Before adding a Novell OES Linux asset to the Unitrends appliance, you must install an agent.
Once the agent is installed, you can update to a newer agent version using these same installation procedures. It is not necessary to remove the old agent. If an agent is already installed, you have the option to save any custom agent settings during installation.
Use these procedures to install or update the Novell OES Linux agent:
The Unitrends agent for Open Enterprise Server (OES) enables you to backup and restore OES data.
Before installing a Novell OES Linux agent:
• | Make sure your Novell OES Linux system and its applications are running supported versions listed in the Unitrends Compatibility and Interoperability Matrix. |
• | Add the Unitrends appliance name to the local host table or set up the TCP/IP system to use DNS with the Unitrends appliance. |
• | To install on a 64-bit OES system, the 32-bit runtime environment must be enabled (this is the default configuration). |
The following restrictions apply to the Novell OES Linux agent:
• | Recovering individual files and folders from a backup copy is not supported. Only full backups can be recovered from a backup copy when restoring a TSA-based backup. |
• | Xen is supported only when it is running on OES 2 on SUSE Linux Enterprise 10. |
• | Hot bare metal is not supported for OES 2 on SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 and 11. |
• | Bare metal of Xen guest operating systems can be performed only if VT/AMD-V is supported by the host server’s CPU and this support is enabled in BIOS. |
• | If a network mount is mounted on a directory with the same name as seen on the Novell OES Linux machine, then the backups can have difficulty traversing that file system. For example, if server1:\data is mounted to \data, this presents a problem. The mount point should use a different name, such as server1:\data mounted to \netdata. This is a known issue with TSAFS. |
1 | Log in to the Novell OES Linux machine as user root. |
2 | Verify that the novell-sms package is running on the OES system by entering the following command: |
# service novell-smdrd status
3 | If the service is not running, enter the following command: |
# service novell-smdrd start
4 | Place the agent installation file, oes_cnt, on the OES system. (Download the agent from the Latest Agent Releases page on the Unitrends website.) |
5 | Grant execute permission to the file by running the following command: |
# chmod +x oes_cnt
6 | Begin the installation by executing the file: |
# .\oes_cnt
7 | Enter y to continue the installation and press Enter to continue. |
8 | Press Enter to accept the default installation directory (\usr\bp) or enter the full path where you prefer the software be installed. Respond with a y when asked if the directory can be created. |
9 | (Optional) Enter an email address to receive reports from the OES system. |
10 | Enter the hostname of the backup appliance. |
11 | You are asked if your server is behind a firewall. Answer yes or no. Answering yes forces communication over port 1745. |
12 | Select Enter to approve default port and autoexec settings. |
13 | After the connection is made to the TSA, enter the user name (root) and password as prompted. This enables SMS-TSA based backups. |
Note: Backup and restore speeds are limited by the TSAFS performance. The TSAFS performance on an NSS file system is superior to performance on a non-NSS file system by as much as 300%. For more information on improving the TSAFS performance, refer to the following Novell document, Fine-Tuning SMS Performance.
The agent is installed and you are ready to add your Novell OES Linux asset to the Unitrends appliance. For details, see To add an asset.