Platform Support and System Requirements

SMS 2003 Requirements:

• At least one fully functional Windows client. Before you introduce QMX for SMS to your environment, you must be certain that SMS 2003 is installed and working properly.

• SMS versions supported: 2003 SP1, SP2, R2, and SP3

  Note: If you have SP1 you must also install the SMS2003-SP1-KB894604-X86-ENU Hot Fix Patch; if you have SP2, R2, or SP3, the Hot Fix is unnecessary.

  Note: QMX for SMS 1.6 only supports SLES 9 (x86 and x86_64) with SP3.

• Windows versions supported for Administrator Console: 2000, XP, 2003 Server, 2003 Server R2

• Functioning SMS 2003 Management Point

Microsoft Management Console (MMC) Extensions:

• SMS Administration Console Installed

• 10 MB of available hard disk space

QMX for SMS Client Requirements:

• CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive (for attended installation)

• Minimum system requirements

  • Platform: 400 MHz or higher CPU

  • Memory: 256 MB or more recommended

• Minimum hard drive space requirements for supported operating systems:

Note: Minimum memory requirements for supported operating systems is 256 MB; however, increasing the memory will enhance your overall performance. Quest recommends that you allocate from 512 MB to 1 GB of memory.

Note¹: The minimum allocation for /var/opt/quest should be 100 MB; however, /var will grow as new rules are downloaded and data is collected, etc. Quest recommends that you allocate from 512 MB to 1 GB to the /var file system to assure uninterrupted operations during software distribution.

Note²: You can choose /tmp or another directory of your choice for temporary files. The Client uses the temporary folder during the client installation.

Note³: 64-bit support is in native mode for Intel EM64T and AMD64 architectures. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 for x86-64 requires the compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.33-47.3.x86_64.rpm package which is included on the Red Hat installation media (disk 2).

Note⁴: QMX for SMS supports running inside any VMware virtual machine guest operating system that is one of the supported operating systems.

Note⁵: QMX for SMS 1.6 only supports SLES 9 (x86 and x86_64) with SP3.

Note⁶: The AS, ES and WS variants provided by prior releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux are not available for version 5. Direct replacements for all these products are provided with version 5. (see http://www.redhat.com/rhel/ for more information.)

Note⁷: QMX for SMS 1.6 only supports Novell Linux Desktop (Based SuSE 9) with SP3.

Patch-level Requirements:

Before you begin the installation make sure that you have the latest patches for your operating system version. The following is a list of required patch levels:

• AIX 5.1: Patch Level 9

• HP-UX: Patch PHSS_35379

• HP-UX: Patch PHCO_35732

• Solaris 8: Patch 110934-05 and 110380-04

• Solaris 9 SPARC: Patch 117480 and 113713-04

• Solaris 9 x86: Patch 114568-24

• Solaris 10: Patch 120664

Quest recommends that you keep each platform up to date with the recommended patch set for that platform.

Remote Tools:

You must have an X Server running in order to launch some X-based tools. A Windows-based X Server enables the UI to show the Unix tools on your Windows desktop. Some choices might be StarNet X-Win32 X Window Server, a platform-independent, network-transparent windowing system that provides a client/server interface between display hardware and the desktop environments. Or, you might use Cygwin/XFree86, an open-source implementation of the X Window system. There is also a WRQ Reflection product. However, Quest cannot provide support for any of these third-party products.

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