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The prerequisites for installing Multiple Device Manager (MDM) on a Linux operating system are listed in the following sections. Verify that all requirements are met before you install MDM.

MDM installation prerequisites

Table 7 lists the MDM installation prerequisites.

Table 7. MDM installation prerequisites
Operating system
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1 Intel x86
Hardware
  • 1 GHz Intel Pentium III or faster
  • 1 GB RAM minimum; 2 GB RAM recommended
  • Ethernet or token-ring card
  • CD-ROM drive
  • Network connectivity
    Note:Note: External Internet connectivity is not required to install MDM.
  • (Optional) If you are installing Tivoli Storage Area Network Manager, connectivity to the SAN fabric using a fibre-channel, host bus adapter
Disk space 4 GB of free disk space for the prerequisite software and future storage data
Attention: Attention: If you use Enterprise Storage Server (ESS) Expert, note that MDM and Expert cannot coexist on the same server. You need to install MDM on a separate server from Expert.
LIC and CIM Agent prerequisites

Table 8 lists the MDM Managed I/O Subsystem Licensed Internal Code (LIC) and CIM Agent prerequisites.

Table 8. MDM Managed I/O Subsystem LIC and CIM Agent prerequisites
MDM Managed I/O Subsystem Minimum Licensed Internal Code (LIC) CIM Agent code levels
Enterprise Storage Server LIC 2.63
CIM Agent for ESS 1.2.0.28
ESS CLI 2.3.0.19
SAN Volume Controller LIC 1.2.0.0 SAN Volume Controller Console 1.2.0.2
FAStT
600, 700, and 900
(8.3 microcode)
LSI Provider 1.0.2
Brocade switches Microcode 2.1 or higher
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