Installation of ZMC

Download

• Download Amanda enterprise edition with Zmanda Management Console.
  • Amanda enterprise edition with ZMC packages are available in the Zmanda network downloads page.
• Amanda enterprise edition with ZMC package contains Amanda enterprise server, Amanda enterprise client, Zmanda Management Console and dependencies for Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution and Suse Linux Enterprise distributions.
• Amanda enterprise edition with ZMC is supported on RHEL3, RHEL4, RHEL5, , Cent OS 3, Cent OS 4, Cent OS 5, Fedora Core 3, Fedora Core 4, Fedora Core 5, Fedora Core 6, SLES9 and SLES10 platforms.
  • There is one common binary for all these platforms
  • Amanda enterprise edition with ZMC is installed on the backup server and it supports Amanda enterprise 2.6.1, 2.6 and 2.5.1 Update 1 clients.

**For all other distributions and Amanda clients, download rpm packages or client packages from the Zmanda network downloads page.

Upgrade from Amanda enterprise 2.6

• When users are upgrading from Amanda enterprise version 2.6, they need to click start the installation as usual ( described in detail in the next section.)
• The software auto-detects that a version of Amanda enterprise is already installed. At the moment it does not detect whether the existing version is same as the new version or older to it.This is being fixed.
• Users then get an option to upgrade the installation.

• If, for some reason, users decline to upgrade at that moment, the Installer gracefully quits without disturbing the existing setup.
• If users go ahead with the upgrade, the process is automatic requiring least intervention by the user.
• The user intervention is the license acceptance and a confirmation that the user wants to install on a non supported distribution, if that is the case.
• Once the upgrade has been accepted and started, canceling it will make the old installation invalid.
  • When users will try to access it via the browser, it will give an error that it cannot reach the localhost.
  • Restart the upgrade and complete it for the application to work properly.

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Pre-installation tasks

Begin Installation

1.Copy the Amanda Rapid Installer binary file to the host where users want to install ZMC and Amanda server.
2.Login in to the host as superuser.
3.Make sure that the installer binary is executable:

  # chmod +x amandaenterprise-2.6.1-installer.bin 

4.Run the installer by double-clicking on it or invoke it on the command line

  #  ./amandaenterprise-2.6.1-installer.bin

6. A GUI based installer will start the process of installation.
7. Please follow the on-screen instructions.

• NB: The installer does several tasks after creating and populating various directories. This is done after its progress bar (which tracks unpacking of the archive) has shown 100% completion.
• These tasks take time. Please wait till they complete.

• Installer package includes Amanda enterprise edition 2.6.1 server and client for all supported distributions, Zmanda Management Console, MySQL, PHP, Apache, PHPmyadmin, Perl and various perl modules and their dependencies.
• Version 2.6.1 also includes ZMC my.cnf file for MySQL database.
• Procedure to change the default values in the my.cnf file is given later.

• The Installer follows the steps given below.
• Users already familiar with the steps, can jump forward to the next section.

8. For installation in certain other modes, please see sections that follow.

9. The Installer will install Amanda version 2.6.1 or higher on the system.

• ZMC directories will be installed in the path /opt/zmc
• The Installer will create all the necessary subdirectories automatically.

Installer Steps

Post Installation

10. On completion of installation:
A: ZMC will be launched.
B: Read Me.txt will display text containing late breaking news in a separate window.
C: ZMC does not change any previous Amanda Configuration files that exist on that Server.
D: Un-installation is enabled.
While un-installing, the Backup Set Configurations created by a user will be left intact.
When a user re-installs ZMC on a different host, a user can copy them there.

• ZMC has created a user 'amandabackup' on the server.

Alternate Installation Modes

Additional Command line parameters

• Invoke the installer with the --help command line option to see Additional Command line parameters.

Amanda Enterprise 2.6.1 Usage:

--help  Display the list of valid options

--version Display product information

--optionfile <optionfile> Installation option file
  Default:

--mode <mode> Installation mode
 Default:
 Allowed: gtk xwindow text unattended

--debugtrace <debugtrace>      Debug filename
  Default:

--apache_port <apache_port>    ZMC Web Server port
  Default: 80

--mysql_port <mysql_port>      ZMC MySQL Server port
  Default: 3306

--mysql_password <mysql_password> ZMC MySQL Server root password
  Default:

--phpmyadminpasswd <phpmyadminpasswd> Password
  Default:

Examples of Changes in Defaults

 #./amandaenterprise-2.6.1-installer.bin --mysql_port 3333 --apache_port 8888

Listen 8888

 Contents:

 [client]
 port = 3306
 socket = /opt/zmc/mysql/tmp/mysql.sock

 [mysql]
 port = 3306

 [mysqld]
 port = 3306
 basedir = /opt/zmc/mysql/
 datadir = /opt/zmc/mysql/data/
 socket = /opt/zmc/mysql/tmp/mysql.sock
 pid-file = /opt/zmc/mysql/data/mysqld.pid

port = 2222