To install the ZMC, you must first download Amanda Enterprise Edition with the Zmanda Management Console. Packages for all Zmanda products are available from the Zmanda network downloads page. The Amanda Enterprise Edition with ZMC package includes:
Note that browser access to the ZMC requires IE 6 or greater on Windows and Firefox 3.0 or greater on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Other browsers may work, but are not exhaustively tested.
If you are installing Amanda Enterprise 3.0 on the same machine as a Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL server, you must restart the ZRM processes as described here.
To upgrade from Amanda enterprise version 2.6.4, you must uninstall the old installation and run the version 3.0 installer. Uninstalling the old release while saving the configuration files is the only way to preserve the backup sets you created in the old release; Amanda Enterprise 3.0 cannot directly process backup sets created in older versions of the product. This upgrade procedure only migrates backup set configurations created with the Zmanda Management Console. If you have manually edited Amanda configuration files that need to be preserved, please contact the Zmanda Support Team for assistance.
If you exit the upgrade by clicking No, the installer exits without changing the current installation. If you click Yes to continue with the upgrade, the installer proceeds with the upgrade after you have accepted the License Agreement and have been warned about installing a non-supported distribution.
You are also given the option to retain existing log files, which we recommend that you keep. If the existing files are overwritten, the ZMC will re-fetch Alerts received from Zmanda Network even though the User may have already seen them.
After installation,
You must uninstall the 2.6.4 32-bit client before installing the 3.0 64-bit version. Uninstalling the 2.6.4 32-bit version is only required if you are upgrading to the 64-bit version of Amanda Enterprise 3.0 client software.
After you have used the Rapid Installer (see below) to successfully install Amanda Enterprise 3.0, there are two additional steps to make such an installation work:
After you have purchased a base license and any feature licenses (such as application module licenses), the Zmanda Network Downloads page will include an option to download a license key (zmanda_license). Download this file to the /etc/zmanda directory on the Amanda Enterprise server, then make sure that the file permissions are set to 644 and owner is root.
For installation using a method other than the Rapid Installer, please see the sections that follow.
1. Copy the Rapid Installer binary file to the host where the given component will be installed.
2. Log in to the host as the superuser.
3. Make sure that the Rapid Installer binary file (it may have .bin extension also) is executable. For example:
# chmod +x amanda-enterprise-2.6.4-installer.bin
4. Run the installer by double-clicking on it, or enter the following command line:
# ./amanda-enterprise-2.6.4-installer.bin
5. The Rapid Installer then starts. Follow the on-screen instructions.
Important Note: When prompted to choose the Zmanda Web Server protocol, we strongly recommend that you choose https for security reasons. Even if you choose http for browser/ZMC communication, the ZMC still requires HTTPS for internal communication purposes, and will therefore prompt you for an SSL port during installation in all cases.
Note: The installer performs several tasks after creating and populating the Zmanda directories. These are completed after the progress bar (which only tracks the archive extraction) shows 100% completion. These tasks take time. Please wait till they complete.
6. After the Amanda Enterprise binaries have been extracted and installed, the Zmanda Management Console is launched and the readme file is displayed. The readme file includes the default Zmanda Management Console username and password. You can now login to the console using any supported browser and begin configuring backup sets.
Run the installer with the --help option to see what command line parameters are available.
Important Note to Customers of ZRM for MySQL: Before running the uninstall script for Amanda Enterprise, you must first stop the ZRM for MySQL services from running (enter /etc/init.d/zrm_zrm_init stop as root), then restart it manually after the uninstall script completes (/etc/init.d/zrm_zrm_init start).
You can uninstall Amanda Enterprise by running the uninstall script located at /opt/zmanda/amanda/uninstall on the backup server. Using this script, you can remove the Amanda Enterprise binaries, with the option of leaving configuration files intact. Follow the on-screen instructions after running the script.
The uninstaller program does not remove the backup scheduled in the crontab. They will have to be removed manually.