ZLM7 pre requirements

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ZENworks Linux Management Pre-requisites

The Primary and Secondary ZLM7 server will only install to a 32 bit Intel platform.

There are no plans to add Itanium, Power, IBM z-, i- or p- series support.

Make sure you spec the server well for a POC or live deployment. The documentation (http://www.novell.com/documentation/zenworks7/lm7install/data/bx8k2mb.html) claims a minimum of a Pentium III with 256 MB RAM..

My recommendation:

ZLM 7 is only supported on a clean SLES 9 SP1/SP2 server.

This means SLES 9. Not Open Enterprise Server (eDirectory clashes), not Red Hat Enterprise Linux (not supported), not SUSE Linux 10 (not supported).

Also re-read the hardware support above.

If you plan to install zlm7 into a SLES 9 minimal (No X), you have to have this packages installed:

Minimal system (no X)

  * + glib2
  * + gettext
  * + python
  * + XFree86-libs

The installation requires glib2.

Make sure you select it during your SLES 9 installation (or as part of your AutoYaST scripts)

I also include gettext and a few other favourites (nice text editor etc).