To begin the installation process of AR, you must meet the minimum requirements based on the type of install you are performing. You can perform three types of installs. You can perform a full install, which installs AR as well as the command-line interface (CLI) that is used to configure AR. You can do a server-only install, and this would indicate that you want to manage AR from another machine. The other machine that you want to access AR from would then require a CLI-only install. This would place the CLI known as aregcmd on the machine, and not the server components. For a full install, you must meet the requirements in Table 14-1:
For the installation of the AR server only, you must meet the system requirements in Table 14-2:
For the AR CLI-only installation, you must meet the requirements in Table 14-3:
Of these requirements, the recommended disk space does not take into consideration the accounting records. You should provide enough disk space to adequately provide for this. To determine the amount of disk space needed, you should determine the size of each accounting file that will be stored locally on AR and multiply that figure by the number of accounting records you plan to keep. This will give you a ballpark estimate. It is also recommended that AR be the only server service provided by this machine. You might choose to run collaborative servers such as an Oracle or SQL database system, an LDAP server, or another Solaris application. No known conflicts with any other Solaris applications exist. You can also configure AR to avoid User Datagram Protocol (UDP) port conflicts with other network management applications. AR listens on UDP ports 1645 and 1646 for RADIUS request and TCP ports 2785 and 2786 for the CLI aregcmd. If you are using the CLI on another machine to configure your server, these TCP ports should not be used. You can configure AR to use non-default ports for RADIUS by performing the following configuration:
You can refer to the Cisco Documentation online for more information. NOTE Also, Cisco provides the Sun Cisco Optimized Platform Recommended Part Numbers to help find the right hardware to install AR on. Refer to the Cisco website for more information. |