Dell PowerConnect W-AirWave | User Guide Installing and Getting Started in AirWave | 17Chapter 2Installing and Getting Started inAirWaveThis chapter contains information and procedures for installing and launching AirWave, and includes thefollowing topics: “AirWave Hardware Requirements and Installation Media” on page 17 “Installing Linux CentOS 5 (Phase 1)” on page 17 “Installing AirWave Software (Phase 2)” on page 18 “Configuring and Mapping Port Usage for AMP” on page 21 “AirWave Navigation Basics” on page 22 “Getting Started with AirWave” on page 27AirWave Hardware Requirements and Installation MediaThe AirWave installation disk image includes all software (including the Linux OS) required to complete theinstallation of AirWave. AirWave supports any hardware that is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 certified. By default,all installs are based on a 64-bit operating system.AirWave hardware requirements vary by version and managed devices. As additional features and devices areadded to AirWave, increased hardware resources become necessary. For the most recent hardware requirements,refer to the Dell PowerConnect W-AirWave Server Sizing Guide at support.dell.com/manuals.AirWave is intended to operate as a soft appliance. Other applications should not run on the same installation.Additionally, local shell users can access data on AirWave, so it is important to restrict access to the shell only toauthorized users.You can create sudo users in place of root for companies that don't allow root logins.Installing Linux CentOS 5 (Phase 1)Perform the following steps to install the Linux CentOS 5 operating system. The Linux installation is aprerequisite to installing AirWave on the network management system.1. Insert the AirWave installation CD-ROM into the drive and boot the server.2. If this is a new installation of the AirWave software, type install and press Enter.To configure the partitions manually, type expert and press Enter.The following message appears on the screen:Welcome to AMP Installer Phase I- To install a new AMP, type install .WARNING: This will ERASE all data on your hard drive.NOTE: AirWave does not support downgrading to older versions of AMP. Significant data could be lost or compromised in such adowngrade. In unusual circumstances requiring that you return to an earlier version of AMP, we recommend you perform a freshinstallation of the earlier AMP version, and then restore data from a pre-upgrade backup.CAUTION: This procedure erases the hard drive(s) on the server.
