System Requirements - Media Explorer

The following requirements are for Media Explorer:

Operating System

Processor

Unix

AIX

AIX 5.2 32-bit and 64-bit with technology level 10 (or higher) and runtime library xlC.rte 8.0.0.0 or higher

AIX 5.3 32-bit and 64-bit with technology level 6 (or higher) and runtime library xlC.rte 8.0.0.0 or higher

AIX 6.1 64-bit

 Power PC RISC

HP-UX

HP-UX 11.00 32-bit and 64-bit with OS patch PHCO26960 (contact Hewlett Packard to obtain the patch)

HP-UX 11.11 32-bit and 64-bit with OS patch PHCO29328 (contact Hewlett Packard to obtain the patch)

HP-UX 11.23 64-bit

PA RISC

Linux

Red Hat Linux AS 2.1 32-bit with kernel RH 2.4.9-e.3 and glibc 2.2.4-26		 Intel Pentium or compatible minimum required

Solaris

Solaris 7 32-bit and 64-bit with Service Packs 106300-17, 106327-16 and 106950-21

Solaris 8 32-bit and 64-bit with Service Packs 108434-09, 108435-09, and 109147-20

Solaris 9 32-bit and 64-bit with Service Packs 111711-02 and 111712-02

Solaris 10 64-bit		 Sun Sparc5 or higher recommended

Tru64

Tru64 OSF1 Release 5.1B-3

Tru64 OSF1 Release 5.1B-4

Compaq® (DEC) AlphaServer DS Series computer or higher recommended

NetWare

 NetWare 6.0 with Support Pack 5 Intel Pentium or compatible minimum required
  Media Explorer is installed on a NetWare server using a Novell client computer with Novell Client 4.9 on one of the following operating systems:

Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 2, 3 or 4

Microsoft Windows 2000 Server with Service Pack 2, 3 or 4

Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server with Service Pack 2, 3 or 4

Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 32-bit Edition up to Service Pack 1

Windows

Windows 2000

Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 2, 3 or 4

Microsoft Windows 2000 Server with Service Pack 2, 3 or 4

Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server with Service Pack 2, 3 or 4

Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server

 Intel Pentium or compatible minimum required

Windows XP

Microsoft Windows XP Professional 32-bit Edition with Service Pack 1 or 2		 Intel Pentium or compatible minimum required
Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition* with Service Pack 2 or higher x64

Windows Server 2003

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard 32-bit Edition up to Service Pack 1

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 32-bit Edition up to Service Pack 1

 Intel Pentium or compatible minimum required
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard x64* Edition up to Service Pack 1

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64* Edition up to Service Pack 1

 x64
* Media Explorer is a 32-bit component that can be installed on x64 platform.

Hard Disk

50 MB of additional hard disk space for the Media Explorer installation files and log growth

Sufficient space for the Catalog database (based on your cataloging needs)

Sufficient space for the data you want to recover

Peripherals

DVD-ROM drive

Network Interface Card

Miscellaneous

Media Explorer must be installed on a computer that has the same operating system as that of the client for which the data was backed up.

The appropriate application software (e.g., Oracle, Lotus Notes, etc.) must be installed on the client computer for which the data is being recovered.

  • Note that an Exchange database may be restored to a computer other than the computer from which the data originated and subsequently copied back to the Exchange Server provided the data has not changed and the appropriate commands are executed.

The following media requirements apply:

  • All necessary tape, optical, and magnetic media volumes required to complete the data recovery operation must be available.
  • For tape and optical libraries, the correct drivers must be loaded.

    For HP-UX and Tru64 platforms, system drivers are used for the appropriate tape libraries.

  • Direct physical access to the media device must be available. (i.e., a locally attached tape library/drive tapes, or a mapped local drive on which magnetic library archives are stored)
  • For NetWare recovery scenarios, both the NetWare server and Novell client computer running Media Explorer must have dedicated tape drives attached.

    Note that a single tape drive may be shared between the NetWare server and Novell client computer as long as the drive is alternated between the two computers as appropriate.

  • For data stored on magnetic volumes using a NetWare or Unix MediaAgent, a separate file transfer tool (such as FTP for Unix) must be use
Note that all of the platforms stated above may not be supported by this Agent. For information on the list of supported platforms, refer to the System Requirements specific to this Agent.

For information on the Agents supported by Media Explorer, see Media Explorer - Support.

.NET Framework 2.0 is automatically installed. Note that .NET Framework 2.0 can co-exist with other versions of this software.

If you have SELinux enabled on the client computer, create the SELinux policy module as a root user before performing a backup. The SELinux Development package must be installed on the client.

To create SELinux policy module, perform the following steps as user "root":

  1. Create the following files in the /usr/share/selinux/devel directory:
File Name Content of the file
<directory>/<file_name>.te

where:

<directory> is /usr/share/selinux/devel

<file_name> is the name of the Unix file, created to save the policy module statement. It is a good idea to use the same name for policy module and the file.

For example: When you are creating a policy module for backup_IDA application, you can use the following file name: backup_IDA.te

 

 The content of the file should be as follows:

policy_module(<name>,<version>)

##############################

where:

<name> is the name of the policy module. You can give any unique name to the policy module, such as a process or application name.

<version> is the version of the policy module. It can be any number, such as 1.0.0.

For Example: While creating a policy module for the backup_IDA application, you can use the following content.

policy_module(backup_IDA,1.0.0)
<directory>/<file_name>.fc

where:

<directory> is /usr/share/selinux/devel

<file_name> is the name of the Unix file, created to save the policy module statement. It is a good idea to use the same name for policy module and the file.

For example: When you are creating a policy module for backup_IDA application, you can use the following file name: backup_IDA.fc

 

 The content of the file should be as follows:

Note that the following list of files is not exhaustive. If the process fails to launch, check /var/log/messages. Also, if required, add it to the following list of files.

/opt/<software installation directory>/Base/libCTreeWrapper.so -- gen_context(system_u:object_r:texrel_shlib_t,s0)

/opt/<software installation directory>/Base/libCVMAGuiImplgso -- gen_context(system_u:object_r:texrel_shlib_t,s0)

/opt/<software installation directory>/Base/libdb2locale.so.1 -- gen_context(system_u:object_r:texrel_shlib_t,s0)

/opt/<software installation directory>/Base/libdb2osse.so.1 -- gen_context(system_u:object_r:texrel_shlib_t,s0)

/opt/<software installation directory>/Base/libDb2Sbt.so -- gen_context(system_u:object_r:texrel_shlib_t,s0)

/opt/<software installation directory>/Base/libdb2trcapi.so.1 -- gen_context(system_u:object_r:texrel_shlib_t,s0)

/opt/<software installation directory>/Base/libDrDatabase.so -- gen_context(system_u:object_r:texrel_shlib_t,s0)

/opt/<software installation directory>/Base/libIndexing.so -- gen_context(system_u:object_r:texrel_shlib_t,s0)

/opt/<software installation directory>/Base/libSnooper.so -- gen_context(system_u:object_r:texrel_shlib_t,s0)

 
  1. Create the policy file from command line. Use the following command. Ensure that you give the following commands in the /usr/share/selinux/devel directory.

[root]# make backup_IDA.pp

Compiling targeted backup_IDA module

/usr/bin/checkmodule: loading policy configuration from tmp/backup_IDA.tmp

/usr/bin/checkmodule: policy configuration loaded

/usr/bin/checkmodule: writing binary representation (version 6) to tmp/backup_IDA.mod

Creating targeted backup_IDA.pp policy package

rm tmp/backup_IDA.mod tmp/backup_IDA.mod.fc

[root]# semodule -i backup_IDA.pp

[root]#

  1. Execute the policy module. Use the following command:

[root]# restorecon -R /opt/<software installation directory>

SELinux is now configured to work with this application.