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Preface
Zenoss Service Dynamics Resource Manager Installation provides detailed information and procedures you will use
to install and upgrade Resource Manager for your environment.
1. Audience
This guide is designed for administrators who will install and update Resource Manager.
Those installing the system should be comfortable with Linux administration, as well as networking protocols and
concepts (such as SNMP and SSH). More advanced server administration skills may be required for highly available,
complex, or large deployments.
2. Organization
This guide is organized into these chapters:
• Chapter 1, "Installation Considerations," presents information about operating system and hardware requirements,
as well as other special considerations, you should review before beginning installation.
• Chapter 2, "Installing Resource Manager," provides procedures for installing Resource Manager on a system running
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or Community ENTerprise Operating System (CentOS), versions 5 or 6.
• Chapter 3, "Adding a collector," provides detailed installation procedures for configuring a collector host.
• Chapter 4, "Installing a hub," provides detailed installation procedures for configuring a hub host.
• Chapter 5, "Performance Tuning," offers information and procedures to help you optimize Resource Manager per-
formance in your environment.
• Chapters 6, 7, 8, and 9 provide procedures for upgrading your current version of Resource Manager to this release.
• Appendix A, "Upgrading RabbitMQ Server," details procedures for upgrading RabbitMQ Server in certain non-
standard conditions.
• Appendix B, "Port requirements," details the ports used by various components of Resource Manager.
3. Related guides
The Zenoss Service Dynamics documentation set includes these guides:
Table 1. Zenoss Service Dynamics Guides
Title Description
Zenoss Service Dynamics Resource Manager Administra-
tion
Provides an overview of Resource Manager architecture
and features, as well as procedures and examples to help
use the system.
Zenoss Service Dynamics Resource Manager Installation Provides detailed information and procedures for in-
stalling and upgrading the system.
Zenoss Service Dynamics Analytics Installation and Ad-
ministration
Provides conceptual and procedural information to help
you install and use Analytics.
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