Cisco Prime Infrastructure Operating System

[Todd Kelly]

I need some help here. I know that Prime Infrasturcture virtual appliance deployments are ESX and ESXi, but do I need to have Red Hat Linux Enterprise Server 5.4 64-bit also? This is getting confusing.

Thanks.

Todd Kelly

[Seth Bjorn]

No, the redhat is already packaged by Cisco. When you deploy the appliance it will come with Redhat and the application installed. All you will need to do is give it IP address, passwords, etc.

[Marvin Rhoads]

Like Seth said it's all included in the ova distributions. Both PI and Prime LMS ova's bundle Cisco's "ADE-OS" Application Development Environment Operating System - a RHEL build.

PI doesn't let you access the root shell but here's exactly what's included in LMS, for example:

[SecLab-LMS/root-ade ~]# uname -a

Linux SecLab-LMS 2.6.18-238.1.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Jan 4 13:32:19 EST 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[SecLab-LMS/root-ade ~]#

[SecLab-LMS/root-ade ~]# cat /etc/*-release

##############CARS build log for cars20-rhel-x86_64##############

Date: Mon Feb 28 20:06:05 PST 2011

Builder: pmbure

Project: cars20-rhel-x86_64

Branch: trunk

Build Version: 2.0.1.021

Build Server: aons-build5

Destination: /auto/johann/linux/kickstarts/cars20-rhel-x86_64//CARS_2.0.1.021_cars20-rhel-x86_64_022811_2006/2.0.1.021

Log File: /auto/johann/linux/kickstarts/cars20-rhel-x86_64//logs/CARS_2.0.1.021_cars20-rhel-x86_64_022811_2006.log

Local Arch: x86_64

Distro Vendor: rhel

Using master kickstart import file: /auto/perseus/BRANCHES/meta/trunk/ks_import_rhel_x86_64.cfg

Partitioning scheme: /auto/perseus/etc/templates/smos30.part

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.4 (Tikanga)

[SecLab-LMS/root-ade ~]#