Preparing to install SnapManager

Verifying system requirements

System requirements

To run SnapManager, your host system must meet the following requirements.

Host system requirements	Description
SnapDrive 2.0 or 2.0.1	The host system used to run SnapManager for Domino must meet the hardware and software system requirements for SnapDrive 2.0 or 2.0.1. For details about the following system requirements, see the SnapDrive Installation and Administration Guide appropriate for your version of SnapDrive: Operating system Hardware platform Network For information about remote administration systems that do not require SnapDrive, see SnapManager remote administration.
Operating system	One of the following operating systems is required: Windows 2000 Server with Service Pack 2 or Service Pack 3 Windows 2000 Advanced Server with Service Pack 2 or Service Pack 3 It is recommended that Post-SP2 hot fix 306185 be applied to machines running SnapDrive on Windows 2000 with Service Pack 2 applied. Read the Microsoft Q article 306185 at http://www.microsoft.com for information about the required registry change for this hot fix. The registry change must also be applied for Windows 2000 Service Pack 3.
Lotus Domino server	SnapManager for Lotus Domino supports Lotus Domino 5.0.11 and 6.0.1.

Host system requirements

Description

SnapDrive 2.0 or 2.0.1

The host system used to run SnapManager for Domino must meet the hardware and software system requirements for SnapDrive 2.0 or 2.0.1.

For details about the following system requirements, see the SnapDrive Installation and Administration Guide appropriate for your version of SnapDrive:

Operating system
Hardware platform
Network

For information about remote administration systems that do not require SnapDrive, see SnapManager remote administration.

Operating system

One of the following operating systems is required:

Windows 2000 Server with Service Pack 2 or Service Pack 3
Windows 2000 Advanced Server with Service Pack 2 or Service Pack 3

It is recommended that Post-SP2 hot fix 306185 be applied to machines running SnapDrive on Windows 2000 with Service Pack 2 applied. Read the Microsoft Q article 306185 at http://www.microsoft.com for information about the required registry change for this hot fix. The registry change must also be applied for Windows 2000 Service Pack 3.

Lotus Domino server

SnapManager for Lotus Domino supports Lotus Domino 5.0.11 and 6.0.1.

Requirements for a remote administration

To run remote administration, your remote Windows system must meet the following requirements:

SnapManager must be installed.
Note
You need to install, but not configure, SnapManager. Use the same account you use for access from the production server for the account to be used for access to the filer.
Lotus Notes must be installed on the remote system.
The appropriate virtual disk driver must be installed.
Caution
Do not try to connect the Domino server's virtual disks to the remote verification server.

Things to remember

If, for some reason, you have trouble setting up your remote administration server, check the following:

The DNS server is consistent. If the DNS server is not consistent, try using the server's IP address in place of the remote server's hostname.
Make sure that the Domino server services have started on the remote server.

Filer license requirements

The following requirements must be met in order to run SnapManager.

The filer must have either the VLD or FCP license enabled, depending on which protocol you are using for your virtual disks.
SnapRestore^TM must be licensed on the filer.

Account requirements

To run SnapManager, the SnapManager user account that the SnapManager service runs under must have administrative access on the Domino server. This is usually addressed by making the user a member of the administrator's group. For convenience, this account can be the same one that SnapDrive runs under.

Note
A filer administrator must perform and verify the configuration.