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SysInfoTM Installation

  1. Follow the instructions to Download and unpack a distribution. You can either download complete source and build (compile) from scratch, or you can choose to download a precompiled (binary) distribution. We recommend that you use the binary distributions if there is one available for your platform. You must download the source and compile otherwise. Please note that SysInfo should only be run on the same OS version as it was compiled on. i.e. If compiled on SunOS 5.5, do not run the same binary on 5.6. If you attempt to do this, SysInfo will issue a warning.
  2. Read the RELEASE_NOTES BEFORE proceeding.
  3. If compiling from source:
    1. Read the comments in `Makefile' and make any necessary changes. The defaults should be fine for most sites. You may want to change the PREFIX and/or CONFDIR variables.
    2. Run `make'. Please note the following:
      • You will almost always need to compile SysInfo on EACH version of your operating system (OS).
      • Starting with Solaris 7 and later, you will need two binaries for each version of the OS - one for 32-bit systems and one for 64-bit systems (all Ultra machines are 64-bit). You can check which version you are running by looking at the first line of /etc/motd for the phrase "64-bit".

        To build a binary of SysInfo for a system running a 64-bit kernel, you must have a compatible compiler. Sun Compiler 5.0 is the first Sun compiler to support this via the -xarch=v9 option. At the time this document was written there was no version of GCC which supports 64-bit compiles.

        By default, the make will build a binary that runs on the local system. You can also force make to build a 64-bit binary on a 32-bit system and vice-versa. To build a 64-bit binary on a 32-bit system, set the environment variable KISA to be sparcv9. To build a 32-bit binary on a 64-bit system, set KISA to be sparcv8. i.e. For csh users: 

        	setenv KISA sparcv9
        For sh/ksh users: 
        	KISA=sparcv9
	export KISA

      • Under SunOS 4.x, you must compile SysInfo for each kernel architecture (karch) and each OS version. i.e. "sun4c SunOS 4.1.4", "sun4m SunOS 4.1.4", etc. This is not necessary under SunOS 5.x.
  4. Continue with the following instructions for both source compiles and binary distribution downloads...
  5. Run `make test' to run SysInfo right now as a test. This should be done as `root' in order for SysInfo to function properly.
  6. To install the SysInfo program and all required files, run `make install'. If you are installing a Binary distribution and installed the config files into a non-default location (somewhere other than /var/local/sysinfo/conf), you need to create a file called /etc/sysinfo.cf with the entry: 
    	ConfDir Dir
    where Dir is the directory the *.cf files where installed in.
  7. To install man pages, run `make install.man'.
  8. You may need a license to run SysInfo. Go to http://www.magnicomp.com/sysinfo for more information.