Prerequisite for HP Vertica Management Console Instalation
In this tutorial we will see what are the prerequisite that needs to be fulfilled in order for us to install HP Vertica Management Console.
HP Vertica Management Console Supported Operating Systems
-all bellow must be 64-bit operating systems on x86_x64 architecture
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.0 through 6.5
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.0 through 11.0 SP3
-when using SUSE you need to install the unixODBC driver manager. unixODBC provides needed libraries libodbc and lidodbcinst.
Oracle Enterprise Linux 6 - Red Hat Compatible Kernel only - HP Vertica does not support the
unbreakable kernel (kernels with a uel suffix)
Debian Linux 6 and 7.0 through 7.5
Cent OS 5 and 6.0 through 6.5
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and 14.04 LTS
HP Vertica Server and Management Console Compatibility
Important to know that each version of Vertica Analytic Database Management Console is compatible only with the matching version of the Vertica Analytic Database server.
Example:
Vertica Analytic Database 7.1 -->> Vertica Analytic Database 7.1 Management Console
Firewall Considerations
22 TCP sshd Required by Administration Tools and the Management Console Cluster Installation wizard.
5444 TCP HP Vertica Management Console MC-to-node and node-to-node (agent) communications port.
5450 TCP HP Vertica Management Console Port used to connect to MC from a web browser and allows communication from nodes to the MC application/web server.
IP Address Requirements
The MC Server must be accessible to all HP Vertica Nodes.
Disk Space Requirements
There is no right amount of space that is required for the Vertica MC, i usually give it 200GB so i can manage a 7 days backup of the entire infrastructure on disk. But this depends on the number of targets/nodes you monitor.
File Permission Requirements
It must have at least read/write privileges on any files you plan to upload to MC through the Cluster Installation Wizard. These files include the HP Vertica server package, the license key (if needed), the private key file, and an optional CSV file of IP addresses.
