Just a quick update on this old topic :

I tried NMC 7.6.3-1 on CentOS 6.2.
- First I had to restart GST almost each time I wanted to use the console
- After about 2 weeks the database got corrupted.
NMC is now running on one of our NSR clients running CentOS 5.

Valere Binet

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Tim Mooney <Tim.Mooney AT ndsu DOT edu> wrote:

> In regard to: [Networker] Networker 7.6.2 management console with
> Redhat...:
>
>
>  Thanks for all ^^
>> Then if i install Redhat 6.1 i'll be able to install NMC ?
>>
>
> Install?  Yes.  Have a *working* NMC?  Not in my experience.
>
> The Software Compatibility Guide (SCG) appears to currently be
> contradicting itself regarding whether NMC is supported on RHEL 6.0 or 6.1,
> and I've had EMC support contradict the information in the SCG.  When
> there are that many contradictions, it's a sign that there's a problem.
>
> We tried the NMC that came with 7.6.2.3 on RHEL 6.1, and had database
> corruption.  That all went away when we moved the NMC to RHEL 5.7.  It's
> possible that the NMC that comes with 7.6.2.5 has that issue resolved, but
> I've seen no evidence to suggest that.  Unless the release notes for NMC
> specifically mention support for RHEL 6.1 or a fix related to database
> corruption, you will likely run into the same database corruption that we
> did.
>
>
>  Have you ever try it ? it seems i've to install a JRE 32bits to use NMC...
>>
>
> The NMC is only available as a 32 bit package.  Having a 32 bit package
> that requires Java doesn't always mean that you must also have a 32 bit
> Java, but in this case I think that it does require the 32 bit java, as
> there are 32 bit shared objects that are (I think) loaded, probably via
> JNI.
>
> The notes I have in my puppet manifest for NMC indicate that 32 bit
> Java is required, so I think I may have tried the 64 bit Java and
> discovered that it did not work.
>
> My advice: don't install the NMC on RHEL 6.x (any point release of 6)
> until there is clear communication from EMC that NMC works on RHEL 6.
> Put it on a RHEL 5.x system, after doing
>
>        yum --nogpgcheck localinstall lgtoclnt*.rpm
>        yum install java-1.6.0-sun.i686
>        yum downgrade java-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0.26-1jpp.**1.el6.i686
>
> After you have the 1.6.0.26 version of Java installed, be sure to block
> updates to it (add an exclude=java-1.6.0-sun to your yum configuration)
> until EMC has released a fix for the authentication issues that NMC
> has with Java >= 1.6.0.26.
>
> Tim
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