The SM can be installed on the following platforms:
1) Solaris-SUN SPARC machine running Solaris.
2) Linux-Machine with Intel-based processor running Red Hat Linux. 

Minimal Hardware Requirements:
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1) CPU - SUN SPARC, Minimum 500MHz for Solaris, or INTEL processor, Minimum 1GHz for Linux.

2) RAM - Minimum 1GB. RAM Requirements are derived from the maximum number of subscribers the SM should hold. 
	See the SM User Guide for details
	
3) Disk Space: 
	Minimum 3GB total of which:
	Minimum 1 GB free on partition where VARDIR (SM database repository) is installed.
	Minimum 0.5 GB free on partition where PCUBEDIR (SM files) is installed.
	Minimum 200 MB free on partition where /tmp is mounted
	
4) Network Interfaces: 
	One 100BASE-T Ethernet for non-cluster installations, or Six 100BASE-T Ethernet for cluster installations.
	

Minimum Software Requirements for Solaris:
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1) Solaris 5.8 64bit build 04/01 and up (currently only Solaris 5.8/5.9/5.10 is supported).

2) Solaris Core Installation.

3) The following additional packages should be installed:

    system      SUNWbash       GNU Bourne-Again shell (bash)
    system      SUNWgzip       The GNU Zip (gzip) compression utility
    system      SUNWzip        The Info-Zip (zip) compression utility
    system      SUNWlibC       Sun Workshop Compilers Bundled libC
    system      SUNWlibCx      Sun WorkShop Bundled 64-bit libC

   Optionally the following package may be installed (for sysadmin applications
   such as sys-unconfig)
    
    system      SUNWadmap      System administration applications
    system      SUNWadmc       System administration core libraries

4) Latest recommended patches from SUN should be applied
    See http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=patches/xos-8&nav=pub-patches for Solaris8, and
    http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=patches/xos-9&nav=pub-patches for Solaris9.


Minimum Software Requirements for Red-Hat Linux:
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1) Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES 3.0/4.0.

2) Redhat Enterprise "Base" Installation.

3) The following additional packages should be installed:

	GNU Bourne-Again shell (bash-2.05b-29.i386.rpm)
	GNU Data Compression Program (gzip-1.3.3-9.i386.rpm)
	File compression and packaging utility (zip-2.3-16.i386.rpm)
	Standard C++ libraries for Red Hat Linux 6.2 backward compatibility (compat-gcc-7.3-2.96.122.i386.rpm)
	Superuser-do utility (sudo-1.6.7p5-1.1.i386.rpm)
	




