Basics of satellite installation

A Satellite installation can be a solution for remote sites that do not have a large enough number of potential Managed Servers to justify a full SA Core installation by allowing you to install only the necessary Core Components for the remote site to function as a Satellite.

See Architecture for an introduction to SA Satellites.

Installation summary

The following is an overview of the Satellite installation process.

  1. Locate and mount the Satellite Base Including OS Provisioning media or NFS-mount the directory that contains a copy of the media
  2. Run the SA Installer specifying the Core Definition File (CDF) created during the Primary Core installation. The interview prompts you for information about your Satellite server environment, saves the information in a new Satellite CDF.
  3. [Optional] Re-run the Installer to install SA Provisioning components on the Satellite.