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Preparing for Installation

The manual installation process of the Moab HPC Suite includes installing the separate components in the suite. This guide contains detailed instructions for installing each component.

Many individual components have dependencies on other components (see Requirements). However, if you do not require a certain component (Moab Web Services, for example), you do not have to install it.

The install instructions for each component include information about system requirements and dependencies. Some include prerequisite instructions that you will need to complete before you begin the install. Please read this information carefully, and make sure you have installed all the dependencies and packages that are necessary in order to avoid errors during the Moab HPC Suite install process.

Because many system-level files and directories are accessed during the installation, the instructions in this guide should be executed with root privileges.

You will see that the instructions execute commands as the root user. Please note that the same commands will work for a non-root user with the sudo command.

Enable Extra Packages for the Repository

Many individual components have dependencies that are found in the optional add-on repositories for the distribution. You must enable the respective repository for your distribution on all hosts upon which you install Adaptive Computing software components.

RHEL, CentOS, and Scientific Linux:

[root]# rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

SLES:
1. Verify that you have a licensed installation of SLES 11.
2. Download the SuSE Linux Enterprise 11 Software Development Kit e-Media Kit and add the ISO to the repository.

Install the Moab HPC Suite Software Components

To install the Moab HPC Suite, install the packages in the following order:

Install TORQUE (see Installing TORQUE).
Install Moab Workload Manager (see Installing Moab Workload Manager).
Install Moab Web Services (see Installing Moab Web Services).

Once you have finished installing the Moab HPC Suite and Moab is running, you can perform an RPM-based installation of the optional Insight and Viewpoint components.