Installation directory structure

The installation directory structure is shown in Installation directory structure. All VMware Smart Assurance products use the same basic installation directory structure.

In Installation directory structure, notice that:

• BASEDIR, which is not an environment variable, is used in documentation to represent the top-level directory structure of an VMware Smart Assurance product software installation.

  For UNIX, this location is /opt/InCharge/<product>.

  BASEDIR represents:

  • For MPLS Management Suite —<installation_root_directory>/MPLS

  • For IP Manager — <installation_root_directory>/IP

  • For Service Assurance Manager — <installation_root_directory>/SAM

  • For Server Manager — <installation_root_directory>/ESM

  • For Network Protocol Management Suite — <installation_root_directory>/NPM

    By default, VMware Smart Assurance software is installed to BASEDIR/smarts.

    Optionally, you can specify the root of BASEDIR to be something different, but you cannot change the <product> location under the root directory.

• The VMware Smart Assurance sm_edit utility ensures that modified files are always saved to the appropriate local area and that base (original) copies of the files remain unchanged. Appendix A, “The sm_edit utility,” provides additional information.

  The VMware Smart Assurance System Administration Guide provides detailed information about the directory structure for VMware Smart Assurance software and the sm_edit utility.

  Figure 1.