Prerequisites for adding hosts and installing SnapCenter Custom Plug-ins

• You must have created a custom plug-in. For details, see the developer information.

  Developer Guide for Creating Custom Plug-ins

• If you want to manage MySQL or DB2 applications, you must have downloaded the MySQL and DB2 Custom Plug-ins that are provided by NetApp.
• You must have installed Java 1.8, 64-bit on your Linux or Windows host.
• When installing a plug-in on a Windows host, if you specify a credential that is not built-in, or if the user belongs to a local workgroup user, you must disable UAC on the host.
• The Custom Plug-ins must be available on the client host from where the add host operation is performed.

General

If you are using iSCSI, the iSCSI service must be running.

Windows hosts

• You must have a domain user with local administrator privileges with local login permissions on the remote host.
• If you manage cluster nodes in SnapCenter, you must have a user with administrative privileges to all the nodes in the cluster.

Linux hosts

• You must have enabled the password-based SSH connection for the root or non-root user.
• You must have installed Java 1.8 64-bit, on your Linux host.

  If you are using Windows 2016 for the SnapCenter Server host, you must install Java 1.8, 64-bit. The Interoperability Matrix Tool (IMT) contains the latest information about requirements.

  Java Downloads for All Operating Systems

  NetApp Interoperability Matrix Tool

• You must configure sudo privileges for the non-root user to provide access to several paths. Add the following lines to the /etc/sudoers file by using the visudo Linux utility. For example,

  Cmnd_Alias SCCMD = /opt/NetApp/snapcenter/scc/bin/scc <non_root_user> ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:SETENV: SCCMD 

  non_root_user is the name of the non-root user that you created.

• You should always have read/write permission for the /tmp folder on the plug-in host.