System and Software Requirements

This page documents the system and software requirements for the NetApp Manageability SDK client.

 

System Requirements:

The NetApp Manageability SDK supports the following client platforms:

Operating System

Versions

Windows 32-bit

2000, 2003, 2008

Windows 64-bit (IA64 and X64)

2000, 2003, 2008

Red Hat Linux (32-bit and 64-bit)

AS V4, ES V4, V5, V6

Oracle Enterprise Linux

4.0, 4.8, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7

SUSE Linux (32-bit and 64-bit)

9.0, 10.0, 11.0

Solaris SPARC (32-bit and 64-bit)

10.0

Solaris x86 32-bit

10.0

Solaris x64-bit

10.0

AIX (32-bit and 64-bit)

5.2, 5.3, 6.1

HP-UX PA-RISC 32-bit

11.11 and later

HP-UX 64-bit IA64

B.11.31 and later

VMware ESX server

3.0, 3.5, 4.0

VMware ESXi server

5.0

 

Software Requirements:

The NetApp Manageability SDK supports C, C++, Java, Perl, C#, VB.NET, PowerShell, Python, and Ruby on the client-side. The SDK supports the following software versions:

Language

Software requirements

C, C++

Visual Studio 2005 for Windows.

For debug version, use Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 SP1 8.0.50727.762.

The following compilers are supported on UNIX-like platforms:

  • To compile applications on a 32 bit UNIX-like environment, use GNU Make and GNU C/C++ Compiler.

  • To compile applications on the 64 bit UNIX-like environment, use GNU C/C++ Compiler 3.2 or later.

Java

  • Sun Microsystems Java 1.4, 5.0, 6.0

  • HP-UX Java 1.4, 5.0, 6.0

  • AIX Java 1.4, 5.0, 6.0

Java 5.0 and later support the IPv6 feature

Perl

Perl 5.8, 5.10

On aix-thread-multi, install the "expat" module, which is the XML parser.

C#, VB.NET

Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5

PowerShell

  • PowerShell 1.0

  • Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5

Python

Python 2.4.3, 2.4.4

Python 2.5

Python 2.6.2, and 2.6.6

Python 2.7.1, and 2.7.2

Python 3.1.3, and 3.1.4

Python 3.2.1, and 3.2.2

Ruby

Ruby 1.8.7, 1.9.2

 

To use the Data ONTAP management APIs, storage systems should be running Data ONTAP 6.3 or later.

 

Web services dependency:

To use Web services sample codes, you must have Apache CXF (apache-cxf-2.2.4), and Java 5.0 or later installed on your system.

To compile and execute the Web services sample codes in C#, you must install Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 with C#.

 

Browser support matrix for Help:

The Help system supports the following browsers for different platforms:

Operating system

Browser

Windows

  • Internet Explorer 8.0, 9.0

  • Mozilla Firefox 4.0, 5.0, 6.0

Solaris

Mozilla Firefox 3.0, 3.5

Linux

Mozilla Firefox 3.0, 3.5

IBM AIX

Mozilla Firefox 3.0, 3.5

HP-UX

Mozilla Firefox 3.0, 3.5

 

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