Preparing to install Infrastructure Management

This section contains information about requirements that must be in place before beginning the installation, preinstallation tasks that you must perform, and other considerations:

• Running the preinstallcheck utility
• Preparing Windows computers for Infrastructure Management
• Preparing Linux computers for Infrastructure Management
• Preparing to install Infrastructure Management server with Oracle
• Ports that can be configured when installing Infrastructure Management
• Preparing to install Infrastructure Management in high availability cluster mode

If you are upgrading from a previous Infrastructure Management or BMC Impact Solutions installation, see Upgrading the Infrastructure Management components.

For an overview of the Infrastructure Management architecture and components, see Deployment use cases and best practices for Infrastructure Management and Key concepts .

For information about TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server ports, see Network port schematics for Infrastructure Management.

Related topic

Installation and upgrade considerations for BMC Event Adapters