Remote cell system requirements

The remote cell can be installed on the following operating systems:

Microsoft Windows
Linux
Solaris
IBM AIX

Support for third-party products

To receive full support for a BMC product, you must have such product installed in a supported environment, as specified in the BMC product documentation. If a third-party vendor cancels support for one of its products (such as an operating system or subsystem), and that third-party product integrates or interacts with the BMC product you have licensed, you must upgrade to a supported version of that third-party product before BMC Customer Support can provide you with support for the affected BMC product. For further information, see BMC's product support policy.

Hardware requirements to support small, medium, and large environments

Remote cell requirements for Microsoft Windows

Component	Requirement
Supported versions of Microsoft Windows	Windows 2008 Enterprise Edition (64 bit) Windows 2008 R2 (64 bit) Windows 2012 Standard Edition (64 bit) Windows 2012 Datacenter Edition (64 bit) Windows 2012 R2 Standard Edition (64 bit) Windows 2012 R2 Datacenter Edition (64 bit) Windows Server 2016 Datacenter Edition (64 bit) Windows Server 2016 Standard Edition (64 bit)
Hard disk space	750 MB
RAM	4 GB

Common requirements for all UNIX-based Remote cells

Component	Requirement
Hard disk space	900 MB
Software disk space	300 MB
Data disk space	100 MB
Temporary disk space (/tmp)	100 MB
File descriptor	4096

In addition to the requirements in the table above, you must also satisfy these requirements:

The root partition should not be full
Umask should be 022
BMC recommends that the TCP Control Port be set to 12124

Remote cell requirements for Linux

Component	Requirement
Supported versions of Linux	Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 6.7, 6.8, 6.9, 7.2, 7.3 (64 bit) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3, 11 SP4, 12, 12 SP2 (64 bit) Oracle Linux Server versions 6.8 and 7.3 (64 bit)
Memory	4 GB
Swap space	1 GB

On Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the following libraries must be installed before installing the Remote cell.

The preferred method to add any missing libraries is to use the yum command to fetch the necessary library packages from the RHN (Red Hat Network) repository via the internet. To use this method, a Red Hat subscription is needed. Register the system by clicking System->Administration->Red Hat Subscription Manager in the menu on the server itself. After registering the system, you can use "yum install" to download and install the required libraries from the RHN.

Library	Command to install the library on Red Hat Enterprise Linux	Command to install the library on SUSE Linux
libXtst (32-bit) libXtst (64-bit)	yum install libXtst.i686 libXtst.x86_64 libXtst-1.0.1-3.1 libX11-devel-1.0.3-11.el5	N/A
glibc (32-bit) glibc (64-bit)	`yum install` glibc.i686 glibc.x86_64 glibc-2.12.x86_64 glibc-2.12-1.107.el6.i686 glibc-devel-2.5-65	zypper install glibc-32bit glibc
libstdc++ (32-bit) libstdc++ (64-bit)	yum install libstdc++.i686 libstdc++.x86_64	zypper install libstdc++-32bit libstdc++
compat-libstdc++-33 (32-bit) compat-libstdc++-33 (64-bit)	yum install compat-libstdc++-33.i686 compat-libstdc++-33.x86_64 compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-69.e16.i686	zypper install libstdc++33-32bit libstdc++33
compat-libstdc++-296 (32-bit) compat-libstdc++-296 (64-bit)	yum install compat-libstdc++-296.i686 compat-libstdc++-296.x86_64	N/A
pam (32-bit) pam (64-bit)	yum install pam.i686 pam.x86_64 pam-1.1.1-13.e16.i686	zypper install pam-32bit pam
libgtk-x11-2 (32-bit)	yum install libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0	N/A
libfreebl3.so	`yum install libfreebl3.so`	N/A

Note

To avoid errors while installing 32-bit libraries, BMC recommends that you install 32-bit libraries together with the 64-bit libraries.

After installing the libraries, run yum check to ensure that the libraries are not corrupt.

Remote cell requirements for Solaris

Component	Solaris
Platform	SPARC sun4v
Operating system	Solaris 11, 11.1, 11.2 (64 bit)
Memory	4 GB
Swap space	1 GB

Remote cell requirements for IBM AIX

Component	Requirement
Platform	IBM AIX
Operating system	IBM AIX version 7.2
Memory	4 GB
Swap space	1 GB

Notes

The 64-bit remote cell is not supported on IBM AIX platforms.
BMC products are certified for use on supported operating system versions. BMC does not explicitly test for OS patches/updates that are released after a BMC product is released. BMC products should work fine with minor updates to these supported operating systems. For assistance, please contact BMC Customer Support.