Prerequisites for Installing Drift Management and help as non-root - Linux only
Important
Drift Management has been deprecated from BMC CMDB. The documentation provided for Drift Management is also deprecated and provided for information only.
See Deprecated features.
Best practice
- /tmp
- /usr/ar (default AR System installed location)
- /etc/arsystem/<ARS- server-name>/armonitor.conf
If you do not install Drift Management in your home directory but in the default AR System directories, then you must be given access to specific directories that the installer writes to:
- /usr/arsystem/ (default AR System installed location)
- /usr/tmp
When installing help, your Linux system administrator must give you full read, write, and execute access to the BMCCDMOnlineHelpSetup.bin executable and to the /tmp directory. You should install help in your home directory. Otherwise, you must be given access to specific directories that the installer writes to.
After you give access to the directories, run the following commands as a root user:
mkdir /usr/arsystem
chown remedy:bmc /usr/arsystem
cd /bin
ln -s /opt/bmc/ARSystem/bin/arsystem ./arsystem
cd /
ln -s /opt/bmc/ARSystem/pluginsvr/ pluginsvr
cd /
ln -s /opt/bmc/ARSystem/conf ./conf
Comments
For me the steps above were not sufficient and did not result in a successful non-root Installation. After some analysis of the installation errors, I executed the following additional steps (which need to be performed as root). In the end the (non-root) installation was successful. Note that in spite of these extra steps, BMC CDM was installed in Directory /opt/bmc/BMC_Configuration_Drift_Management which has to be selected during the (GUI) installation procedure. Note further that it appears as you can repeat the Installation as often as necessary without getting into Problems....
mkdir /usr/arsystem chown remedy:bmc /usr/arsystem
cd /bin ln -s /opt/bmc/ARSystem/bin/arsystem ./arsystem
cd / ln -s /opt/bmc/ARSystem/pluginsvr/ pluginsvr
cd / ln -s /opt/bmc/ARSystem/conf ./conf
The automatic HTML formatting of this web site introduced some errors in my text above:
Please start a new (command) line before "chown", and before each "ln -s ", or introduce a ";" at these points, i.e. like:
mkdir /usr/arsystem; chown remedy:bmc /usr/arsystem
OR (as I intended to type)
mkdir /usr/arsystem
chown remedy:bmc /usr/arsystem
Hi Martin,
Thank you for your feedback on the documentation. We have updated the topic.
Regards,
Himanshu
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