Installing
BMC provides Jenkins pipelines to install BMC Helix Service Management on your on-premises systems. To get started with the installation, you must understand the end-to-end process for implementing BMC Helix Service Management on your system. To set up your system, you must meet the system requirements, download the installation files, perform the installation, complete the system configurations, and then make the system available to the users.
BMC Helix Service Management installation process
A typical installation of BMC Helix Service Management requires two namespaces as shown in the following image:
Important
bmc-helix-platform and bmc-helix-innovation-suite-poc are example namespace names. The actual namespace names are specific to your environment.
For more information about the namespaces, see System requirements.
The following image provides an overview of BMC Helix Service Management installation process for the on-premises system:
The following table provides the steps to install BMC Helix Service Management and set up your on-premises system:
| Task | Action | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plan the installation | |
| a | Review the deployment architecture. | Get familiarized with the BMC Helix Service Management deployment architecture. |
| b | Plan the sizing of the container environment. | Plan your environment and check the license requirements based on the products you want to install. Review the sizing guidelines for BMC Helix Service Management container environment. The sizing guidelines include the sizing requirements for the following products:
Important:
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| c | Plan and set up your Kubernetes cluster | Review the supported orchestration platforms and set up the cluster where you want to install BMC Helix Innovation Suite. Create the namespaces to install BMC Helix Platform and BMC Helix Innovation Suite, and configure the master and worker nodes in the cluster. For information about the orchestration platforms and namespaces requirements, see Orchestration platforms. |
| d | Set up load balancer and Ingress controller | Review the supported load balancer, load balancer SSL methods, and headers for SSL configurations. Review the Ingress controller and parameter value requirements. Set up the load balancer and Ingress controller for your cluster. |
| e | Set up hardware requirements for BMC Deployment Engine | Review the Jenkins server requirements to set up the BMC Deployment Engine. |
2 | Prepare for installation | |
| a | Download the installation files and container images access key from Electronic Product Download (EPD). | Downloading the installation files |
| b | Create your Harbor repository and synchronize the repository with BMC Docker Trusted Registry (DTR). | Setting up a Harbor repository to synchronize container images |
| c | Prepare the database that you want to use. | |
| d | Set up the BMC Deployment Engine to call the relevant pipelines that deploy the platform and applications. | Setting up BMC Deployment Engine |
| e | Deploy BMC Helix Platform services and set up the installation environment to make it installation ready. Important: Deploy BMC Helix Platform services in the BMC Helix Platform namespace. | Installing BMC Helix Platform Common services 24.1.00 Installing BMC Helix Platform Common Services 23.4.00 |
| 3 | Perform BMC Helix Service Management installation | |
In the BMC Helix Innovation Suite namespace, install the platform and applications. | ||
| 4 | Perform BMC Helix Service Management post-installation tasks | |
| a | Obtain license keys for the platform and applications that you want to use. | Obtaining license keys |
| b | Apply license keys for the platform and applications that you want to use. | Activating application licenses |
| c | Perform the post-installation configurations. | Performing the postinstallation configurations |
| 5 | Perform basic configurations | |
| Perform basic configurations such as configure set up users, and provide user permissions. | ||
Comments
In this doc, it says "A typical installation of BMC Helix IT Service Management requires three namespaces as shown in the following image:", but in the picture only shows two. What would be the 3rd namespace, just as example?
Hello,
BMC Helix IT Service Service Management 22.1.06 installation requires two namespaces. We have updated the content.
Thanks,
Poonam
Under section 2 (e), steps are not provided to Installing BMC Helix Platform Common Services 24.1.00. Is this not supported?
Hi Ravi,
Thanks for bringing this to our notice. We have added the link for Installing BMC Helix Platform Common Services 24.1.00.
Thanks,
Poonam
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