Installing components using the local option on UNIX or Linux

Many components of BMC Server Automation normally install files in the /bin, /lib, and /etc directories. You can choose to install with the local option, which places all of the files into a directory of your choice. This option is not available for the installation of the BMC Server Automation Console.

For more general information about installation, especially about prerequisite tasks and post-installation tasks, see Installing the Application Server and components (Linux and UNIX).

To perform installation using the local option as root

When you start the installation script, add the -local option to the command line to start the installer. For example:

BBSA87-SOL10-SPARC.sh -local

At the end of installation, the installer tells you to set the NSHDIR and LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variables if you want to manually start the Network Shell (NSH) or manually run the RSCD Agent, Application Server, or any other BladeLogic service.  If you start the service with the associated startup script, setting these values is not required.

To perform the Application Server installation using the local option as bladmin

You can install the BMC Server Automation Application Server as the bladmin user instead of installing as root.

1. Create the bladmin group and account. 
   For example:
   

   groupadd bladmin

   useradd -g bladmin bladmin

2. Log on directly to the system with the account that you created in the previous step (not as su or sudo), and run the installer using a command such as the following example command:
   BBSA87-LIN32.sh -local

At the end of installation, the installer tells you to set the NSHDIR and LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variables.

To perform a silent installation using the local option

You can run the installer with silent install options, as described in Using silent mode to install BMC Server Automation components (Linux or UNIX), in combination with the -local option.
If you perform this installation as bladmin (and not as root), you must set the INSTALL_DIR option in the nsh-install-defaults file.

For example:
BBSA87-SOL10-SPARC.sh -local -silent

At the end of installation, the installer tells you to set the NSHDIR and LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variables.

Startup script locations with local install

If you choose the local option, startup scripts are placed in <install>/NSH/conf instead of in /etc/init.d. The group of scripts includes scripts for the RSCD Agent, Application Server, and the blpxe and blprocserv utilities. If you want to have these services start at boot, manually apply a symbolic link (symlink) or copy them to the appropriate run-level location for your system (for example: /etc/init.d or /etc/rcN.d).