Preinstallation tasks for Linux or Solaris environments
Perform the following tasks before launching the Infrastructure Management installation program:
- Clean your temporary directories. Start with the temporary folder in your home folder. You may not be able to delete all the files, but BMC recommends that you remove any files or directories that begin with TrueSight or Infrastructure Management.
- Ensure that the nobody user account exists on the target computer.
- Disable X Windows access control by using the xhost command.
- If the init file is not copied to the /etc/rc3.d directory, then the Integration Service corresponding to the init file is not listed as installed (in the list of existing Integration Service installations) during installation of other integration services. This is valid only for non-root users.
- Configure your firewall to allow TCP port 7, which is used to communicate with other Infrastructure Management hosts.
Permissions required for a nonroot user
On Linux or Solaris computers, you can install the Infrastructure Management Server as a root user as well as a nonroot user. However, you must provide certain permissions to the nonroot user as the root user.
- Provide read, write, and execute permissions for the following directories:
- Installation directory
- /etc directory for set environment variable permission
- /usr and /usr/bin directories for create softlink permission
- /etc/init.d directory for create service permission
- Provide read and write permissions for the following files and directories:
- /etc/csh.cshrc file (Linux) or /etc/.login file (Solaris)
- /etc/profile directory for set environment variable permission
Checking the preinstallation requirements for Solaris
When you start the BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server installation, the installer checks to ensure that the target computer is configured based on the recommended settings. The installer checks the environment and reports a status of OK or Not OK for each configuration variable that it checks.
For Solaris, the following preinstallation checks are run:
If the installation program encounters a failed check on a mandatory setting, it aborts the installation. To resolve any failed checks, review the prerequisites in this page to ensure that you have implemented all of them. If all the prerequisites have been implemented and the preinstallation check still fails for some checks, see the Installation-and-uninstallation-issues.
If the required patches are not installed, you will get the following message:
Solaris Patch Needed
If your system requires a new patch, the text will be similar to the following:
Checking patch level of the system...System does NOT have required level of patch.
To run the BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server successfully on Solaris, install the required patches from the SunSolve website, and reboot the system before installing the BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server.
Checking the preinstallation requirements for Linux
When you start the BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server installation, the installer checks to ensure that the target computer is configured based on the recommended settings. The installer checks the environment and reports a status of OK or Not OK for each configuration variable that it checks.
For Linux, the following preinstallation checks are run:
If the installation program encounters a failed check on a mandatory setting, it aborts the installation. To resolve any failed checks, review the prerequisites in this page to ensure that you have implemented all of them. If all the prerequisites have been implemented and the preinstallation check still fails for some checks, see Installation-and-uninstallation-issues.
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