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Prerequisites for VPC installation

Before you begin installation, take a moment to carefully review and ensure compliance with the requirements described in the following sections.

System requirements

Vendor Patch Content has the following system requirements.

  • The Vendor Patch Content install must be run from the BladeLogic Application Server itself, not from NSH launched from a NSH client installed on another system.
  • (HP-UX patching only) An HP-UX system is required for patch analysis of HP-UX target servers. You must have HP-UX Software Assistant (SWA) tool installed on the HP-UX helper server. SWA C.02.75 is the minimum supported version.
  • (CentOS patching) A supported RPM-based Linux distribution, such as Red Hat, CentOS, Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL), or SuSE. This is required for creating repository for CentOS.

Required permissions for the installation

The user ID of the individual performing the installation must have permission to create or change the objects listed in the following table:

Authorization

Description

ExtendedObject.*

Extended object management

PropertyInstance.*

Instance management

PropertyClass.*

Property Class management

JobFolder.*

Job Folder management

DeployJob.*

Deploy Job management

BatchJob.*

Batch Job management

NSHScriptJob.*

NSH Script Job management

DepotFolder.*

Depot folder management

CustomSoftware.*

Software authorizations

 

HPUXSoftware.*

BLPackage.*

BLPackage authorization

NSH Script.*

NSH Script management

ApplicationServer.Read

Read application server information

Application Server requirements

The TrueSight Server Automation Vendor Patch Content (VPC) application can be installed on any job server, that is, any TrueSight Server Automation Application Server of type Job or type All. This Application Server must be of version 8.2.00 or later. Ensure that the TrueSight Server Automation Application Server complies with the requirements discussed in the following sections (click each line to expand):

Perl requirement for VPC

Each instance of TrueSight Server Automation Application Server, regardless of platform, must have Perl version 5.8 installed and operational.

The Perl installation must have the following modules:

  • Time::localtime
  • FileHandle
  • Getopt::Std
  • Cwd
  • Sys::Hostname
  • Time::Local
  • FindBin qw($Bin)
  • Fcntl
  • File::Copy
  • XML::Parser
  • Data::Dumper
  • MIME::Base64

For information on how to configure the TrueSight Server Automation Application Server to support Perl, see Configuring Perl.

Session credentials for VPC

Before beginning installation, you must authenticate the TrueSight Server Automation Application Server through the TrueSight Server Automation Authentication Service and obtain session credentials for the specific user who will be installing the Vendor Patch Content software. The profile that you use to install Vendor Patch Content must be linked to the job server.

TrueSight Server Automation Authentication Service supports many authentication mechanisms, of which the SRP protocol is the default. To obtain session credentials through the SRP protocol, use one of the following two methods:

  • The logon process for TrueSight Server Automation automatically authenticates the BMC BladeLogic Application Server and obtains the necessary session credentials for that user.

  • If you have not logged onto TrueSight Server Automation, pass the following options to the blcred command, which acquires the profile and is formatted as follows:

    blcred cred -acquire -profile profileName -username userName -password password

    Through this command, provide the profile and password for an already defined profile.

For a more complete discussion on administering security in TrueSight Server Automation, see Administering security. For more information about the blcred utility and available options, refer to the utility's man page and Using the blcred utility.

Warning

If running the VPC installer on a Windows system you must start a cmd session as Administrator or be logged in as the built-in local Administrator account to start the VPC install via NSH.

 

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