Creating and deploying an installable image for UNIX computers

This procedure describes how to create an installable image on a local computer for local installation on other computers.

To create an installable image of BMC products

1. Start the installation utility.
2. On the Welcome page, click Next.
3. Review the license agreement and select Accept. Click Next.
4. On the Select Installation Option page, select Create an image to be installed later.
5. Enter the name of a directory on your computer where you want the image stored after it has been created.
6. Optionally, select to have the image compressed and saved to a .zip file. Click Next.

7. Select the target operating systems on which you want to install the image. Click Next.
   You can select multiple Windows or UNIX platforms for each image that you create. Alternatively, you can select the Local System option, which lets you create an image that can be installed only on computers with the same platform and configuration as the computer on which you are creating the image.

   Note

   You cannot create an installable image that can be installed on both Windows and UNIX computers. You must create one image for all Windows operating systems and one image for all UNIX operating systems; however, you can create the images from either a Windows or UNIX computer.

8. Select the products that you want to include in the image. Click Next.
9. Proceed through the installation as you would if you were installing products locally, entering all required product configuration information.
10. On the Review Selections and Create Image page, click Create Image.
11. When the status indicator reaches 100 percent, click Next on the Export Status page.
12. Verify that the process was successful and optionally view the log file. Click Next.
13. Review or enter any postinstallation product configuration information.
14. Click Finish to exit the installation utility.

When you create an installable image, the product configuration information that you enter, such as product installation directory, account names, passwords, and so forth, must be the same for all computers on which the image is installed. If you want to specify different product configuration values for different computers, you can

• • Create a separate image for each set of values that you want to implement.
  • Use the -createcontrolfile command line option to create a new control file to use with the image. For more details, see Command line options.
  • Use the ctltool to change the variables stored in the image's control file after the image is generated. For more details, see Using ctltool to edit control files for UNIX images.

To deploy an installable image

Use one of the following methods to deploy the installable image to your UNIX environment:

• Tar the image and use ftp or secure ftp to send it to a remote computer.
• Use a third-party distribution system such as Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS).
• Burn the image to a CD and distribute the CD.
• Place the image on a shared network drive.
• Selecting the Compress Installable Image option in the installation utility to create a .zip file that you can then send to other computers.

Where to go from here

Install the installable image on a UNIX computer.