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Preparing to run the installer on a Linux system

Before you start installing the products in the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management solution, prepare your installer host by using the procedures explained in this topic:

For preparing your Windows installer host, see Preparing-to-run-the-installer-on-a-Windows-computer.

Install Package Managers

The following Package Managers are required to access the graphical user interface (GUI) on Linux computers.  Make sure that you install these Package Managers on your installer host:

Warning

Note

Contact your Linux system administrator to check for these packages.

  • libXi-1.0.1-4.el5_4
  • libX11-1.0.3-11.el5
  • libXau-1.0.1-3.1
  • libICE-1.0.1-2.1
  • libSM-1.0.1-3.1
  • libXtst-1.0.1-3.1
  • libXtst-1.0.1-3.1.i386
  • libXext-1.0.1-2.1
  • compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61.i386
  • libXi.i386
  • xorg-x11-server-Xorg
  • xorg-x11-utils
  • xorg-x11-xauth

Uninstall  BMC BladeLogic RSCD Agent and NSH

For new installations, if you have an existing BMC BladeLogic RSCD Agent and BMC BladeLogic Network Shell (NSH) installed on your installer host, you must uninstall them. Because the RSCD agent will be installed with every BMC product and the NSH will be installed on the installer host, you must uninstall any existing versions. To uninstall the RSCD agent and the NSH:

Warning

Note

You need to uninstall the RSCD agent and NSH only for a new installation. This step is not required for upgrades.

  1. Go to /opt/bmc/BladeLogic/<version>/NSH.
  2. Type the command ./Uninstall and follow the uninstallation process.
  3. Go to /opt/bmc/bladelogic directory and delete the RSCD folder.
  4. Manually delete the /usr/lib/rsc folder.

For more information, see the BMC BladeLogic Server Automation 8.1.00 Installation Guide.

Verify product host connectivity

To ensure that you can successfully launch the installation on a product host:

  1. Make sure that you are able to ping all target hosts(on which you want to install BMC products) from the installer host, for example: ping <host name>.
  2. Run the ifconfig eth0 command on the target host and verify that the IP address returned in the previous step matches the target computer's IP address returned in this step.

Set the DISPLAY environment variable

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BMC recommends that you use tools, such as Xmanager for connecting to the Linux machine and running the installer. Using VConsole for installation might generate errors. With Xmanager, X applications installed on remote UNIX based machines run seamlessly with Windows application side by side.

If you are using Xmanager to launch the installer, set the DISPLAY environment variable:

export DISPLAY=<IP address>:0.0

For example:
[root@unixMachine Disk1]# export DISPLAY=172.23.53.11:0.0

In the example, the IP address is of the machine where XManager is installed.

Grant permissions to the installer folder

Before you launch the installer, make sure that you grant appropriate permissions to the installer folder:

chmod -R 755 /CLM21Installer/Planner

Related topics

Preparing-to-run-the-installer-on-a-Windows-computer
Installation-order-and-product-dependencies
Installing-BMC-Cloud-Lifecycle-Management-on-Windows

 

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