Planning your installation

Before you start installing the solution:

Note

If any of your hosts accidentally crashed after you installed a product successfully, you will need to reinstall the product on the same host or a different host. However, the installer does not allow you to perform such an installation because the registry file contains a successfully installed status for the product. To reinstall the product on the same host or on a different host, contact BMC Customer Support.

Gathering information for the installation

The planning spreadsheet provided in this section helps you to prepare these parameter values. To avoid installation errors, refer to the spreadsheet when you run the installation.

Note

This Microsoft Excel spreadsheet replaces the installation worksheets found in the separate product installation guides. Refer to the spreadsheet when you run the installation.

To plan for your installation using the spreadsheet:

  1. Download and open the planning spreadsheet.
  2. To prepare for the installer prompts, enter your selections and parameter values into the Value column with the help of your DBA or system administrator.
     For example, after installing BMC AR System Server & IT Service Mgt. Suite - Primary, you use the values that you entered in the spreadsheet when you configure the DSO Mapping.
  3. Launch the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management installer.
  4. Start installing a product, based on the installation order.
  5. Copy parameter values from the spreadsheet and paste them into the product fields in the installer.

Installation timing

The following table lists the estimated installation timing of all products within the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management solution. You can use this information for planning your installation of the solution.

Note

The installation timing may vary based on the hardware configuration and system performance of the product host.

Product

Installation timing on Windows
(hh:mm)

Installation timing on Linux
(hh:mm)

BMC Remedy AR System Server & IT Service Mgt. Suite

01:10

01:10

BMC Remedy AR System Server -- Cloud database

00:57

01:15

BMC Atrium Core -- Web registry

00:31

00:55

BMC Remedy AR System -- Mid Tier

00:16

00:15

BMC Server Automation

00:35

00:38

BMC Server Automation -- File server

00:02

00:02

PXE server

00:08

00:08

BMC Network Automation

00:16

00:20

BMC Network Automation -- Device agent

00:07

00:07

BMC Atrium Orchestrator

00:29

00:30

BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management -- Central server

01:00

Product not available on Linux

BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management -- Server

01:23

Product not available on Linux

BMC ProactiveNet -- Data Collection Host

00:16

Product not available on Linux

Cloud Platform Manager

00:10

00:13

Cloud Database Extensions

00:25

00:25

Cloud Portal

00:37

00:55

 

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