Adding the Linux server and Citrix XenServer host object to BMC Server Automation

The following sections provide instructions for adding a Citrix XenServer environment to BMC Server Automation:

Before you begin

Ensure that your environment meets the following requirements.

System requirements

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Supported Citrix XenServer versions

BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management version 3.1.x supports Citrix XenServer version 5.6 as a hypervisor platform for provisioning.

Access and privileges

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Installing the Linux agent

Tip

Because the Citrix XenServer agentless managed object is managed through a proxy, do not overload the proxy server. The recommendation is to map one agentless managed object to one proxy host. However, if you are using one proxy server to host multiple agentless managed objects, all of the agentless managed objects using the proxy host must be running the same version of the Citrix XenServer configuration object.

To install the Linux agent, complete the following steps:

Install the RSCD agent on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux server that acts as the proxy server, as described in Installing-only-the-RSCD-agent-Linux-and-UNIX. Be sure to install the RSCD agent that is specifically designated for use with a Linux server.
Open the /etc/rsc/exports file and add an entry with the application server IP address or host name and a read/write mapping. This restricts access to accept connections only from the listed application server. For example:
192.168.0.1 rw
Open the /etc/rsc/users.local file and add an entry for a role and user that should be mapped to the root account. For example:
BLAdmins:BLAdmin rw,map=root
Save and close the files.