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Setting up the installation environment

You must perform the following preinstallation tasks in the order shown before you begin installing the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management solution. These tasks help you configure your computer for running the installer.

Preinstallation tasks

Task

Description

Perform this task to download, and verify the installation files before you run the installer.

Depending on the OS in your environment, perform one of the listed tasks to prepare your system for running the installer.

Install the hotfix

Install the hotfix to prevent Installation Planner failure while installing the Cloud Database Extension component. For more information, see Hotfix for the Installation Planner.

Depending on the OS in your environment, perform this optional task step only if you do not want the installer to create the user and database for BMC Network Automation automatically.

  • (Optional) Pre-creating a SQL Server database for BMC AR System Server - Cloud Portal and Database
  • (Optional) Pre-creating an Oracle database for BMC AR System Server - Cloud Portal and Database

Depending on the OS in your environment, perform this optional task to pre-create the database and credentials for BMC AR System Server – Cloud Portal and Database.

Click here to see the steps for pre-creating a SQL Server database

As an optional step, if you want to pre-create a Microsoft SQL Server database on Microsoft Windows for BMC AR System Server – Cloud Portal and Database, use the following lines of code:

use tempdb

CREATE DATABASE "ARSystem" ON (NAME = "ARSystem_data", FILENAME = 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA\ARSys.mdf', SIZE = 7000MB) LOG ON (NAME = "ARSystemp_log", FILENAME = 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA\ARSysLog.ldf', SIZE = 1000MB)

CREATE LOGIN "ARAdmin" WITH PASSWORD = 'AR#Admin#', DEFAULT_DATABASE = ARSystem

use ARSystem

CREATE USER "ARAdmin" FOR LOGIN "ARAdmin"

use ARSystem

exec sp_addrolemember 'db_owner', 'ARAdmin'
Click here to see the steps for pre-creating an Oracle database

 Optionally, if you want to pre-create an Oracle database on Linux for BMC AR System Server – Cloud Portal and Database, use the following lines of code:

Create temporary tablespace MYARTEMP
  TempFile '/data1/oracle/oradata/ora11db/mytemp01.tmp' SIZE 1024M      
  Extent management local uniform SIZE 16M;

create tablespace ARSystem
  datafile '/data1/oracle/oradata/ora11db/ARSys.dbf'
 size 7000M reuse;

create user ARAdmin identified by AR#Admin#
 default tablespace  ARSystem temporary tablespace MYARTEMP
  quota unlimited on ARSystem;

create role ARole_arsys not identified;

grant alter session, create cluster, create database link, create  sequence,
 create session, create synonym, create table, create view, create procedure,
 create trigger, query rewrite to ARole_arsys;

grant ARole_arsys to ARAdmin;


  • (Optional) Setting up TrueSight Server Automation database on Windows
  • (Optional) Setting up TrueSight Server Automation database on Linux

As an optional step, if you want to set up a TrueSight Server Automation database, perform the following steps:

Click here to see the steps for Windows

As an optional step, if you want to set up a BMC Server Automation database on Microsoft Windows, perform the steps as mentioned in Setting-up-a-SQL-Server-database-and-user-for-TrueSight-Server-Automation.

Click here to see the steps for Linux

As an optional step, if you want to set up a TrueSight Server Automation database on Linux, perform the steps as mentioned in Setting-up-a-SQL-Server-database-and-user-for-TrueSight-Server-Automation.

Ignore Step 2 under section "To create an Oracle database user and database tablespaces" in TrueSight Server Automation documentation.

 

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