This section describes how to set up BMC Server Automation for a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) environment.
To do so, you:

• install a special Linux agent on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux system running the Red Hat Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)
• add the server to the BMC Server Automation Console
• use the BMC Server Automation Console to perform configuration tasks that complete the setup.

Step 1: Review minimum requirements for RHEV environments

System requirements

To employ BMC Server Automation in a RHEV environment, you must have a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 (or later) server with:

• the virtualization packages installed
• the latest version of libvirt (minimum 0.6.3)
• one or more domains running on the server
• the BMC Server Automation RSCD agent for Red Hat Enterprise Linux installed and running.

Required access and privileges

For a RHEV environment, you must have root access to the Red Hat KVM host server.

Step 2: Install the Linux agent

1. Install the RSCD agent on the Red Hat Linux 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 64-bit Linux server.
2. Open the /usr/lib/rsc/exports file and edit the last line so it reads:
   • rw,user=root*

Step 3: Add the Red Hat KVM server to BMC Server Automation

 To add the server to the console, complete the following steps:

1. From within the BMC Server Automation Console, add the Red Hat KVM server as a managed server to a server group (right-click a server group and select Add Server ).
2. Distribute configuration objects to the Red Hat KVM server:
   1. From the BMC Server Automation Console, navigate to the Jobs folder.
   2. Right-click a job group and select New > Administration Task > Distribute Configuration Objects.
   3. Provide a name for the Job and click Next.
   4. Expand the Global Configuration Objects list, select the RHEL KVM object, and add it to the Selected Configuration Objects section.
   5. Click Next.
   6. On the Targets panel, select the server running the Red Hat KVM hypervisor.
   7. Click Finish, and execute the job.
      For details, see Distributing configuration objects.
3. In the BMC Server Automation Console, do the following:
   1. In the BMC Server Automation Console, select Configuration > Property Dictionary View.
   2. Browse the Built-in Property Classes > Custom Objects Environment class.
   3. Define an instance of Custom Objects Environment class, with the following properties and click Finish:

Property	Update
JPA_JAVA_HOME*	Enter the path where the JDK is installed, for example /jdk1.6.0_20/.
JPA_JVM_ARGUMENTS*	Can be used to set JVM arguments such as -Xms32m, Xmx256m, and so on.
JPA_JVM_LIB*	Enter the path of the libjvm.so on the server, for example jdk1.6.0_20/jre/lib/amd64/server/libjvm.so.

To set the instance for the server, complete the following steps:

1. From the Servers workspace, select the Red Hat KVM server.
2. In the Properties tab, under the Extended properties object, select Custom Objects Environment.
3. Choose the class instance that you defined above.
4. Click OK.
   You can now use the BMC Server Automation Console to Live browse server and access the RHEL KVM node.
   For more information about adding a server and setting its properties, see Adding-a-server-to-the-system in the BMC Server Automation online documentation.