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_Prerequisites for installing on Linux

  • Ensure that your machine meets the minimum software and hardware requirements as described in Minimum-software-requirements and Minimum-hardware-requirements.
  • You must have an X Window display system installed and configured on your Linux machine.
  • Ensure that your firewall allows communication on all ports used by various components of TrueSight Server Automation. For more information on ports, see TrueSight-Server-Automation-ports.
  • Ensure that you have set up a database for use by TrueSight Server Automation, as discussed in Setting-up-an-Oracle-database-for-TrueSight-Server-Automation and Setting-up-a-SQL-Server-database-and-user-for-TrueSight-Server-Automation .
  • Bash UNIX shell must be the default shell on all machines that that TrueSight Server Automation is being installed.
  • Set the umask for the root and bladmin users to 0027 or 0022 on the Application Server host computer.
  • TrueSight Server Automation might have many open files at any given point in its operation. Therefore, unless your environment has specific needs for a more restrictive setting (depending on the specific operation of the Application Server), BMC recommends that you set the following operating system parameters for the bladmin user:
    • Set core files to unlimited: ulimit -c unlimited
    • Set the number of open file descriptors to 8192: ulimit -n 8192
  • If the host computer on which you are installing TrueSight Server Automation has:
    • A supported version of Perl installed — The Network Shell installation automatically installs the Network Shell Perl module. (For information about the Perl versions that TrueSight Server Automation supports, see Perl support.)
    • An unsupported version of Perl installed — The installation copies files that allow you to install the Perl module after you have installed the supported version of Perl.
  • Linux platforms on which you plan to install the Application Server or Network Shell must have the appropriate version of libtermcap.so.2 and libtermcap.so.6 shared library installed. Install the shared library before installing these components. For more information, see Requirement for installing the Application Server, TrueSight Server Automation Console, or Network Shell on Linux.
  • If you are using the RedHat offline patch downloader, ensure that the glibc.i386 or glibc.i686 library is present (due to the embedded JRE version 1.8).
  • The Linux file system partition to which you plan to install the Default Application Server must not be mounted with the nosuid option.

  • (Optional) Set the INSTALL_FILES_TEMP environment variable to a valid, writable directory. If this variable is set, the installer files are stored in that location, thereby reducing the disk space requirements for /tmp during the installation. Enter the following commands at the operating system command line:

    INSTALL_FILES_TEMP=<temporaryDirLocation>
    export INSTALL_FILES_TEMP

    For more information, see Methods for reducing installation space on Linux and UNIX.

 

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