Installing the Application Server and components (Linux and UNIX)

On Linux and UNIX servers, you can install all server components of a TrueSight Server Automation system at one time (except TrueSight Server Automation Console).

The topic includes the following sections:

About this installation program

This program installs some or all of the following server components:

  • Application Server
  • RSCD agent
  • Network Shell
  • PXE Server
  • TFTP Server

Note the following considerations for this installer:

  • If you prefer, you can install only some of the available TrueSight Server Automation components. Choose all components you need for the installation. If you choose not to install a component, you cannot add it to the installation later by running this installation script again.
  • This installation does not install the TrueSight Server Automation Console. To view the console, you must install it. For information, see Installing the TrueSight Server Automation Console (Linux and UNIX).
  • To install a Provisioning Server, install the Application Server and select the option to enable provisioning. For successful provisioning, the RSCD agent must be installed on the same host computer as the PXE server. If you install the PXE server, you must also install the RSCD agent.
  • Performing this installation creates a UNIX user called bladmin and a UNIX group called bladmin. The TrueSight Server Automation Application Server runs as the bladmin user.
  • If a user wants to use TrueSight Server Automation and does not have root privileges, the user must first be added to the bladmin group to gain access to essential configuration files.
  • If the host computer on which you are installing the Network Shell 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.
  • To perform a silent installation of TrueSight Server Automation components, see Using-silent-mode-to-install-TrueSight-Server-Automation-components-Linux-or-UNIX.

Before you begin

  • Linux platforms on which you plan to install the Application Server or Network Shell must have the appropriate version of libtermcap.so.2 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.
  • The UNIX or Linux file system partition to which you plan to install the Application Server must not be mounted with the nosuid option.
  • Set the umask for the root user to 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 ensure that the following operating system parameters are set for the bladmin user. These settings should be permanently set for the user (for example, in the /etc/security/limits.conf  file for Linux):
    • Set core files to unlimited.
    • Set the number of open file descriptors to 8192

  • Optionally, 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 /tmpduring 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.

To install all TrueSight Server Automation server components

  1. Navigate to the directory containing installation files and run the installation script for TrueSight Server Automation. (Script names follow the convention: TSSAversion-platform.) BMC recommends that you execute the installation from a root shell. Do not execute the installation script from a non-root account. For example:
    ../Disk1/files/installers/appserver_64/TSSA<version>-LIN64.sh
  2. Select the following individual components in the installation script. A plus sign (+) appears next to the component to indicate you have chosen to install it.
    1. Enter 1 to select the RSCD Agent.
    2. Enter 2 to select the Application Server.
    3. Enter 3 to select Network Shell.
    4. (optional) Enter P to select PXE Server if you are setting up provisioning.

    5. (optional) Enter T to select TFTP Server if you are setting up provisioning.

      ====     BMC TrueSight Server Automation Suite 23.4.00     ===
      ================== Select Installation Components ==================
      Server Utilities
         1 - RSCD Agent
         2 - Application Server
          P - PXE Server
          T - TFTP Server
      Client Utilities
         3 - Network Shell
         9 - Start the installation
          A - Select all components
      Select component:

  3. Select 9 to start the installation.

  4. When you see the prompts to set up the root privileges for the RSCD Agent, select n.
    You will manually configure these privileges later, before you run the post-install configuration utilty (blappconf).

    Set up an initial host with root equivalency (y/n) ? n
    Set up a mapping for a particular client user (y/n) ? n
  5. Follow the instructions in the installation script and continue to answer the remaining questions. 

  6. One of the questions asks you if you want to enable the rootonly configuration. For more information, see Enhancing Security and Efficiency with the rootonly option in the RSCD agent Installer.

     Do you want to enable ‘rootonly’ configuration? (y/n) ? y
  7. Follow the remaining instructions in the installation script.

Note

  • To avoid permission issues with bladmin, do not install a local installation beneath the root home directory.
  • If you are setting up VMware ESX servers, you must define certain properties that allow the Application Server to communicate with a web service which accesses the ESX server's virtual infrastructure. For more information on configuring an ESX server, see Setting-up-a-VMware-vSphere-environment.


TrueSight Server Automation version 8.8 and later support Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux). You do not need to enable the allow_execmod and allow_execstack commands during agent installation. If it is already enabled on the target the agent installer will not disable it. Note that support for SELinux is limited to the following configured state (as defined through /etc/sysconfig/selinux):

SELINUX=enforcing
SELINUXTYPE=targeted

Multi Level Security is not supported.


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