Deploying BMC Helix IT Operations Management


The deployment of BMC Helix IT Operations Management (BMC Helix ITOM) involves the deployment of BMC Helix Platform Common Services, and the applications.

Use the deployment manager script (infra.config and deployment.config) to deploy BMC Helix Platform Common Services, BMC Helix Logging, and any of the following applications into your Kubernetes cluster:

  • BMC Helix Operations Management
  • BMC Helix Continuous Optimization
  • BMC Helix AIOps
  • BMC Helix Log Analytics
  • BMC Helix Intelligent Automation
  • BMC Helix Developer Tools

    Based on your product license, you can install these applications either individually or in combination. 

Before you begin

To deploy BMC Helix IT Operations Management

  1. Log in to the controller or bastion machine from where the Kubernetes cluster is accessible.
  2. Configure the properties in the helix-on-prem-deployment-manager/configs/infra.config and helix-on-prem-deployment-manager/configs/deployment.config files.
    For more information, see Configuration-file-settings.

    You can also refer to the following topics for application-specific configurations:

  3. To deploy BMC Helix ITOM, run the following command:

    ./deployment-manager.sh

    Important

    The passwords that you entered in the commons/certs/secrets.txt file are encrypted. The deployment manager does not pause to ask for the encryption or decryption of a password. The deployment manager generates a random password to encrypt or decrypt all passwords added to the secrets.txt file.

    The deployment manager generates a new secret.config and secretkey.json files in the common/certs directory.

    The secrets.txt file is deleted.
    The deployment manager will now use the secret.config and secretkey.json files for deploying all products.

After the deployment is successful, you will get two emails:

  • The first email will ask you to activate your BMC Helix Portal account.
    It will contain the BMC Helix Portal URL and the user name, which is your service account name.
  • The second email will confirm that your License Account is activated.



 

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