Preparing for installation
This topic provides information that you can use to prepare your environment for installing the product.
Related topics
Preparing for installation on a Windows computer
Ensure that you meet the following requirements for installing the product on a Windows computer:
- Read the Planning topic.
- Verify that your environment meets system requirements.
- Download and unzip the zipped product files (the installer) at your preferred location.
- Ensure that the ports that you use for installing the various components are not in use.
- As a non-admin user, ensure that you have the following permissions to install the product.
(Generally, admin users are expected to already have these permissions.)- Write permissions to the directory in which you want to install the product.
Write permissions to the C:\Windows directory; this is needed by the installer to create the ProductRegistry.xml file.
- Ensure that the host name to IP address mapping is correctly set in the hosts file at C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts.
This is necessary to ensure that the communication between the product components works properly.
Preparing for installation on a Linux computer
- Read the Planning topic.
- Verify that your environment meets system requirements.
- Download and unzip the zipped product files (the installer) at your preferred location.
- Ensure that the ports that you use for installing the various components are not in use.
- As a non-root user, ensure that you have the following permissions to install the product:
(Generally, root users are expected to already have these permissions.)- Write permissions to the directory in which you want to install the product.
Write permissions to the following directories:
/opt directory: Needed by the installer to create the ProductRegistry.xml file.
- /etc directory: Needed by the installer to set up environment variables and to store the startup scripts.
Alternatively, you can provide write permissions to the following locations:
Location
Needed to...
/opt/bmc/ProductRegistry.xml file
Maintain registry of the BMC product installations on the host.
Note that you need to create the opt/bmc directory./etc/profile file, /etc/csh.cshrc file, and /etc/bmc.profile file
Set up the product environment variables.
Note that you need to manually create the /etc/bmc.profile file./etc/init.d directory
Store the service startup scripts.
Ensure that the host name to IP address mapping is correctly set in the hosts file at /etc/hosts.
This is necessary to ensure that the communication between the product components works properly.
- Perform the following steps to prepare for the installation:
- Download the .tar.gz file and then unzip and extract the file.
- Access the command-line interface and change to the directory that contains the last extracted file; for example: /opt/BMC-TrueSight-IT-Data-Analytics/Disk1.
To perform the installation on a remote Linux computer, enable the X Window System and set the DISPLAY variable to launch the installer user interface. To do so, run the following command:
DISPLAY=hostName:0.0
export DISPLAY
where hostName refers to the name of the computer on which you want to launch the installer.
To enable the Indexer to manage more data, navigate to the /etc/security/ directory and increase the number of open file descriptors on your installed location to at least 32,000.
To do so, add the following lines in the limits.conf file:
root soft nofile 32000root hard nofile 32000- Save the limits.conf file.
- To help prevent performance issues, execute the ulimit -l unlimited command to set the amount of memory that can be locked by the Indexer.
Where to go from here
Install the product in one of the following ways: