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Installing BMC Release Lifecycle Management Requester UI silently

This topic provides instructions for performing a silent installation of BMC Release Lifecycle Management Requester UI (now called Release Process Management - Requester UI, 5.0.03.001 onward).

Before you begin

  • Ensure that you installed BMC Release Process Management 5.0.x.
  • Download and extract the RLM Requester UI (now called RPM Requester UI, 5.0.03.001 onward) files to your preferred location.
  • Locate the sample options file (provided along with the product installer wizard) that you can leverage to create an options file for your silent installation scenario.
Warning

Note

If you encounter problems during installation, see Troubleshooting.

To install the BMC Release Lifecycle Management Requester UI (now called Release Process Management - Requester UI, 5.0.03.001 onward)

  1. Log on to the host computer on which you want to perform the silent installation.
  2. Store the product installation program that you downloaded at a suitable location in a temporary directory.

  3. Open a text editor to create a new options file and copy the contents of the sample options file into the new file.

    Warning

    Note

    The sample options file is provided with the product installable.

  4. In the new file, modify the -P installLocation property and add a value that specifies the directory path for installing the product.

    Information

    Windows: -P installLocation=C:\BMC Software\RLMUI

    Linux: -P installLocation=/opt/bmc/RLMUI


  5. Specify the features that you want to install. Both featureBRPM and featureApache are required.

    # Install RLM Requester UI app
    -A featureRPMUI
    # Install Apache web server
    -A featureApache

  6. To provide other user inputs, see the sample default values shown in the following code.

    5.0.03.004
    -J INSTALL_TYPE=FULL_PRIVILEGE

    # Options true, false
    -J GENERATE_SELF_SIGNED_CERTIFICATE=false
    -J HTTPS_PORT=1043
    -J PRIVATE_KEY_PASSWORD=DES\:a751b8161238d051e4e986421d24d2dcd1cff043003f0e35

    # Import key and certificate
    # Below options are mandatory if GENERATE_SELF_SIGNED_CERTIFICATE=false
    -J PRIVATE_KEY_FILE=/home/user/Documents/private_key
    -J CERTIFICATE_FILE=/home/user/Documents/cert_file


    # Generate Self Signed Certificate
    # Below options are mandatory if GENERATE_SELF_SIGNED_CERTIFICATE=true
    -J SELF_SIGNED_CERTIFICATE_LOCATION=/home/user/Documents
    -J SSL_COMMON_NAME=SAT.co.in
    -J CERT_ORG_UNIT=Accounting
    -J CERT_ORG_NAME=SAT Pvt. Ltd.
    -J CERT_LOCALITY=Brooklyn
    -J CERT_STATE=New York
    # Country code only upto 2 characters
    -J CERT_COUNTRY=US

    -J BRPM_BACKEND_URL=http://server.domain:8080/brpm


    5.0.03.003 or earlier
    -J INSTALL_TYPE=FULL_PRIVILEGE

    # To use HTTPS
    -J USE_HTTPS=USE_SSL
    -J HTTPS_PORT=1043
    -J PRIVATE_KEY_FILE=/home/user/Documents/private_key
    -J CERTIFICATE_FILE=/home/user/Documents/cert_file
    -J PRIVATE_KEY_PASSWORD=DES\:a751b8161238d051e4e986421d24d2dcd1cff043003f0e35

    # To use HTTP:
    # -J USE_HTTPS=
    # -J HTTP_PORT=80

    -J BRPM_BACKEND_URL=http://server.domain:8080/brpm
    Warning

    Note

    You must encrypt the password for each of the password properties. You can run the BRPMMaintenanceTool.cmd (Windows) or BRPMMaintenanceTool.sh (Linux) tool packaged with the solution for encrypting passwords. This tool is located in the RLMUIhome\Disk1\utility directory.

    For more information about properties and their values required for the BMC Release Process Management installation, see Silent-installation-properties.

  7. Run the silent installation by using the following command:

    <fullPathToSetupFile> -i silent -DOPTIONS_FILE=<fullPathToOptionsFile>

For more information, you can refer to the silent installation options sample file.

After the installation

After you complete the installation, you might need to perform the following tasks:

  • If you installed the product without administrator or root privileges, you must register the product as a service and start the product services whenever you restart your computer. For more information on how to register and start or stop services for the non-root installation, refer to the RLMUIhome/README_special_config.txt file or see Starting and stopping product services.
  • To verify that the installation completed successfully, access the product interface. For more information, see Accessing the interface.

Related topics

Accessing-the-interface

Replacing-your-existing-SSL-certificates

 

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