How to install and commission all A2E 8.0 elements on a demo laptop

This document explains how to install and commission all A2E elements (SM,AM,SESM,IPCM,PROV,MAS,RTP) on a demo laptop computer. SM,AM,SESM,IPCM, PROV and MAS can be deployed in same operational system (not supported, lab use only), however RTP should be installed in different operational systems. To make this possible you need to install VMware server which is going to run as A2E RTP Platform for RTP (ple3).

Recommended Hardware Requirements

1. 2 Core CPU
2. 4G Memory

1) Installing A2E platform on laptop

Boot your laptop from A2E platform CD. Type “install-kvm LabMachine” for starting installation. LabMachine parameter is necessary for skipping hardware compatibility check in installer. Most laptops have only one ethernet interface even they have 4G of memory and 2 Core CPU. No worries second interface won’t be necessary.

Please proceed with installer guide to finish platform installation.

Please apply platform patches if there is one.

2) Installing MCP and Oracle

• Place Oracle installer load in /var/mcp/media directory with ntappadm.

• Place MCP load in /var/mcp/loads directory with ntappadm

• Extract your MCP_14.0.0.0_X.zip which located in /var/mcp/loads

• Copy all files in /var/mcp/loads/MCP_14.0.0.0_X/install_scripts/bin to /var/mcp/install directory

• Copy installprops.txt, Staging_A2E-Demo_Small.tags and Staging_A2E-Demo_Small.xml in /var/mcp/loads/MCP_14.0.0.0_X/install_scripts/data to /var/mcp/install directory

• Populate installprops.txt by hand or with script populateInstallpropsFile.pl

• Populate Staging_A2E-Demo_Small.tags by hand or script populateTagsFile.pl

• Execute ./oracleInstall.pl it will install Oracle software to demo laptop

• After oracle install run ./mcpInstall.pl –p installprops.txt –i Staging_A2E-Demo_Small.xml –t Staging_A2E-Demo_Small.tags, this will install MCP in your laptop.

3) Installing MAS on A2E Platform

• Place Setup_linux_platform_14.0.0.30_2009.12.01.bin load in /var/mcp/loads directory with root rights
• chmod 777 Setup_linux_platform_14.0.0.30_2009.12.01.bin for execute right
• ./ Setup_linux_platform_14.0.0.30_2009.12.01.bin
• Accept license agreement and wait till installer ends its job
• Hit Enter to finalize the setup
• After that you need to install other bin files like Setup_linux_Crbt_14[1].0.0.30_2009.12.01.bin etc. with the same method above.

On A2E system, MAS and MCP cannot have the same IP address. Demo laptop has only one ethernet interface. You need to add second IP address to this interface so MAS can use that.

To do that,

# ifconfig eth0:0 192.168.54.17 netmask 255.255.254.0 up

# vim /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0

Add following lines in this script to make this eth0:0 permanent (hey, remember these are my IPs, you should use yours instead)

DEVICE=eth0:0

BOOTPROTO=static

BROADCAST=192.168.55.255

IPADDR=192.168.54.17

NETMASK=255.255.254.0

NETWORK=192.168.54.0

ONBOOT=yes

4) Installing VMware Server on A2E Platform

Standart A2E platform has many rpm files and tools installed, however some basic tools and packets do not exist which are available in other Red Hat release by default. So we need to add some rpm packets by hand. You need to get following 2 packets for installing VMware server.

· make-3.81-1.1.x86_64.rpm

· VMware-server-2.0.1-156745.x86_64.rpm

Then, install them

# rpm -ivh make-3.81-1.1.x86_64.rpm
# rpm -ivh VMware-server-2.0.1-156745.x86_64.rpm

If all rpm installations were successful then we can configure vmware server settings. To do that execute,

# /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl

Follow directions to complete configuration. You need to pay attention 2 major thing in here. First you need to change installation directories and make them in /var/mcp partition (cause default values are small disk size in A2E disk layout). Second, you need to select a main ethernet interface for all bridge connections (it should be eth0)

After configuration is done, you can access vmware server gui via your browser. https://192.168.54.16:8333

You can login with your root/password. After this point you can resume with PLE3 installation

5) Installing A2E BCP Platform on VMware Server

A2E BCP platform requires 40GB of disk space and 2 NICS. You need to create your VM with this specs to avoid any interuption during installation procedure. 40GB of disk space quite large if you use a laptop but remember this not a dedicated space, it is the largest, so no harm to set disk space in 40GB in VMware server menu.

After boot from iso, you can follow OS installation guide and finish the installation. Remember RTP needs different IP than MCP and MAS platforms.