System Requirements and Setup › Installation Prerequisites

Installation Prerequisites

Before you install the product, check the following prerequisites:

• Privileges required

  In order to install CA XCOM Management Center on Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 2003, or Microsoft Windows 2008, you must log on to Microsoft Windows as a user with administrator privileges. On UNIX or Linux, you must log on as a user with root privileges if installing into the /opt/CA system directory.

• System Libraries for Linux

  The CA Embedded Entitlements Manager (EEM) installation requires library libstdc++.so.6 to exist in the usr/lib directory. This library can be installed from rpm libstdc++ if it has not been previously installed as part of your operating system.

• JBoss installation

  CA XCOM Management Center requires that a copy of the JBoss Application Server must be installed. Additionally, even though the JBOSS_HOME environment variable is recommended but not mandated by JBoss, it is always required by CA XCOM Management Center. Before installing CA XCOM Management Center, verify that this environment variable is defined and correctly set to indicate the path for the JBoss installation directory.

  For Windows, environment variables can be accessed in either of the following ways:

  • By right clicking Computer or My Computer within Windows Explorer
  • By right clicking the Start Menu, then selecting Properties, Advanced Settings, Environment Variables

  For Linux, set environment variables as follows:

  1. Open the /etc/profile file in the vi editor.
  2. Move to the end.
  3. Add the following lines:

     JAVA_HOME=<JDK Installation Directory Path>
     export JAVA_HOME
     JBOSS_HOME=<JBOSS Installation Directory Path>
     export JBOSS_HOME
     

  Note: Use this procedure to set the environment variables permanently on any of the supported Linux platforms.

• Database preparation

  CA XCOM Management Center needs access to a DB2 or MySQL database server; the product installer automatically creates the required database tables within a designated database.

  Notes:

  • For MySQL, the installer can either create a new database or use an existing one.
  • For DB2, the installer is unable to create a new database and this must be done using DB2 administration tools before installing CA XCOM Management Center.

  To enable creation of tables (and optionally, for MySQL only, the creation of a database), the installer requests the following:

  • The user ID and related password for a database administration user account that has the necessary create and drop structure privileges.
  • The user ID and related password for a database user account that is to be used subsequently by CA XCOM Management Center whenever it needs to access or update its database tables.

    This second account requires read and update privileges for all tables within the CA XCOM Management Center database, but does not need any structure or administration privileges or access to any other database.

  • To enable database access by CA XCOM Management Center, the installer also requires a copy of the JDBC connector/driver for the appropriate database system. In the case of DB2 only, a copy of the JDBC Driver License is also needed.
• Free disk space

  Approximately 40 MB of disk space is required for the software files created by a full product installation of CA XCOM Management Center. In addition, disk space is required for the CA XCOM Management Center database, logs, and trace files. The amount of space needed varies, depending on the size of the database.

• CA XCOM Data Transport r11.5 server

  Your CA XCOM Data Transport r11.5 server must be installed before you can install CA XCOM Management Center.

  Note: Your CA XCOM Data Transport r11.5 server does not need to be on the same system as where you are installing CA XCOM Management Center.