Installing All-in-One on Linux in interactive mode (BigFix scenario)

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To install all components of License Metric Tool by using the All-in-One installer in interactive mode, run the setup-server-linux-x86_64.sh script. Then, follow instructions in the installation wizard.

Before you begin

Ensure that the computer meets the following requirements:
- A graphical user interface is available
- X server is configured
- DISPLAY variable is set properly
Run the installation as root.
Ensure that the /home directory is a directory with write permissions to allow for the DB2 installation. The use of an automounted directory is not supported.
Ensure that the /opt directory is a directory with execute and write permissions. It is an internal requirement of BigFix®.

Procedure

Authorize the All-in-One installation with a set of license files. If the computer on which you are running the installation has the Internet access, the license files are created during the installation. If the computer does not have the Internet access, or if for some other reason you cannot create the license files during the installation, run a license generator and create license files in offline mode.

Note: If you decide to create license files in offline mode on a computer that has the access to Internet, make sure that you continue the installation in the same command session.
Go to the directory where you downloaded the installation package, and extract the installation files.
```
tar xvf installation_package
```
To start the installation, run the setup-server-linux-x86_64.sh script.
```
./setup-server-linux-x86_64.sh
```
When prompted, choose License Metric Tool server, IBM DB2 and HCL BigFix to install all components on one computer.
Provide details for the installation of DB2: installation path, home directory, and a password for the DB2 instance owner. The default username is db2inst1.

Important: Ensure that the password for the DB2 instance owner meets the requirements that are specific for the operating system on which you are installing DB2. Otherwise, the installation fails.
Provide details for the installation of BigFix: installation path for the BigFix server, and password for the IEMAdmin administrative user. Also, verify the installation path and specify the port number for Web Reports.

Attention: Ensure that you remember the first password that you specify for the IEMAdmin administrative user. The password is the same for the private key that is one of the license files that is mentioned in step 7. If you lose the private key file or forget its password, a new license certificate needs to be created, which requires a new installation.
Depending on whether the computer can access the Internet or not, either provide your details to create new license files or specify the directory with the license files.

Attention: Ensure that the files are stored in a secure folder. If you lose the private key file or forget its password, a new license certificate needs to be created, which requires a new installation.
- If the computer can access the Internet, specify the host name of the computer on which you are performing the installation, and the port number that will be used by BigFix. Choose the key size to encrypt your license and specify a directory to save the license files.
- If the computer cannot access the Internet, provide the path to the directory with license files.
Create the administrative user of License Metric Tool. This user is required to log in to the application.

Tip: Avoid using admin, administrator, root or a similar name for the administrative account. Such an account might be prone to hacker attacks and locked out if an attacker exceeds the specified number of failed login attempts. For more information about the account lockout, see: Configuring user account lockout.
Provide the installation path for the License Metric Tool server.
Specify the port number that will be used by the browser to display the License Metric Tool web user interface, and the port number that will be used by the local VM Manager Tool.
Verify the installation details, and click Install to start the installation.

Note: If the installation fails, you can run the cleanlmtenv.sh script to remove all components of License Metric Tool that were installed so far and start a fresh installation. For more information, see: Removing all components after a failed installation (BigFix scenario).
When the installation is complete, click Done to open the License Metric Tool web user interface in the browser.

If you do not have a browser installed, you can access the web user interface from a different computer at https://host_name:port, where host_name is the host name of the computer where the License Metric Tool server is installed, and port is the port that you specified during the installation, by default: 9081.

Results

Wait for the initial setup to complete. After it completes, software and capacity scans are automatically scheduled on the computers in your infrastructure according to the default scan configuration. Data that they collect should be displayed on the License Metric Tool reports. However, the newly set-up environment needs time to finish the scans and to upload their results to the server. If the reports do not contain any data after the first import, wait about an hour until the scans are completed. Then, run another import.

What to do next

Install the BigFix console.

To increase security of the transferred data, it is recommended to enable encrypted connection to the License Metric Tool database. For more information, see: Enabling encrypted connection to the database.