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installms Command

Name

installms - Installs CSM on a management server.

Synopsis

installms [-f] [-h][ -v | -V] [[-x ]-p pkg_path]

Description

This installms command is used to install CSM on a Management Server. It can be used to automatically install both CSM and its prerequisite packages.

A supported level of the Linux operating system must already be installed on the system.

The installms command will copy the CSM packages and their required prerequisite packages to the correct CSM directory. The packages must be copied to the correct CSM directory so that they will be available when installing CSM on the nodes of the cluster. If installms cannot find the required Red Hat packages it will prompt you to insert the Red Hat CD-ROMs. If installms has been run before and all the correct levels of packages have been copied to the CSM directory, you can tell installms to not copy the packages again by supplying the -x flag.

The correct CSM directory for the CSM packages and open source prerequisites is /csminstall/Linux/RedHat/csm/<InstallCSMVersion>/packages, where InstallCSMVersion is in the format: "<version.release.mod>". For example:

1.2.0

The CSM directory for the required packages from the Red Hat CD-ROMs is: /csminstall/Linux/RedHat/<InstallDistributionVersion>/RedHat/RPMS. Where InstallDistributionVersion is either 7.1 or 7.2.

Options

-f
Forces installation regardless of the status of the existing installation.

-h
Writes the command's usage statement to standard output.

-v | -V
Writes the command's verbose messages to standard output.

-x
Do not copy packages.

-p pkg_path
Specifies one or more directories, separated by colons, where packages can be found. To copy from the CD-ROM, use /mnt/cdrom.

Examples

  1. To install CSM and copy CSM packages from the CD-ROM:
    installms -p /mnt/cdrom
    
  2. To create a CSM Management Server using the packages contained in the current directory, type:
    installms -p .
    
  3. To install a CSM Management Server node using the CSM 1.2.0 packages that were previously copied to the /csminstall/Linux/RedHat/csm/1.2.0/packages directory.
    installms -x 
    

Exit Status

0
The command has run successfully.

1
An error has occurred.

Files

/var/log/csm/installms.log
Location of the log file on the management server for the installms command. Up to five copies of this log are maintained. Old logs receive a numeric suffix up to 4. The oldest file is installms.log.4.

See Also

Author

Sean Safron - cluster@us.ibm.com


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