RHEL: Install vFabric tc Server Standard Edition Using RPM

When installing vFabric tc Server (Standard Edition) on a Red Hat Linux Enterprise (RHEL) computer, it is recommended that you use yum to install the RPMs from the VMware package repository.

Prerequisites

Verify that your system meets the supported configurations and installation requirements. See Supported Configurations and System Requirements.
Install the vFabric repository RPMs, which makes it easier for you to browse the vFabric RPMs, including the tc Server RPMs.
There are two vFabric repositories, both located on repo.vmware.com:
- vfabric-5.1-repo-5.1: Contains the vFabric component RPMs that are certified for vFabric Suite 5.1.
- vfabric-all-repo: Contains additional vFabric component RPMs that release after the release of vFabric Suite 5.1, such as maintenance releases of components. These RPMs may not necessarily be certified to work with those of vFabric Suite 5.1. Additionally, the RPMs in vfabric-all-repo might be used by customers who have not bought a vFabric Suite 5.1 Standard or Advanced license.
Each of the preceding repositories has separate URLs for RHEL 5 and RHEL 6.
If you are using only RPMs certified for vFabric Suite 5.1 Advanced or Standard, then you install only vfabric-5.1-repo-5.1. If, however, you are upgrading a vFabric component to a version that has not yet been officially certified for vFabric 5.1, then install both repositories.
1. On the RHEL computer, start a terminal either as the root user or as an unprivileged user using sudo.
2. Install the vfabric-5.1-repo-5.1 RPM, and optionally the vfabric-all-repo RPM, using the rpm command. The URLs of the RPMs differ depending on the version of RHEL you are using.
  For RHEL 5:
```
prompt# rpm -Uvh http://repo.vmware.com/pub/rhel5/vfabric/5.1/vfabric-5.1-repo-5.1-1.noarch.rpm
prompt# rpm -Uvh http://repo.vmware.com/pub/rhel5/vfabric-all/vfabric-all-repo-1-1.noarch.rpm
```
  For RHEL 6:
```
prompt# rpm -Uvh  http://repo.vmware.com/pub/rhel6/vfabric/5.1/vfabric-5.1-repo-5.1-1.noarch.rpm
prompt# rpm -Uvh http://repo.vmware.com/pub/rhel6/vfabric-all/vfabric-all-repo-1-1.noarch.rpm
```
  If necessary, use sudo to run the preceding commands if you are not logged in as the root user.
  You do this step only once. You install the vFabric repository RPMs on each RHEL computer on which you want to install one or more vFabric components, such as vFabric tc Server.
3. Use the yum search vfabric command to view the list of vFabric components that you can install from the VMware repository. For example (output truncated for clarity):
```
prompt# yum search vfabric
...
======================================== Matched: vfabric ========================================
vfabric-eula.noarch : VMware vFabric 5.1 End User License Agreement
vfabric-rabbitmq-java-client-bin.noarch : The RabbitMQ Java Client Library
vfabric-rabbitmq-server.x86_64 : The RabbitMQ server
vfabric-tc-server-standard.noarch : VMware vFabric tc Server Standard
vfabric-web-server.x86_64 : VMware vFabric Web Server
...
```
  The vFabric tc Server RPM is called vfabric-tc-server-standard.

Procedure

From the RHEL computer on which you will install vFabric tc Server, log in as the root user (or as an unprivileged user who has sudo privileges) and start a terminal.
Execute the following yum command:
```
prompt# yum install vfabric-tc-server-standard
```
The yum command begins the install process, resolves dependencies, and displays the packages it plans to install.
If necessary, use sudo to run the preceding command if you are not logged in as the root user.
Enter y at the prompt to begin the actual installation. If you have not already accepted the VMware license terms, a prompt asks you and you must answer yes to continue.
If the installation is successful, you see a Complete! message at the end.

What the yum install command does

The yum command:

Installs vFabric tc Server into the /opt/vmware/vfabric-tc-server-standard directory and sets the owner of the directory, along with all child directories and files, to root:root.
If the user does not already exist, adds a tcserver non-interactive user (in the group vfabric). VMware recommends that you create and run tc Server instances as this user.
Note that you cannot log in directly as the tcserver user because interactive login has been disabled. Rather, you must login as the root user or as a privileged user using sudo, and then su - tcserver.
Creates an empty directory called /var/opt/vmware/vfabric-tc-server-standard and sets the owner to tcserver:vfabric.
VMware recommends that you create new tc Server instances in this directory rather than the installation directory. You do this by specifying the -i option of the tcruntime-instance command.

What to do next

If you installed tc Server standalone, activate a local tc Server license as described in Activate a Local vFabric tc Server License.
If you installed tc Server as part of vFabric Suite, then you should have already activated a network license using the vSphere client, as described in Installation Note for vFabric Suite Customers.
For details about the directories you installed, see Overview of tc Server Directories, Variables, and Configuration Files.
For typical post-installation procedures such as creating tc Runtime instances, starting tc Server components, and getting started with the Hyperic user interface, see Creating and Managing tc Runtime Instances.
Try out the tutorials. See Tutorial: Using Hyperic to Configure and Manage tc Runtime Instances and Tutorial: Very Simple Web Application Development.