Install

Install

The following section leads you through the installation process of the containerized HPE Operations Bridge Suite. The installation involves multiple steps for each capability that you want to set up.

To learn more about the capabilities of the Operations Bridge Suite, see Get started.

Important The container-based deployment currently allows you to install the capabilities of the Express and Premium versions of the Operations Bridge Suite. Capabilities of the Ultimate version must be installed separately.

The high-level process of installing the Operations Bridge Suite is as follows:

  1. Prerequisites. You must have an active support contract, and obtain an Operations Bridge Suite license on the HPE Software Entitlement Portal.
  2. Create a Docker account, and send the Docker ID, your company name, contact information, HPE Passport email address, and SAID to HPE to be able to access the Suite container images.
    Send your email to one of the addresses below, based on your location:

    HPE will enable your Docker ID and send you a confirmation.

  3. Prepare one or more systems or VMs for the suite installation.
  4. Start the installation as described in Installation.

    1. Install a dedicated NFS server, or decide to use the first master node as the NFS server.
    2. Install the ITOM Platform on the master node.
    3. Log on to the ITOM Platform.
    4. Install the ITOM Platform on the worker nodes.
    5. Install the Operations Bridge Suite.

The master node coordinates all activity in your cluster, such as scheduling applications, maintaining applications' desired state, scaling applications, and rolling out new updates. Worker nodes run the applications. A node is a VM or a physical computer that serves as a worker machine in a Kubernetes cluster.
A Kubernetes cluster that handles production traffic should have a minimum of one master and three worker nodes.