Deploy Robots with Native installers Guidance

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

We need guidance on how to Deploy Robots with Native Installers (broadcom.com)

Environment

Release : UIM 20.4

Cause

Guidance

Resolution

The steps to deploy robots using Native Installers are included in the Techdoc: Deploy Robots in Bulk with a Third-Party Tool and Native Installers (broadcom.com)

Below is a real-life example:

As a preliminary step, ensure that ports are open bidirectionally between robot and hub and that you can telnet:

From HUB to robot on port 48000

and from robot to hub on port 48002

The target system is a cento-os8 linux machine: 

 

1. Answer file prepared as below and saved as nms-robot.vars.cfg. (Leave an empty space at the end of the file)

 

domain=uimserver_domain
hub=uimserver_hub
hubip=10.***.**.44
hubrobotname=uimserver
hubport=48002
robotip=10.***.***.43
first_probe_port=48005

 

 

2. Loaded to /opt the 2 files: 

nimsoft-robot.x86_64.rpm and answer file nms-robot.vars.cfg.

3. Execute on /OPT rpm -ivh nimsoft-robot.x86_64.rpm

4. After this the robot.cfg will look as below: 

 

5. Run the robot configurer script: 

 ./RobotConfigurer.sh

 

6. Finally, start the robot:  

The robot will be listed under the hub: