SiteMinder : Agent / Policy server install fails with disk space required

Products

• CA Workload Automation AE - Business Agents (AutoSys)
• CA Workload Automation AE - Scheduler (AutoSys)
• Workload Automation Agent

Issue/Introduction

The server has limited space available in the /tmp directory, we set $INSTBASE to /var/tmp
directory with more space.

INSTBASE=/var/tmp;export INSTBASE

and used the sudo command to run the Silent Agent installation as we cannot install the agent logged on natively as root.:

sudo IATEMPDIR=/var/tmp;export IATEMPDIR && /var/tmp/setup.bin -f unix_installer_PRD_Linux.txt

The installation  fails with the following errors:

en_needMoreSpace=WARNING! The amount of $INSTBASE disk space required to perform this installation is greater than what is available.
Please free up at least $free_up kilobytes in $INSTBASE and attempt this installation again.
 

 

Environment

WA Agent  / Policy Server All versions on LINUX Server

Cause

The server has limited space available in the /tmp directory

Resolution

Set the following variables in a temp shell script and execute temp shell script before running the AE installer as sudo.

sudo
IATEMPDIR=/var/tmp; export IATEMPDIR;
TEMPDIR=/var/tmp;  export TEMPDIR;
TMPDIR=/var/tmp; export TMPDIR;
AS_SKIP_SPACE_CHECK=1; export AS_SKIP_SPACE_CHECK && /var/tmp/setup.bin -f unix_installer_PRD_Linux.txt

 

The AS_SKIP_SPACE_CHECK will cause the product not to use the disk space checks.

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