In this recipe, we will install the SCR Tool on the RHEL VM we prepared earlier.
You should have made sure that all the prerequisites form the previous recipes have been met.
Download the latest version of SCR from http://www.vmware.com/, at the time of writing, it was SCR 6.1.21. Copy the ZIP file to the /tmp
directory of the SCR VM.
We also need login credentials for vendors such as RHEL and SUSE so that we can encrypt the password for later use in the configuration files.
Log in to the SCR VM with root credentials and follow these steps to install and perform base configuration of SCR.
Create the
/opt/SCR
folder with this command:mkdir /opt/SCR
From now on, we will refer to this location as
scr_root
Unzip the SCR installation files:
tar -zxvf /tmp/SCR-vmware-6.1.21.tar.gz -c /opt/SCR