Hi,

do not use TSM server 6.1, not even if you have no other options. 6.1 does not 
even begin to approach alpha quality software. IBM should never have shipped 
it. I can't think of a single good reason to install 6.1. Go with 6.2.3 or 
newer or 6.3 something.



On 27 feb. 2012, at 22:57, George Huebschman wrote:

> We are getting the "Deployment Engine Failed to Initialize" when running
> ./install.bin for TSM Server 6.1 on a clean new RHEL server.
> I see lots of noise out here about this error, in and out of the TSM world.
> 
> (We have another TSM installation of TSM 6.3 on a VM  that isn't even QA as
> such, just a practice install.)
> Documetation specifies that there be 2GB available in the home directory.
> We only have 1.6 GB, BUT so does the successful 6.3 install.
> We had the error on the first and subsequent 3 attempts to run the
> install.  We did not find any .lock or .lck files.
> I am told that SELINUX is set to permissive.
> 
> Except for the home directory, the other space guidelines were met.
> The install is being done as root.
> 
> Looking at the TSM related posts about this issue, I didn't notice any for
> releases after 6.1.
> Is that because I didn't look hard enough?  Or, was documentation improved,
> or was a bug fixed?
>     Should I talk someone into 6.2 to get past this?
> 
> Most of my experience has been with 5.*
> I have read the install guide (most of it) for 6.2, which is what I thought
> we were installing.  Do I need to step back in documentation?
> 
> 
> --
> George Huebschman
> 
> "When you have a choice, spend money where you would prefer to work if you
> had NO choice."

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