Installing a Standalone Instance of ArcMC

You can install a standalone instance of ArcMC in your environment to manage your SmartConnectors. The installer for the standalone ArcMC includes a built-in temporary license. Please request a permanent license from the OpenText SaaS team or your OpenText representative. For more information, see the Arcsight Management Center Administrator’s Guide.

If you install the connector on a virtual machine, enable NTP for both host and guest systems to ensure proper timekeeping. For more information, see “Timekeeping best practices for Linux guests (1006427)” on the VMWare Customer Connect website.

  1. Review the requirements for installing ArcMC and SmartConnectors in your environment:

    1. Prerequisites for Installation in the Arcsight Management Center Administrator’s Guide

    2. Planning to Install and Deploy in the Installation Guide for ArcSight SmartConnectors

  1. To download the files, you will need your AWS IAM user and the information provided by the OpenText SaaS team:

      1. Log in to the Amazon S3 Console as the AWS IAM user that you created for data ingestion.

      2. To download data ingestion component installers from the S3 bucket, browse to the URL provided by the OpenText SaaS team.

        By default, the URL uses the format https://s3.console.aws.amazon.com/s3/buckets/<tenant bucket name>/connector-download/.

        For example: https://s3.console.aws.amazon.com/s3/buckets/222222222-ap-southeast-1-secopstn01-avro/connector-download/

      3. Click your user name, and then select Switch Roles from the user menu.

        If you performed the Switch Roles procedure earlier and did not clear the browser cache, the role to switch to appears under Role History which you can select, skip step 4, and save time.

      4. Click the Switch Role button and enter the following details you received from the OpenText SaaS team to download the data ingestion component installers:

        1. Account

        2. Role

        3. (Optional) Display Name

        4. (Optional) Color

      5. Click Switch Role.

  2. Download the installation files for ArcMC.

  3. Install ArcMC.

  4. Apply your ArcMC license.

  5. (Conditional) Apply patches to ArcMC as needed.

    The files provided by OpenText might include a patch.

  6. Install and configure SmartConnectors.
  7. Add standalone SmartConnector to be managed by ArcMC.