IBM Director 6.3.2 on CentOS 6.5

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Trying to install IBM Director 6.3.2 on CentOS 6.5

# lvextend -L+5G /dev/sysvg/homelv 
# resize2fs /dev/sysvg/homelv 
# lvextend -L+10G /dev/sysvg/optlv 
# resize2fs /dev/sysvg/optlv 
# lvextend -L+512M /dev/sysvg/tmplv 
# resize2fs /dev/sysvg/tmplv 

Mounted ISO

# mount -o loop /home/amarkelo/SysDir6_3_2_DVD_Linux_x86.iso /mnt

Change kernel.randomize_va_space as recommended by the documentation

sysctl -a | grep 'kernel.randomize_va_space'
2

vi /etc/sysctl.conf
kernel.randomize_va_space = 0

Running the Pre-Installation Utility (PIU):

cd /mnt/server/checkds/
./checkds.sh 

Failed. Need extra packages:

# yum install compat-libstdc++-33.x86_64 compat-libstdc++-33.i686 bc lsof bind-utils libstdc++.i686 zlib.i686 pam.i686 compat-expat1.i686

Need to change SELinux mode to 'permissive'

# vi /etc/selinux/config 
# setenforce 0
# getenforce 
Permissive

Add IP and hostname to /etc/hosts

# vi /etc/hosts

To fight the below OS incompatibility message:

FAIL Check 2: OS Compatibility
xlinux CentOS release 6.5 64 bit
The operating system on which this program is being run is not supported. See the file above for a list of supported
operating systems.

First, was trying to mess around with properties files adding 'CentOS:6+' to os.xlinux lines, but it didn't help. Inspiration came from here

# vi rqmts/lin-server-rqmts_6_3_2.properties 

Then, I just replaced 'CentOS' with 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server' in /etc/redhat-release and it did the trick.

# ./checkds.sh 
Java: /xen/SysDir6_3_2_DVD_Linux_x86/server/checkds/jvm/xlinux/bin/java
Starting IBM Systems Director Pre-Installation Utility...
Finished analysing system
Creating reports... 
Install Readiness Text report being written to /tmp/checkds/reports/checkDS_Text_20140926_020934.txt
Install Readiness Error Text report being written to /tmp/checkds/reports/checkDS_Error.txt
Install Readiness Detailed HTML report being written to /tmp/checkds/reports/checkDS_Detailed_20140926_020934.html
Install Readiness Summary HTML report being written to /tmp/checkds/reports/checkDS_Summary_20140926_020935.html
Unable to launch the default browser, please view the text or summary HTML report manually.

Overall Report Return Code: 0