CA IdentityMinder Provisioning Server r12 Installation Error in RedHat Linux

Environment Details:

Redhat Linux 6.4

CA IdentityMinder r12.6 SP2

CA Directory r12

=========================/tmp/kernparmchk.out===================================

* ERROR * ERROR * ERROR * ERROR * ERROR * ERROR * ERROR *

The following tunable kernel parameters have values lower

than the minimum required values for this CA product

on this platform.

Installation cannot continue.

Please examine the current and required values below.

Parameter   Current value   Required value

---------   -------------   -----------------

semmni                128            258

This installation procedure will now terminate.

Please update the kernel parameters shown above, then

run this installation again.

This information is saved in file /tmp/kernparmchk.out

for your future reference.

For more information, see the file readme_install.txt in:

/opt/dump/GEN06161536E/Provisioning/ProvisioningServer/linux/ecs-installation

=============================imps_server_install.log===============================

Install, com.ca.etrust.install.product.InstallEtrustCommonServices, err, ProductException: (error code = -1; message="Installing CA Enterprise Common Services failed.")

STACK_TRACE: 13

ProductException: (error code = -1; message="Installing CA Enterprise Common Services failed.")

       at com.ca.etrust.install.product.InstallEtrustCommonServices.install(InstallEtrustCommonServices.java:235)

       at com.installshield.product.service.product.PureJavaProductServiceImpl.installProductAction(PureJavaProductServiceImpl.java:1916)

       at com.ibm.wizard.platform.linux.LinuxProductServiceImpl.installProductAction(LinuxProductServiceImpl.java:552)

       at com.installshield.product.service.product.PureJavaProductServiceImpl$InstallProduct.getResultForProductAction(PureJavaProductServiceImpl.java:5195)

       at com.installshield.product.service.product.InstallableObjectVisitor.visitComponent(InstallableObjectVisitor.java:369)

       at com.installshield.product.service.product.InstallableObjectVisitor.visitInstallableComponents(InstallableObjectVisitor.java:333)

       at com.installshield.product.service.product.InstallableObjectVisitor.visitProductBeans(InstallableObjectVisitor.java:133)

       at com.installshield.product.service.product.PureJavaProductServiceImpl$InstallProduct.install(PureJavaProductServiceImpl.java:4563)

       at com.installshield.product.service.product.PureJavaProductServiceImpl$Installer.execute(PureJavaProductServiceImpl.java:3758)

       at com.installshield.wizard.service.AsynchronousOperation.run(AsynchronousOperation.java:41)

       at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

(Jul 8, 2013 5:21:47 AM), Install, com.ibm.wizard.platform.linux.LinuxProductServiceImpl, msg1, uninstalling Install Etrust Common Services (installECS)

Solution:

1. To check the current semmni value:

cat /proc/sys/kernel/sem

or

ipcs -ls

2. Login using an user account with the administrative privilege and run the below command to set the "semmni" value to 258 as suggested by CA:

sysctl -w kernel.sem="250 32000 100 258"