Installing and using Installation Manager
Read the following topics.
- Installation Manager modes
Consider the various methods that you can use to run Installation Manager.
- Installation kit
Every product is packaged and delivered differently. You can download the installation kit for a product or you can obtain product disks that contain an installation kit.
- Master setup disk
Every product is packaged and delivered differently. Some products provide a master setup disk, a prepackaged collection of offerings that is contained on a single disk. The master setup disk, which contains a table of contents that lists the offerings that are included on the disk, references other disk sets to install multiple offerings. You cannot add offerings to the prepackaged master setup disk. However, you can omit offerings by not downloading and extracting them.
- Installation Manager features
Some Installation Manager features might or might not be supported by packages.
- Installing or updating Installation Manager
Learn how to install or update Installation Manager.
- Package groups and the shared resources directory
When you install packages with Installation Manager, you must choose an installation location and a directory for shared resources.
- Unsupported characters for the installation path
Some characters cannot be used in a path when you install Installation Manager.
- Searching web, local help, and remote documentation centers together
When you have an Internet connection, you can add multiple documentation centers and searchable websites to a list for searching. When you enter a search term, all of the locations are searched at the same time from within your Installation Manager local help.
- Sensitive data
Data is provided during an install, update, modify, roll back, or uninstall process that must be protected.
- Administrator, nonadministrator, and group mode
You can use Installation Manager in administrator mode, nonadministrator mode, or group mode.
- Group mode roadmaps and the user interface
On Linux, UNIX, IBM z™/OS , and the OS X platforms, users can share packages in a common location and manage the packages with the same instance ofInstallation Manager by using group mode.
- Backing up and restoring Installation Manager
You can back up Installation Manager by using operating system functions, or by using a backup tool.