Starting Installation Manager
You can use different options to manually start the Installation
Manager wizard.
- Using a response file to start Installation Manager
- Starting Installation Manager in another language
- Starting Installation Manager with the -secureStorageFile option
- Starting Installation Manager with the -enterpriseDeploymentTools option
From the installation location of Installation Manager, you can run the IBMIM application file to start Installation Manager in wizard mode manually.
Note:
For Windows, use IBMIM.exe. The launcher.exe is deprecated.
For Linux, UNIX, and the OS X operating system, use the ./IBMIM command. The ./launcher command is deprecated.
Operating system | Administrator | Nonadministrator | Group |
---|---|---|---|
Windows XP Professional | C:\Program Files\IBM\Installation Manager | C:\Documents and Settings\user\IBM\Installation Manager\eclipse | Not available. |
Windows Vista, Windows 2008, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 2012 | C:\Program Files [(x86)]\IBM\Installation Manager\eclipse | C:\Users\user\IBM\Installation Manager\eclipse | |
Linux and UNIX | /opt/IBM/InstallationManager/eclipse | /user_home_directory/IBM/InstallationManager/eclipse | /user_home_directory/IBM/InstallationManager_Group/eclipse |
OS X operating system | /Applications/IBM/Installation Manager/eclipse | /Users/user/var/ibm/Installation Manager/eclipse | /Users/user/var/ibm/Installation Manager Group/eclipse |
Note:
- On the OS X operating system, you might be prompted to enter your credentials to run Installation Manager with administrator privileges.
- Some platforms do not support the graphical user interface (GUI) for Installation Manager. See the System Requirements technical document.
Using a response file to start Installation Manager
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Procedure
Example
Operating system | Command |
---|---|
Windows | IBMIM input response_file |
Linux, UNIX, and the OS X operating | ./IBMIM input response_file |
Starting Installation Manager in another language
From the command line, you can start Installation
Manager by
specifying a language.
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The following list contains the languages and the language
codes that are currently supported by Installation
Manager:
- Arabic (ar)
- Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR)
- Catalan (ca)
- Croatian (hr)
- Czech (cs)
- Danish (da)
- Dutch (nl)
- English (en)
- Finnish (fi)
- French (fr)
- German (de)
- Greek (el)
- Hebrew ( iw)
- Hungarian (hu)
- Indonesian (in)
- Italian (it)
- Japanese (ja)
- Korean (ko)
- Lithuanian (lt)
- Norwegian (no)
- Polish (pl)
- Portuguese (pt)
- Russian (ru)
- Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)
- Slovak (sk)
- Slovenian (sl)
- Spanish (es)
- Swedish (sv)
- Thai (th)
- Traditional Chinese (zh_HK)
- Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) (zh_TW)
- Turkish (tr)
Note: Some
languages support only partial translations. When a language is partially
translated, the non-translated content is presented in English.
Procedure
Example
Operating system | Command |
---|---|
Windows | IBMIM -nl language_code |
Linux, UNIX, and the OS X operating system | ./IBMIM -nl language_code |
Starting Installation Manager with the -secureStorageFile option
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Procedure
Example
Operating system | Command |
---|---|
Windows | IBMIM -secureStorageFile storage_file -masterPasswordFile master_password_file |
Linux, UNIX, and the OS X operating system | ./IBMIM -secureStorageFile storage_file -masterPasswordFile master_password_file |
What to do next
Note: Starting in version
1.7, if you do not specify the -secureStorageFile and -masterPasswordFile options,
Installation Manager uses the Equinox Secure Storage mechanism from
Eclipse by default to store credentials and generate a default storage
file that is secured with a predefined password. In older versions,
a key ring file was used to store the credentials by default. The
key ring file is not supported by version 1.6.2 and later.
Note: After
you upgrade to version 1.7 or later, you cannot authenticate with
secure storage files that were created in an earlier version. You
must re-create those secure storage files.
Starting Installation Manager with the -enterpriseDeploymentTools option
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Procedure
Example
Operating system | Command |
---|---|
Windows | IBMIM -enterpriseDeploymentTools |
Linux, UNIX, and the OS X operating system | ./IBMIM -enterpriseDeploymentTools |