Installation Manager overview
- Installing Installation Manager on your target machines
- Managing installations with Installation Manager
- Downloading Installation Manager
- Enterprise Installation articles
Installing Installation Manager on your target machines
- Administrator mode: Installation Manager can only be installed once per machine. This mode is required for packages that require administrator or root privileges to be deployed. Also, the user who launches Installation Manager must be a member of the “Administrators” group on Windows or have root privileges on UNIX, Linux, IBM i, IBM z/OS®, and OS X operating systems.
- Non-administrator mode: Installation Manager can be installed once per user. This mode is useful when users have their own copy of an application. Those copies are managed separately by the respective user accounts. However, in this mode, packages that require administrator access cannot be installed.
- Group mode: Use this mode when you use multiple user accounts to manage the installed applications. In group mode, a group of users share packages. This mode is only available on Linux, UNIX, IBM z/OS, and OS X platforms. It is not available on Windows or IBM i. Packages must be enabled for group mode. Check the documentation for your package to determine whether the package is enabled for group mode.
After you use one user's account to install the product in nonadministrator mode, that installation cannot be transferred to another user's account.
Managing installations with Installation Manager
Wizards guide you through the steps that you must take to install, modify, update, roll back, or uninstall your IBM products. Use Installation Manager to install individual software packages on your local computer, or with IBM Packaging Utility to install software for an enterprise. For information about the various methods that you can use to run the software, see Installation Manager modes.
Downloading Installation Manager
To download the installation files, go to the Installation Manager download links technical document and click the applicable download document link. The download document contains details about downloading the installation files.