The Installation Factory is provided on the product media.
The latest version can also be downloaded from the IBM® support site.
Procedure
- Obtain a copy of the appropriate Installation Factory archive
file for your operating system.
Option |
Description |
From the product media. |
Copy the appropriate archive from the /IF directory
on the product media to a local directory on your system. |
From the IBM support
site. |
- Download the base Installation Factory tool. Select "WebSphere®" for the category
and WebSphere Application Server for
the sub category. Click the right arrow button. On the subsequent
page click tools and utilities. The Installation
Factory download page should be listed. Download the appropriate archive
file for the operating system of the workstation on which you intend
to work.
- Download the Installation Factory plug-in for WebSphere ESB. Select "WebSphere" for the category
and WebSphere ESB for
the sub category. Click the right arrow button. On the subsequent
page click tools and utilities. The Installation
Factory download page should be listed. Download the appropriate archive
file for the operating system of the workstation on which you intend
to work.
Note: The Installation Factory can be used on one operating system
to create installation packages for a different operating system.
However not all combinations are supported. Please consult the list
of supported operating systems before deciding on which platform to
install the Installation Factory.
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- Extract the archive file to an otherwise empty directory.
- Optional: Add the bin directory
from your expanded package to your path environment variable. Adding the bin directory to the path variable allows you
to access the Installation Factory commands from any directory on
your system without qualifying the path to that command.
- Optional: Ensure that all users who will need
to use the Installation Factory have write permission to the logs directory
in the install directory. If you do
not make this directory writable to all Installation Factory users,
the user will need to use the -logFile and -traceFile options
when they invoke Installation Factory commands to change the location
of the log and trace files that will be created.
What to do next
The Installation Factory is ready to use.