WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, Version 6.2.0 Operating Systems: AIX, HP-UX, i5/OS, Linux, Solaris, Windows


Installing silently on i5/OS from a Windows workstation command line

One installation alternative is to install WebSphere® ESB for i5/OS® from a Windows® workstation command line.

Before you begin

Prepare for the installation before using this procedure. See Prerequisites for installing WebSphere ESB and Preparing i5/OS systems for installation for more information.

Note: The installation path cannot contain parentheses. You cannot install over an existing WebSphere Application Server installation that contains parentheses in the installation path.

About this task

The remote silent mode allows you to install the product with a single command from a remote Windows workstation. Installation options must be specified in a response file. During the installation, you are unable to change the installation options. The parameters and default values are described in responsefile.wesb.txt for command-line installation.
Procedure
  1. If TCP/IP is not started on your System i® server, enter the Start TCP/IP (STRTCP) command on the Control Language (CL) command line.
  2. Verify that the host server jobs are started on your System i server. The host server jobs allow the installation code to run on i5/OS.

    On a CL command line, enter the following command:

    STRHOSTSVR SERVER(*ALL)
  3. Verify that your user profile has the *ALLOBJ and *SECADM special authorities.
  4. Place the WebSphere ESB for i5/OS disk in the disk drive of your Windows workstation. The autorun feature brings up the GUI. Click Cancel to exit the GUI.

    Do not use the WebSphere ESB for Windows disk or any other operating system disk other than the disk for i5/OS.

  5. On your Windows workstation, open a command prompt.
  6. Access the disk drive of your Windows workstation by switching to the disk drive. For example, enter e: where e: is the letter assigned to your DVD drive.
  7. Change to the WBI directory. For example: cd WBI.
  8. Copy the response file from the disk directory to a directory on your Windows workstation, such as the C:\temp directory.

    For example:

    copy responsefile.wesb.txt C:\temp\RESPONSEFILE
  9. If you have not already done so, read the IBM® International Program License Agreement located in the \LICENSES directory.

    If you agree to the terms of the agreement, continue with the installation process.

  10. Edit the RESPONSEFILE file.
    1. Change the value for -OPT silentInstallLicenseAcceptance from false to true.

      A value of true indicates that you have read and accept the terms of the license agreement. This change is required to run the installation.

    2. By default, the PROF_enableAdminSecurity option is set to true. If you want to enable administrative security for the default profile created during install, you must specify values for the PROF_adminUserName and PROF_adminPassword options.

      The user ID and password do not need to be a system user ID and password or an LDAP user ID and password. The ID-and-password pair specified are stored in the user registry and used for administrative security for the default profile. If you specify WebSphere local security, the userid must be a valid user profile. If you specify an LDAP registry, the userid must be a member of that registry. Write down the user ID and password.

      If you do not want to enable administrative security for the default profile, change the value for the PROF_enableAdminSecurity option from true to false.

    Note: The Samples feature is not installed with the product by default. If you want to use the samples, perform the following actions:
    • Specify sampleSelected for the -OPT addFeature option.
    • Specify a value for the -OPT samplesPassword option if you are enabling security.
  11. Run the install.exe command. Specify the response file to use during the installation. Specify the i5/OS system name and a valid i5/OS user profile and password when you run this command.
    Your user profile must have *ALLOBJ and *SECADM special authorities for this step.
     install.exe system_name user_name password -options response_file -silent

    The system_name variable is the name of your System i server. The user_name variable and the password variable are your user profile login credentials, and the response_file variable is the name of your response file.

    The password used in this command is displayed in clear text on the command line. For example:
     install.exe MYISERIES myUserName myPassword 
     -options C:\temp\RESPONSEFILE -silent

    After you issue the command, control returns to the command prompt while the installation process runs.

Results

This procedure results in installing WebSphere ESB from a Windows workstation command line.

What to do next

Verify the success of the installation by examining the log.txt log file. The log file is located in the directory install_root/logs/wbi/install/log.txt on the System i server, where install_root represents the location of the WebSphere ESB.

If this log file contains the string INSTCONFSUCCESS on the last line, then the installation was successful. Note that other terms such as INSTCONFPARTIALSUCCESS or INSTCONFFAILED can occur on other lines within the file, or even on the last line, but if INSTCONFSUCCESS is included in the last line, the installation was successful.

If the string INSTCONFPARTIALSUCCESS or INSTCONFFAILED appears in the last line of the file without INSTCONFSUCCESS, problems were detected during installation. INSTCONFPARTIALSUCCESS indicates that the installation completed but errors were generated; INSTCONFFAILED, that the installation failed completely.

If the installation was unsuccessful, examine the install_error.log file to determine why. This log file is located by default on the System i server in the directory install_root/logs/wbi/install/install_error.log.

If the installation failed completely, also examine any temporary log files located by default in the directory user_home/wbilogs.

See the description of all log files in Installation and profile creation log files.


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