Install an integrated installation package (IIP) with the
installation wizard
Before you begin
Before you use the installation tools, read this topic
to prepare for installation and to learn about installation options.
Also read the hardware and software requirements on the Supported hardware and software Web site to
get started.
The installer ID can be a non-root
user ID. However, some installation procedures might require the installer
ID to be the root user. Please consider all of the included contributions
as they relate to user type. For example, if you are using the root
ID you may need to pass non-root user contribution options into a
contribution you will need to use -iipUserType=nonroot.
About this task
You must use the Installation Factory to create an IIP
before you can install the IIP. See Developing and installing integrated installation packages for
more information about creating an IIP. To install an IIP silently
see Installing an IIP silently.
The
installation wizard installs each contribution in the order which
was defined by the user during IIP creation. Although the IIP installer
does not perform any prerequisite checking, each contribution installer
will perform its own checking and will fail if the workstation has
not met the system requirements for that product.
Procedure
- Plan your installation.
See Introduction: Planning for WebSphere ESB.
- Prepare your operating platform for installation.
You
must prepare your operating system to install all of the various products
which are in the IIP or a contribution might fail. Review the prerequisites
for each product before installing the IIP. Please see System Requirements for WebSphere Application Server V6.1 for
more information on prerequisites for the application server products.
Mount
the drive if necessary.
- Insert the CD or DVD with the IIP into the disc drive,
or access the directory where the IIP is located. If the IIP is on
disc, you must use the -iipLogFile parameter to redirect
the log location because the installer will not be able to write a
log to the media. See Installing an IIP silently for
the available installation command line and response file parameters.
Mount the drive if necessary.
- Start the installation directly with the install command.
Note: If you launch the
installation using standard user privileges, you are presented with
an elevation prompt for Administrator privileges before you are allowed
to continue, regardless of whether you are an administrator user.
You can avoid this prompt by running the installation in the following
way:
- Right-click install.exe.
- Click Run As Administrator.
If you are a non-administrator user, you may have another
step if you are prompted for a user ID and password.
- The installer wizard initializes and the Welcome panel
is displayed.
Click About to
see information about the author, organization, version, and all included
packages. Click Next.
- The Installation selection panel is displayed.
This
panel lists all of the contribution invocations in the IIP, and their
properties, in the order that they will be invoked. You may only change
certain properties of each contribution depending on whether the IIP
creator decided to allow those user changes at runtime. The Description
field beneath the contributions table is read-only and will change
depending on which contribution is selected.
- Installation name
Specifies the installation
name of the selected package. This is read only.
- Status
Specifies whether the package
is selected to be installed or is deselected before installation based
on whether the check box at the beginning of the row has been selected.
Deselected packages are skipped by the IIP install wizard during installation.
If you remove a package which is a prerequisite for another package
then you are unable to install the next package. For example, if you
deselect the application server package , then you are unable to install
a feature pack if you have no existing application server on the workstation
in the target directory.
This field also indicates the installation
status of the package during and after installation. At the end of
each installation, the status field shows whether the installation
was successful. If it was not successful, the IIP will run the exit
code action which you or the IIP creator specified for that package.
The available status codes are the following:
- Success
The package installed successfully.
- Fail
The package failed to install.
- Partial Success
The package installed
successfully, but certain post-installation scripts failed to complete
successfully.
- CanceledByUser
The package installer
was canceled by the user.
- Unknown
The package installer failed
to complete successfully with unknown errors.
- Installation mode
Specifies whether the
selected installation package installs interactively with a wizard
or silently using the specified response file.
- Installation directory
Specifies the
target installation directory for the selected installation package.
- Response file directory path and file name
Specifies
the response file location for the selected installation package.
A response file must be specified if you are installing the selected
package silently.
Select an invocation and click Modify to
edit the properties which are available to you. Once you have modified
all of the necessary options, click Install to
begin the installation.
- The installation begins. You can track the status of each
contribution with the Installation progress bar
at the bottom of the panel. At the end of each installation, the status
field shows whether the installation was successful. There is also
a progress bar which shows the status of the overall IIP installation.
If a contribution fails to install, then the IIP installer
will perform one of three actions which you or the IIP creator specified
for that contribution invocation that are associated with that exit
code:
Table 1. Exit code actionsAction |
Description |
Ask user whether to stop or to continue the
installation |
Control is returned to the IIP installer wizard
and you are prompted to perform some action. For example, you can
change the selection of remaining contributions to install, stop installing,
or continue installing without changing the current package installation. |
Continue installing the integrated installation
package |
The exit code will be ignored and the IIP installation
process will continue to the next installation package invocation. |
Stop installing the integrated installation
package |
The package installation process will be stopped
and control is returned to the IIP installer. |
A contribution installation that is a partial success
or has been cancelled by the user will return control to the IIP installer
which will perform one of three actions associated with the exit code
in Table 1. The default is Stop installing the integrated installation
package unless specified otherwise during IIP creation.
If
you click Cancel on the IIP installation wizard
at any time during the installation, the current package will continue
installing until it is completed but the remaining contributions will
not be installed. You can modify the remaining contributions and continue
the installation or you can choose to exit the installation wizard.
If you click Cancel before the installation
of any packages, the installer will exit the wizard after prompting
you with a confirmation dialog window.
- Click the View Log button next to
the packages list to view the log for the selected package. You can
also choose to browse for the log file and view it through a text
editor of your choice. Please consult that product's documentation
for log file locations.
You can view the overall IIP
log file by clicking the
View Log button next
to the installation status section. You can also view the log through
a text editor of your choice by opening it directly:
- Click Finish to exit the installation
wizard.
Results
You have installed an integrated installation package.
What to do next
Note: If an included contribution fails to install, you might
need to edit that contribution's response file, which is different
from the overall IIP response file. By default, contribution response
files are located in IIP_home/ResponseFiles.