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Preparing for installation
Use the instructions in this tutorial for an overview of the installation tasks, and to prepare for installation of WebSphere® Message Broker.
- Required: Make sure that you have acquired the product
packages that you need for installation.
Physical and electronic packages are available for WebSphere Message Broker.
For more information about available packages and their contents, see Installation packages. If you have ordered the product for electronic delivery from IBM® Passport Advantage®, check that you have downloaded all the images that you need for all components and all platforms.
Both DVDs and CDs are supplied in the physical package, and electronic images are available from IBM Passport Advantage. The electronic images images that are available from IBM Passport Advantage contain the same content as the physical DVDs and CDs, but might be greater in number.
For example, a physical DVD might contain installation files for the Broker component, WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit, and WebSphere MQ, whereas IBM Passport Advantage might provide an electronic images image for the Broker component, three images for the WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit, and another image for WebSphere MQ.
Find out how to access, download, and extract product images in Accessing CDs and DVDs.
For instructions about downloading and applying service updates, see Applying service.
- Required: Make sure that you have access to the product
documentation that you need for installation.
- The product readme file readme.html contains the latest available information.
- The information center describes planning and preparation on all platforms.
- This information center describes installation procedures for all components on all distributed platforms.
- The Program Directory for WebSphere Message Broker for z/OS describes installation procedures for all components on z/OS®.
Find out how to get these documents in Finding the latest information.
- Required: Decide which components you want to install on
your computers.
The following information provides a minimum level of detail about WebSphere Message Broker components; read Choosing what to install to find out more about the components.
- The WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit. You must install
this component on at least one computer. You can install this component
only on Windows 32-bit, Windows 64-bit, Linux on x86, and Linux on x86-64.
Use the WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit to create, manage, deploy, and delete message flows and associated resources in a development environment.
- The WebSphere Message Broker Explorer. You can install
this component only on Windows 32-bit, Windows 64-bit, Linux on x86, and Linux on x86-64.
Use the WebSphere Message Broker Explorer to administer your brokers in a production environment.
- The Broker component. You
must install this component on at least one computer.
You can create multiple brokers on a single computer. Deploy your message flow resources to one or more brokers to process your application messages.
- The WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit. You must install
this component on at least one computer. You can install this component
only on Windows 32-bit, Windows 64-bit, Linux on x86, and Linux on x86-64.
- Required: Decide which platform you want to install your
chosen components onto. The following table shows the components that you can install on the supported platforms.
Table 1. Summary of component and platform support Component Platform WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit - Linux on x86
- Linux on x86-64
- Windows 32-bit
- Windows 64-bit
WebSphere Message Broker Explorer - Linux on x86
- Linux on x86-64
- Windows 32-bit
- Windows 64-bit
Broker component All supported platforms - Required: Prepare each computer on which you are installing
one or more components.
- Check that your target computers meet the initial hardware,
storage, and software requirements.
The requirements vary depending on what computers you want to install WebSphere Message Broker on, and what components you are installing; read the details in Hardware requirements and Operating system requirements.
The supported hardware and software environments are updated occasionally. To view the latest requirements, see the product requirements website:
www.ibm.com/software/integration/wbimessagebroker/requirements/
- Complete the appropriate tasks for your computer to
set up security and UNIX kernel
configuration, and get ready to access the installation media.
All these tasks are described in Preparing the system.
- Check that your user ID has the required authority to
complete installation:
- AIX® systems: Use the user ID root to perform the preparatory tasks that are described in Security on Linux and UNIX systems. When these steps have been completed, a user without root authorities can complete the installation.
- Linux and other UNIX systems: Your user ID must have root authorities to perform the preparatory tasks that are described in Security on Linux and UNIX systems. When these steps have been completed, a user without root authorities can complete the installation.
- Windows systems: Your user ID must be a member of the group Administrators.
- z/OS systems: Use a user ID that has suitable RACF® privileges to perform the installation.
This information is a summary only; more details are provided in Setting up security.
- Check that your target computers meet the initial hardware,
storage, and software requirements.
- Required: Check the programs that you use to perform component
installation.
The following table lists the programs that are available.
Table 2. Summary of available installation methods Platform Tools Windows only The Windows Launchpad. This program installs prerequisite products if they are not already installed, and identifies prerequisite products that are not at the supported level. See Installing by using the Windows Launchpad.
Linux, UNIX, and Windows systems Installation wizards on each supported platform have unique names, which are listed in Installation wizard names. - To install the Broker component, see Installing the Broker component.
- To install the WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit, see Installing the WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit.
- To install the WebSphere Message Broker Explorer, see Installing WebSphere Message Broker Explorer.
You can install WebSphere Message Broker components and prerequisite products in silent mode on Linux, UNIX, and Windows. For more information, see Installing WebSphere Message Broker components and prerequisite products by using the sample script file.
If you are installing the WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 x86_64 (64-bit) computer, you must install the 32-bit versions of operating system libraries before you run the IBM Installation Manager. For full instructions, see the following technote on the IBM Support Portal: Unable to install Installation Manager on RHEL 6.0 (64-bit).
z/OS only SMP/E To install runtime components, see the Program Directory for WebSphere Message Broker for z/OS.
- Required: Install additional products that are required
by WebSphere Message
Broker.
WebSphere Message Broker requires other software products to work successfully. The order in which you install these products is not important. However, you must install all required products before you can configure and start WebSphere Message Broker components.
The following table gives a summary of these requirements.
Table 3. Summary of prerequisite products Component Prerequisite products WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit - A web browser to view the information center.
WebSphere Message Broker Explorer - Install WebSphere MQ Explorer.
- A web browser to view the information center.
Broker component - WebSphere MQ to communicate with other components.
- A Java™ Runtime Environment (JRE), if using z/OS.
Full details of all these requirements are provided in Additional software requirements:
- For web browsers, see Browsers.
- For details of supported versions of WebSphere MQ, see WebSphere MQ.
- For more information about JREs, see JRE.
- Optional: Configure a minimum broker domain and verify
its operation.
- To create a minimum broker domain, install the WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit and the Broker component on a single computer. Because the WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit is required to complete this task, you must choose a Linux on x86, Linux on x86-64, or Windows computer.
- Use the Default Configuration wizard, which you can start from the WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit, to create the required components after installation.
- Use this broker domain to create message flow resources, verify your installation, investigate how the product works, and explore the product samples.
The verification process is described in Verifying your WebSphere Message Broker installation.
- Optional: Change the broker operation mode.
When you install WebSphere Message Broker and create brokers, they are configured with an operation mode set either to developer (if you have installed the Developer Edition) or advanced (all other editions). You must configure your brokers to conform to the license that you have purchased. Therefore, if you have purchased the Standard Edition, Express® Edition, Remote Adapter Deployment, or the license for Scale mode, you must set the operation mode of all your brokers to the correct value.
See Checking the broker operation mode and function level for more details.
- Optional: Change the broker function level.
If new message flow nodes are delivered in a fix pack, they show in the WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit, but are not enabled in the runtime broker environment. If you deploy a BAR file that includes a message flow that uses a new node, the deployment fails.
If you want to use and test the new nodes, you can enable them on an individual broker basis. See Checking the broker operation mode and function level for more details.