WebSphere Portal Installation and host short name length
To avoid errors during the WebSphere Portal PTF installation, you must ensure that, before you install DB2 Universal Database™, you limit the host short name to eight characters.
Installing the Dashboard Client with a long host name
Installing the Dashboard Client, using Launchpad, on the Windows® platform requires that the maximum length of a short host name be 9 characters for a successful Portal PTF 5102 installation.
AIX and CD-ROM device activity
If you are installing the WebSphere Business Monitor prerequisites from CDs on an AIX system, you should ensure that the CD-ROM device has ceased all activity before you load the prerequisite CDs.
After installation, Launchpad check boxes should be selected and unavailable
When the WebSphere Business Monitor installer finishes installing a selected component, and you return to the Launchpad main window, the check boxes next to the names of the components or databases should be selected and unavailable.
Installation fails when Remote Desktop is used
You can use Terminal Services Remote Desktop to run the WebSphere Business Monitor Launchpad on a Windows operating system to install WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Process Server, or WebSphere Portal. If the Launchpad shows, upon completion of the installation, that the installation failed and WebSphere Business Monitor is not installed, check that Windows has placed the vpd.properties file in the correct location.
Launchpad Installer suspends activity
The WebSphere Business Monitor Launchpad Installer may suspend, or appears to lock up, the operating system during the installation of either the Monitor Server or the Dashboard Client components. Your installation involves remote databases.
Profile, cell, node, and server fields are not prefilled
In the WebSphere Business Monitor installer, the fields on the WebSphere Application Server Configuration panel and the WebSphere Portal Configuration panel should be prefilled with profile, cell, node, and server information.