This topic describes one of the installation options for a customized
installation package (CIP) that includes the IBM WebSphere Application Server,
Version 6 product and one or more maintenance packages. This topic describes
how to use the Installation wizard to upgrade the Express product to the base
product.
Before you begin
This topic describes
one of the available installation procedures.
Other installation
paths include:
If
this topic does not describe the procedure that you meant to select,
click the link to the description of the appropriate installation
procedure before you issue the install command.
Knowing
what component to install and in what order to install the component is an
important consideration. At some time before starting this installation, see Planning to install WebSphere Application Server.
- Log on as root on an operating system such as AIX or Linux,
or as a member of the administrator group on a Windows system.
- Log on to the operating system.
Log on as root on an operating system such
as AIX® or Linux®, or as a member of the administrator
group on a Windows® system.
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When installing on a Windows system, a Windows service is automatically created
to autostart the application server if your installer user account
has the following advanced user rights:
- Act as part of the operating system
- Log on as a service
For example, on some Windows systems,
click
Administrative Tools > Local Security Policy > User
Rights Assignments to set the advanced options. See your Windows documentation for more
information.
The installation wizard grants your Windows user ID the advanced user rights,
if the user ID belongs to the administrator group. The silent installation
does not grant these rights. If you create a new user ID on a Windows platform to perform
a silent installation, you must restart the system to activate the
proper authorizations for the user ID before you can perform a successful
silent installation.
If you
plan to run the application server as a Windows service, do not install from a user
ID that contains spaces. A user ID with spaces cannot be validated.
Such a user ID is not allowed to continue the installation. To work
around this problem, install with a user ID that does not contain
spaces.
- Insert the CD-ROM or DVD with the customized
installation package (CIP). Or access the directory where the CIP
is located. If necessary, mount the disc drive as described in Mounting disc drives on operating systems such as AIX or Linux.
- Start the installation directly with the install command.
- Change to the WAS directory.
- Run the install command.
- ./install
install
After launching the CIP installation wizard from the command
line, the wizard initializes and then displays the Welcome panel.
Click About this custom installation package to
display detailed information about the current custom installation
package, such as the edition and version.
- Click Next to continue.
The license agreement displays.
- Read the license agreement and accept its terms.
Click the radio button beside the message I
accept the terms in the license agreement to agree to
the license agreement and click Next to continue.
After you accept the licensing terms, the installation
wizard checks for a supported operating system and prerequisite patches.
If you encounter a problem such as not having the right prerequisite
updates on your system, cancel the installation, make the required
changes, and restart the installation.
Although
the installation wizard automatically checks for prerequisite operating
system patches with the prereqChecker application, review the prerequisites
on the WebSphere® Application
Server detailed system requirements web site if you have not
already done so.
Although the installation process
verifies that the minimum required version of the operating system
is available, the installation process might not correctly flag a
maintenance upgrade of that operating system version as being a supported
configuration. If you have upgraded your supported operating system
version to a higher maintenance level and you receive the following
error message, then you can ignore the message and click
Next.
Avoid trouble: Although maintenance upgrades of the same
major release are supported, subsequent
major releases of the
operating system might not be supported.
gotcha
Failed : Your operating system failed the
prerequisites check.
A supported operating system was not detected. Support for your
operating system might have been added after the release of the
product.
The Web site lists all supported
operating systems and the operating system fixes and patches that
you must install to have a compliant operating system.
Refer to the documentation for non-IBM prerequisite and
corequisite products to learn how to migrate to their supported versions.
- After confirming that your operating system is supported and that
you have installed all necessary patches, click Next to
continue.
The installation wizard checks
for a previous installation at the same major product level.
If the wizard detects a previous installation, it
displays the Existing installation panel, where you can:
- Add maintenance to the existing installation
- Add features to the existing installation
- Add files, directories, enterprise application archive (EAR) files,
and configuration archive (CAR) files to the existing installation
- Use scripts to configure the existing system
- Perform a new installation to another directory
- Perform an upgrade of a trial installation to the full
product
- Perform an upgrade of an Express® installation to the
full product
This task describes
the scenario where a previous installation of the Express product exists and
you are installing the WebSphere Application Server CIP to upgrade the Express
product. The CIP includes the Express product and one or more maintenance
packages.
After upgrading, install the CIP again to install the maintenance
to the upgraded product.
Select the Upgrade option and click Next.
The installer program installs the new license files and updates the system
properties to indicate that the WebSphere Application Server product is installed.
Results
The wizard completes the upgrade. The wizard exits at the end of
the upgrade without presenting another panel.
This procedure results
in upgrading an Express installation to the base WebSphere Application Server
product.
What to do next
You can install the CIP again to add features or install maintenance.
Or you can use the Profile Creation wizard to
create more stand-alone application servers.
See Creating profiles using the graphical user interface for more information.
If
you have already created the topology that you require, try deploying an application
in your environment.
Deploy
an application to get started!
See Fast paths for WebSphere Application Server to get started deploying applications.