Installation Factory overview

The IBM Installation Factory for WebSphere Application Server is an Eclipse-based tool which creates installation packages for installing WebSphere Application Server in a reliable and repeatable way, tailored to your specific needs.

The Installation Factory can produce a customized installation package (CIP) which is used to install a WebSphere Application Server product in addition to maintenance, profile customization, and user-defined scripting.

See the Getting Started with the Installation Factory page to begin creating an installation package.

Customized installation packages

The Installation Factory combines the installation image for a version or release of a WebSphere software product with applicable maintenance packages, a configuration archive, one or more enterprise archive files, customization scripts, and other user files to create a customized installation package. You can significantly reduce the time and complexity of a standard installation process by creating and installing a CIP.

For example, the Installation Factory can combine Version 6 of a WebSphere Application Server product with Refresh Pack 2 to create a customized installation package that installs Version 6.0.2.

Installing and configuring a WebSphere application server product is usually a multiple step process:
  1. Install the shipped version of the product.
  2. Install the current refresh pack.
  3. Install a Java 2 Software Development Kit (SDK) fix pack.
  4. Install one or more interim fixes as needed.
  5. Create and configure application servers and other artifacts.
  6. Deploy applications.

The Installation Factory simplifies the process by creating a single installation image, the customized installation package.

Overview of creating a CIP

After creating the CIP, installing and configuring a WebSphere software product is a one-step process: install the CIP.



Related tasks
Getting started with the Installation Factory
Developing and installing customized installation packages
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