Use Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator file repositories to define
sets of servers that centrally store software.
在您开始之前
Before configuring a Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator file repository,
you must know the repository location to configure. You can create a new repository
location on your server, or use an existing folder. If you plan to use a system
other than the Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator server as your file repository,
verify that the system is configured for management by Tivoli Intelligent
Orchestrator.
关于本任务
Use a file repository to enhance silent installation. For more information
about silent installation, see
Silent installation.
If you are using a file repository, you do not have to verify that the software
images exist on all of the systems that you are provisioning. Instead, you
can verify that the software images exist in the file repository only. When
the installation workflow runs, the workflow deploys the software images onto
the target systems automatically from the file repository.
过程
- Create the Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator file repository.
- In the Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator Web interface, click Inventory
> Infrastructure > File repositories.
- Click Edit > Add File Repository.
- Set the properties of the file repository, including the root
path of the file repository. The root path of the file repository
is the location for the software images. When the workflow runs, it looks
for the required software images in the root path on file repository server,
and then copies the images to the system that you are provisioning. If the
required software images do not exist in this path on the file repository,
the workflow creates an error message. For example, the path
might be /opt/IBM/tivoli/SWrepository/XDFiles.
- Click Save. The file repository is created.
- Create the necessary credentials for your servers. Set the credentials
on the file repository and target system to trust each other so that the copy
utility works. To add or modify credentials, you must use service
access points. To add a new service access point to the server, perform the
following steps:
- Click Data center assets and resources > Inventory > Servers and
click the server that you want to work with. Click the Credentials tab.
- Click Edit > Add Access Point. Complete the
fields as follows:
- In the Type list, click the type of protocol to use for connecting
to that service.
- Select Host if you want this server to be the host that provides
the service through service access points. Optionally, you can enter the service
access point domain and context. You can use the context field to define a
unique identifier for this service access point.
- Type the port number to use for this service access point. Based on the
selected type of protocol, the default port for the SAP is displayed. Set
that port number to 0 for a client SAP (The host option is not selected).
- Select the Authentication check box if the access to that service
requires authentication. If authentication is required, specific credentials
must be defined, corresponding to the selected type of protocol.
- Click Perform using dcm.interaction to run the Device. Create
Service Access Point logical operation.
- Click Save.
- Prepare the WebSphere Extended Deployment base installation, Update
Installer, and interim fix images.
- Create a zip file from the WebSphere Extended Deployment
base CD. Verify that the install executable file is in the top
level directory inside of the zip file. Put the zip file
in the root directory of the file repository. You specified this directory
when you created the repository in Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator.
- Download the Update Installer zip or tar file,
and copy it to the root directory of the file repository. The
Update Installer is a tool that you use to install service packs on top of
an existing WebSphere Extended Deployment installation. Download the Update
Installer at the following Web address: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=180&uid=swg24008401.
- Copy the interim fix .pak file to the root directory
of the file repository.
- Add the properties to complete your configuration. See Configuration
properties for Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator for more information.
结果
Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator can automatically provision WebSphere
Extended Deployment nodes, using the file repository to install WebSphere
Extended Deployment instead of installing the installation image to each
system.
下一步做什么
Before you use the workflow to install WebSphere Extended Deployment,
verify that the Update Installer silent install response file is in the same
location as the WebSphere Extended Deployment silent installation response
file on the Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator server. When the installation
workflow runs, it copies over the image, unpacks the image, copies the response
file, invokes the installer, and then checks the result.