This topic provides the steps necessary to use the installation
wizard and perform a silent installation.
About this task
Use these steps to perform a silent installation, which uses the
installation wizard to install the product. Instead of displaying a user interface,
the silent installation provides interaction between you and the wizard by
reading all of your responses from a file that you must customize.
Procedure
Verify that the user ID that you are using to run
the silent installation has sufficient authority to perform the task.
Verify that the host server jobs are started
on your iSeries server. The host server jobs allow the installation code to
run on iSeries. Enter this command on a CL command line: STRHOSTSVR
SERVER(*ALL)
Customize the option response file.
- Locate the sample options response file. The file name is setup.response in
the operating system platform directory on the product CD-ROM.
- Make a copy to preserve the original response file. For example,
copy the file as myoptionsfile.
- Edit the copy in your flat file editor of choice, on the target
operating system. Read the directions within the response file to choose appropriate
values.
To prepare the file for a silent installation
on AIX, use UNIX line-end characters (0x0D0A) to terminate each line of the
options response file.
- Make a non-commented option to have a silent install.
- Include custom option responses that reflect parameters for
your system.
- Follow the instructions in the response file to choose appropriate
values.
- Save the file.
Verify that your user profile has the *ALLOBJ
and *SECADM special authorities.
Issue a command to use your custom response file:
Install.exe -options myoptionsfile -silent for Windows
platforms and install -options ./myoptionsfile -silent for Linux
and UNIX platforms. The sample options response file is located in the AppClient directory on the product CD-ROM.
- Issue the following command from a command prompt to update
your response file: -OPT silentInstallLicenseAcceptance="true' .
Issuing
this command indicates that you accept all IBM license terms associated with
this product, which is necessary for installing application clients.
Place the WebSphere Application Server Supplements disc
in the disc drive of your iSeries server.
Optional: Restart your machine in
response to the prompt that appears on Windows platforms when the installation
is complete.
Customize the options response file.
- Locate the sample options response file. The file name is setup.response in
the operating system platform directory on the product CD-ROM.
- Use the Copy (CPY) command to create a copy of the setup.response file
from the disk. For example:
CPY OBJ('/QOPT/WEBSPHERE/AppClient/setup.response') TODIR('/MYDIR')
Where:
QOPT
is the disk mount point.
WEBSPHERE is the disk volume label.
/AppClient
is the product directory on the disk. This will be referred to in later steps.
Note: For
DVD media, an additional directory prefix is required before the product directory
that reflects the operating system and architecture of the installation. Using
the previous example, the following installation path applies when you use
CD-ROM media:
CPY OBJ('/QOPT/WEBSPHERE/AppClient/setup.response') TODIR('/MYDIR')
However,
the following installation path applies when you use DVD media:
CPY OBJ('/QOPT/WEBSPHERE/os400_ppc64/AppClient/setup.response') TODIR('/MYDIR')
- Edit the copy of the file using EDTF from the i5/OS command
line or using Wordpad from a mapped drive. Accept the license
agreement by making the following change in the response file: -OPT
silentInstallLicenseAcceptance="true' This is the only required change
in the response file. Read the information in the response file to determine
if you want to change any other options.
- Save the file.
Invoke the installation program for WebSphere
Application Client for i5/OS. To do this, run the INSTALL command
from Qshell :
- From the i5/OS command line, start a Qshell session: STRQSH
- Change directory to the AppClient subdirectory of CD-ROM or
DVD-ROM drive: cd /QOPT/WEBSPHERE/AppClient OR cd
/QOPT/WebSphere/os400_ppc64/AppClient
- Issue the INSTALL command to start the installation
program: install –options /MYDIR/setup.response
Important: Do
not exit the Qshell session (PF3) until the installation has completed. Doing
so might cause the installation to stop prematurely.
Results
You installed application clients silently by using the response file.
Attention: Troubleshooting an invalid response file name that was
submitted during the silent installation. If you get a response file error,
the response file name may have been typed incorrectly. Verify that this
is the problem by removing the -silent command and leaving -options <responsefile>.
You may get a pop-up window or command line error stating that the wizard
cannot continue because of the following error: The response file was not
found (1001) (403). The response file that you are passing cannot be found
on the system. Make sure that the path is correct, with no spelling mistakes,
and try the installation again.