A customized installation package (CIP) is a customized WebSphere
Application Server installation image that can include one or more maintenance
packages, a configuration archive from a stand-alone application server profile,
one or more enterprise archive files, and scripts and other files that help
customize the resulting installation. The IBM Installation Factory for WebSphere
Application Server creates CIPs.
Before you begin
Read through this topic and its related topics to prepare
for creating and installing customized installation packages (CIPs). Become
familiar with CIP installation options before you start to use the installation
tools. Review the hardware and software requirements on the Supported hardware and software Web site to get started.
i5/OS users must install the Installation
Factory on a distributed platform. The Installation Factory does not run on
an i5/OS platform.
If you encounter a problem such as needing more disk
space or more temporary space, or missing prerequisite packages on your system,
cancel the installation, make the required changes, and restart the installation.
Restriction: Remote
installation from a Windows workstation using a CIP is only supported when
performing a scratch installation of a CIP with no interim fixes. In all other
cases, you will need to apply the CIP locally on the iSeries machine.
About this task
This topic introduces the IBM Installation Factory for WebSphere
Application Server, which you can use to create a CIP. Get started by creating
a build definition for the CIP using the Installation Factory console using
the ifgui command. After defining the build parameters
in the wizard, create and install the resulting CIP.
The following procedure
describes how to get started creating and installing a customized installation
package for your WebSphere Application Server product.
Procedure
- Use the Installation Factory to create a customized installation
package.
See
Creating a build definition and CIP on the processing engine machine for
information about creating and generating a CIP locally.
See Creating a CIP build definition for another machine for
information about creating a CIP definition locally and generating the CIP
on another machine.
- Prepare your operating platform for installation.
See Preparing the operating system for product installation.
See Preparing the operating system for installation.
- Install the Network Deployment product
using the CIP.
The CIP Installation wizard performs the following
actions:
- Automatically checks prerequisites.
- Looks for a previous WebSphere Application Server Version
6.x installation to determine installation options to display.
Options
include adding features and maintenance to the product binaries, and installing
a new set of product binaries at the updated maintenance level that is included
in the CIP.
- Prompts
you to create a cell profile, a deployment manager profile, an application
server profile, or a custom profile.
The cell profile is new
for Version 6.1. A cell profile contains a deployment manager profile and
a federated application server profile on the same machine or partition.
Choose one of the following installation scenarios to continue
the installation:
- Perform a custom installation with the CIP Installation wizard.
See Installing a CIP for Network Deployment.
The custom installation
lets you select features to install.
- Install maintenance packages and additional features with the CIP Installation
wizard to increment an existing installation.
See Installing CIP features on an existing Network Deployment product.
The CIP Installation
wizard can install maintenance to an existing product without installing features.
- Perform a silent installation with the CIP Installation wizard .
See Installing a CIP silently.
A silent installation requires
you to edit the response file that contains all of your installation choices.
After creating a valid response file, you issue the install command
with the silent parameter from a command window.
The installer program does not support the ISMP-console installation
method at this time.
Results
You can use a CIP to install IBM
WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment by following this procedure.