Use the centralized installation manager repository
tool to add one or more WebSphere® Extended
Deployment products
to the repository. From the administrative console, you can then use
the centralized installation manager to install your
added components from the repository to the nodes.
Before you begin
- To populate the repository for the first time, ensure that the
destination directory is empty. Additionally, you can add a product
to the repository only if the repository does not already contain
that specific product.
- Use the centralized installation manager repository
tool to add the WebSphere Virtual
Enterprise installation
image to the repository if you chose not to add it when prompted by
the installation wizard. See Installing the product
for
more information.
- The repository tool cannot
be used to add the required binary files for WebSphere Application
Server Community Edition to the repository. To use the centralized installation manager to install WebSphere Application
Server Community Edition on remote servers, you must follow the steps
that are outlined in Downloading and installing WebSphere Application
Server
Community Edition
.
Procedure
- Start the repository tool from the following location:
install_root/bin/xd_cimgrrepository.sh
install_root/bin/xd_cimgrrepository.bat
- Select one or more products to include in the repository,
and click Next.
- Click Browse to provide the location
of the product installation image.
If you selected to
add multiple products in step 2, the panel is displayed again to prompt
you for the installation image location for each product.
If you plan to set up a high availability deployment manager
environment, you must specify the location of the repository from
the current installation location. For example, if you install the
product in the C:\ProgramFiles\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer
directory, specify the repository location C:\ProgramFiles\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\repository_folder.
- Optional: You can also install a customized
installation package (CIP) to the centralized installation manager
repository. Manually copy the installation descriptors
from the CIP to the install_root/properties/xdcimgr
directory on the deployment manager workstation:
- For a Virtual Enterprise CIP:
wxdop_package/custom/InstallPackageXD61*.xml
- For a Compute Grid CIP:
wxdcg_package/custom/InstallPackageXD61*.xml
- For an eXtreme Scale Version
6.1.0.x only CIP:
wxddg_package/custom/InstallPackageXD61*.xml
Results
The centralized installation manager repository
now contains one or more WebSphere Extended
Deployment products.
For information on how to install the repository from the command
line, see Installing the product silently
.
What to do next
Use the centralized installation manager to
install the products to the nodes and begin managing your environments.
In the administrative console, click .