Use these instructions for obtaining and installing updates
to installations of Load Balancer for IPv4 and IPv6 on AIX, HP-UX,
Linux, or Solaris operating systems.
Before you begin
Before installing the refresh or fix pack, stop and uninstall
any existing versions of Load Balancer that are going to be updated.
Refer to
Uninstalling Load Balancer for more information.
When you uninstall the license package, the license file will not
be removed from your system. Do not manually remove this file, because
the license file is required for the update to start.
Procedure
- Ensure that you have the license package installed from
the CD. You don't have to have the entire product installed;
you only need to have the license installed. The license package only
comes on the CD, so you need the CD to install the license package.
- Go to a command prompt with root authority.
- Obtain the Load Balancer refresh or fix pack and place
it in a temporary directory.
- Uncompress and untar the build package. This
results in a number of separate file sets.
- Install the software using the system-specific commands
in the following table. Use the following table for the
commands to use for your operating system:
Operating system |
Update commands |
AIX |
- If a .toc file is not already present, generate a .toc file by
issuing the command:
inutoc
- Install the packages for Load Balancer. For example, to install
the base package from the current directory, issue the following command:
installp -acXd . package_name
|
HP-UX |
swinstall -s /source package_name
where source is
the directory for the location of the package, and package_name is
the name of the package. For example, to install the base package
from the current directory, issue the following command: swinstall -s /lb package_name
|
Linux |
rpm -iv package_name
where package_name is
the name of the package.For example, the following command installs
all of the packages for Load Balancer when the packages reside in
the current directory: rpm -iv ibmulb*.rpm
Note: You can use the nodeps option to successfully install
all of the packages in any order.
|
Solaris |
pkgadd -d source package_name
where source is
the directory for the location of the package, and package_name is
the name of the package. For example, to install the administration
package from the current directory, issue the following command: pkgadd -d . ibmulbadm
|
- Restore any configuration files and start scripts that
you saved or modified during a previous uninstall.
What to do next
After you install an update for Edge Components, the previous
configuration for Edge Components is maintained. When new functions
or enhancements are delivered with a refresh or fix pack, it might
be necessary to add directives to the configuration files to enable
the features.
Avoid trouble: When you update the Load Balancer
component, you must manually save and restore configuration files
to maintain the previous configuration for Load Balancer. See
Installing Load Balancer for more information.
gotcha
Rejecting
an update- On HP-UX, Linux, or Solaris operating systems, to remove a refresh
or fix pack and return to a prepatched state, uninstall the product
and reinstall the previous version.
- The mechanism that the AIX operating system provides for rejecting
a patch requires that the patch be produced in refresh or fix pack
format. The Edge Components refresh or fix pack is provided with product
format packaging only, not refresh or fix pack format packaging. Therefore,
you cannot use the AIX SMIT mechanisms for installing and removing
patches. To reject a patch on an AIX system, you must uninstall the
file sets and reinstall the previous version.