Special procedures for IBM i operating systems when running the centralized installation manager (CIM)

Special procedures are required if you choose to run centralized installation manager (CIM) on IBM® i operating systems. Since IBM WebSphere® Installation Factory is not supported on IBM i operating system, you must create the repository on a Windows operating system and then transfer the repository to the IBM i operating system.

About this task

There are two ways to add installation packages into a CIM repository on IBM i. For local installations, the installation image can be added as an optional procedure during the silent installation of WebSphere Application Server. For remote installations, the user can use the Installation Factory to create a repository on a Windows system, and then transfer the packages to the repository that resides on the IBM i system.

Using the silent installer locally on IBM i operating systems

Edit the response file, and set options cimSelected, cimRepositoryLocation, and populateRepository to the appropriate values. See the comments in the response file for more details. The repository is created and populated as part of the installation process. For more information, read the silent installation instructions in the Adding the current installation package to the centralized installation manager (CIM) repository during installation topic.

Use the following procedure to add the installation packages into the CIM repository on the IBM i system using the Windows operating system.

Procedure

  1. Install WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment Version 7.0 onto the IBM i operating system.
  2. Install the Installation Factory onto the Windows operating system.
  3. Insert the WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment Version 7.0 installation disk into the drive of the Windows system, or create a customized installation package (CIP) with the Installation Factory on the Windows system.
  4. Create a repository locally on the Windows operating system with the Installation Factory.
  5. Change the directory to the repository path.

    Run the command zip -r cimrepos.zip * to create a compressed file including all the directories in the repository.

    You can also selectively include only the directories you want. If you are including any CIP images, you need to also include the corresponding CIP descriptors that are in the descriptors directory. The CIP descriptor is an XML file whose name contains the CIP directory name. For example, if the CIP directory name is com.ibm.torolab.ND70_AIX_PPC32_1.0.0.0, then the descriptor name is something like InstallPackageND70X_com.ibm.torolab.ND70_AIX_PPC32_1.0.0.0.xml.

  6. Log onto the IBM i system. Open the property file, app_server_root/properties/cimgr.props, and look at the value of CENTRALIZED_INSTALL_REPOSITORY_ROOT. This is the location of the repository on the IBM i system. You can change it to point to another location.
  7. Create the repository directory if it is not already created.
  8. Transfer cimrepos.zip from the Windows system to the repository directory on the IBM i system. Extract the contents of the cimrepos.zip file onto the repository directory and optionally delete the original zip file.

Results

You have added the installation packages into the CIM repository on the IBM i system.

Instead of creating the repository on the disk drive of the Windows system and transferring the file, alternatively, you can map the IBM i file system of the repository onto the Windows system and use it for populating the installation packages. Using this alternative method eliminates transferring the files to the IBM i system.

What to do next

Use the centralized installation manager to install the components to the nodes and begin managing your environments. In the administrative console, click System administration > Centralized Installation Manager.




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