The centralized installation manager (CIM) provides a download function in the administrative console to allow the cell administrator to navigate to IBM support and download the latest version of the IBM Update Installer for WebSphere Software, fix packs and interim fixes. To use this feature, the WebSphere Application Server deployment manager node must have Internet access to the external IBM FTP server.
You must first create the CIM repository and add one or more product packages to the repository on the host workstation. Complete this task during the installation process of WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment Version 7.0. For more information, read the "Adding the current installation package during installation" topic.
Alternatively, you can use the IBM® WebSphere® Installation Factory to add one or more product packages to the repository. The Installation Factory is included in one of the WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment discs, which you must install separately. For more details about the Installation Factory, read the "Adding installation packages with the Installation Factory" topic.
If you do not allow Internet access from your deployment manager workstation, then you can set up an FTP gateway on a workstation that has internet access, point the CIM download URL to that gateway, and do the download indirectly through the gateway. The following section describes how you can set up a simple FTP gateway using a program called DeleGate. You can use other FTP gateway products with similar capability instead.
DeleGate is a multipurpose application level gateway, or a proxy server which runs on multiple platforms (UNIX, Windows and OS/2® ). See the DeleGate Home Page for more information.
Alternatively, you can manually add the packages to the repository. Read the "Manually adding package files to the repository" topic for more information.
Perform the following steps to set up DeleGate as an FTP gateway for CIM running on a deployment manager node that does not have direct access to the Internet.
With the previous setup, you can then replace ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/websphere with ftp://ftpgate01.mydomain.com anywhere you see Download Options in any of the CIM download panels and you will be able to access the IBM Support FTP Server via the FTP gateway.
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/websphere/appserv/support/fixpacks/was70/cumulative/
ftp://ftpgate01.mydomain.com/appserv/support/fixpacks/was70/cumulative/
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