You can install WebSphere® Application
Server Liberty on IBM® i operating
systems using Installation Manager response files.
Before you begin
Prepare for the installation before using this procedure.
See Preparing the operating system for installation on IBM i for more information.
Before
you install WebSphere Application
Server, ensure that your user profile has *ALLOBJ and *SECADM special
authorities.
Install Installation Manager on the system
onto which you want to install the product.
- If you want to use the Installation Manager that comes with this
product, perform the following actions:
- Obtain the necessary files.
There are three basic options for
obtaining and installing Installation Manager and the product.
Note: If you do not have a Passport Advantage ID and password,
you must install the product from the product repositories on the
media or local repositories.
- Install Installation Manager.
- Sign on to the IBM i system
with a user profile that has *ALLOBJ and *SECADM special authorities.
- On a CL command line, run the STRQSH command
to start the Qshell command shell.
- Make sure that the umask is set to 022.
To verify the umask
setting, issue the following command:
umask
To
set the umask setting to 022, issue the following command:
umask 022
- Change to the temporary directory where you unpacked the Installation
Manager files.
- Run the following command in the temporary folder:
installc -acceptLicense -log log_file_path_and_name
- If you already have a version of Installation Manager installed
on your system and you want to use it to install and maintain the
product, obtain the necessary product files.
There are three basic
options for installing the product.
- Access the physical media, and use local installation
You
can access the product repositories on the media. Use Installation
Manager to install the product from the product repositories on the
media.
- Download the files from the Passport Advantage site, and use
local installation
Licensed customers with a Passport Advantage ID and password
can download the necessary product repositories from the Passport Advantage site.
- Download the product repositories from the Passport Advantage site.
- Use Installation Manager to install the product from the downloaded
repositories.
- Access the live repositories, and use web-based installation
If
you have a Passport
Advantage ID and password, you can use Installation Manager to
install the product from the web-based repositories. Use Installation
Manager to install the product from the web-based repository located
at
http://www.ibm.com/software/repositorymanager/com.ibm.websphere.liberty.ND.v85
Note: This
location does not contain a web page that you can access using a web
browser. This is a remote web-based repository location that you must
specify in the response file so that the installation can access the
files in this repository.
Whenever possible, you should
use the remote web-based repositories so that you are accessing the
most up-to-date installation files.
Note: If you do not have a Passport Advantage ID and password,
you must install the product from the product repositories on the
media or local repositories.
Procedure
- Optional: If the repository requires a username
and password, create a credential-storage file to access this repository.
Tip: When creating a credential-storage file, append /repository.config at
the end of the repository URL location if the imutilsc command
is unable to find the URL that is specified.
Note: When you
use Installation Manager Version 1.6.2 and later, you should use the
-secureStorageFile and
-masterPasswordFile options
to store credentials in a credential-storage file. In versions of
Installation Manager earlier than Version 1.6.2, the
-keyring and
-password options
were used to access credentials in a keyring file. These options were
deprecated in Version 1.6.2. There is no migration path from keyring
files to storage files because of the differences in the file structures.
For more information on using the
-secureStorageFile and
-masterPasswordFile options
to store credentials in a credential-storage file, see the
Installation Manager Version 1.6 Information Center.
For more information on using the
-keyring and
-password options
to store credentials in a keyring file, see the
Installation Manager Version 1.5 Information Center.
- Sign on to the IBM i
system with a user profile that has *ALLOBJ and *SECADM special authorities.
- On a CL command line, run the STRQSH command
to start the Qshell command shell.
- Make sure that the umask is set to 022.
To
verify the umask setting, issue the following command:
umask
To set the umask setting
to 022, issue the following command:
umask 022
- Use a response file to install the product.
Change
to the
eclipse/tools subdirectory in the directory
where you installed Installation Manager, and install the product.
For example:
./imcl -acceptLicense
input $HOME/WASFiles/temp/install_response_file.xml
-log $HOME/WASFiles/temp/install_log.xml
-secureStorageFile $HOME/WASFiles/temp/credential.store -masterPasswordFile $HOME/WASFiles/master_password_file.txt
Notes: - The relevant terms and conditions, notices, and other information
are provided in the license-agreement files in the lafiles or product_name/lafiles subdirectory
of the installation image or repository for this offering.
- /QIBM/ProdData/InstallationManager is the
default installation location for Installation Manager files on IBM i systems.
- The program might write important post-installation instructions
to standard output.
Read the IBM Installation
Manager Information Center for more information.
Example
The following is an example of a response file for installing
the product with no optional features into the
/QIBM/ProdData/WebSphere/AppServer/V85/ND directory using
a web-based repository located at
http://www.ibm.com/software/repositorymanager/com.ibm.websphere.liberty.ND.v85.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<agent-input>
<server>
<repository location='http://www.ibm.com/software/repositorymanager/com.ibm.websphere.liberty.ND.v85'/>
</server>
<profile id='WebSphere Liberty V8.5' installLocation='/QIBM/ProdData/WebSphere/AppServer/V85/ND'>
<data key='was.install.os400.profile.location' value='/QIBM/UserData/WebSphere/AppServer/V85/ND'/>
<data key='user.import.profile' value='false'/>
</profile>
<install modify='false'>
<offering profile='WebSphere Liberty V8.5'
features='' id='com.ibm.websphere.liberty.ND.v85'/>
</install>
<preference name='com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.eclipseCache'
value='/QIBM/UserData/InstallationManager/IMShared'/>
<preference name='com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.connectTimeout' value='30'/>
<preference name='com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.readTimeout' value='30'/>
<preference name='com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.downloadAutoRetryCount' value='0'/>
<preference name='offering.service.repositories.areUsed' value='true'/>
<preference name='com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.ssl.nonsecureMode' value='false'/>
<preference name='com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.http.disablePreemptiveAuthentication' value='false'/>
<preference name='http.ntlm.auth.kind' value='NTLM'/>
<preference name='http.ntlm.auth.enableIntegrated.win32' value='true'/>
<preference name='com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.preserveDownloadedArtifacts' value='true'/>
<preference name='com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.keepFetchedFiles' value='false'/>
<preference name='PassportAdvantageIsEnabled' value='false'/>
<preference name='com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.searchForUpdates' value='false'/>
</agent-input>
Tips: - Make sure that the repository location points to the web-based
or local product repository. For example:
<repository location='https://downloads.mycorp.com:8080/WAS_85_repository'/>
- The following line from the example specifies the default value
of the profile location for IBM i:
<data key='was.install.os400.profile.location' value='/QIBM/UserData/WebSphere/AppServer/V85/ND'/>
To override
this default location, specify a different location
- The following line from the example specifies the default value
of the shared resources directory for IBM i:
<preference name='com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.eclipseCache' value='/QIBM/UserData/InstallationManager/IMShared'/>
To
override this default location, specify a different locationNote: There
is only one shared resources directory for Installation Manager. If
there has been an installation on the system in the past, it will
use that shared resources directory and not the one specified in the
response file.
- To disable remote searches for updates in the response file, set
the following preferences to false:
For example:
<preference value='false' name='offering.service.repositories.areUsed'/>
<preference value='false' name='com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.searchForUpdates'/>
You can find more details on silent preference keys in
the IBM Installation
Manager Information Center.
- To install more than one instance of an offering, you must make
the profile ID of each additional instance unique. For example:
<offering profile='WebSphere Liberty V8.5 - Another User's WAS Liberty ND'
features='' id='com.ibm.websphere.liberty.ND.v85'/>
This must be changed in both places that specify the profile ID in
the response file.
Here are some examples of changes that you could make
to manipulate this response file to perform alternative actions.
- To alter the location of the installation, simply change the installation
location. For example:
Replace
<profile id='WebSphere Liberty V8.5' installLocation='/QIBM/ProdData/WebSphere/AppServer/V85/ND'>
with
<profile id='WebSphere Liberty V8.5' installLocation='/home/user/IBM/Websphere/AppServer/V85/Server'>
- To install from a local repository instead of the live remote
repository, replace the repository location. For example:
Replace
<repository location='http://www.ibm.com/software/repositorymanager/com.ibm.websphere.liberty.ND.v85'/>
with
<repository location='/home/user/repositories/WAS85/local-repositories'/>
- To add the optional features, add each desired feature in the
offering as an entry in a comma-separated list.
In the following
list, the offering IDs to be used in the response files are enclosed
in parentheses:
- Embeddable EJB container and JPA client (embeddablecontainer)
This
option installs the embeddable EJB container and JPA client.
The
embeddable EJB container is a Java™ Archive
(JAR) file that you can use to run enterprise beans in a standalone Java Platform, Standard Edition
(SE) environment. You can run enterprise beans using this embeddable
container outside the application server. The embeddable EJB container
is a part of the EJB 3.1 specification and is primarily used for unit
testing enterprise beans business logic.
The JPA client can
be used with the embeddable EJB container to provide Java Persistence API capability in a Java SE environment.
- Extended Programming Models (extprogmodels)
The
Extended Programming Models feature provides a rich set of programming
models such as Web Services, JMS (including Message-Driven Beans),
and Mongo 2.0.
Notes: - If no features are specified, the default features (embeddablecontainer and extprogmodels)
are installed. To install only
the feature that you want, specify that feature explicitly.
For example, to install the Embeddable EJB container: Replace
<offering profile='WebSphere Liberty V8.5'
features='' id='com.ibm.websphere.liberty.ND.v85'/>
with
<offering profile='WebSphere Liberty V8.5'
features='embeddablecontainer' id='com.ibm.websphere.liberty.ND.v85'/>