Fix Pack 8550

Installing Liberty on IBM i operating systems using response files

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:
    1. Obtain the necessary files.
      There are three basic options for obtaining and installing Installation Manager and the product.
      • Access the physical media, and use local installation
        You can access the product repositories on the media.
        1. Install Installation Manager on your system.

          You can install Installation Manager using the media, using a file obtained from the Passport Advantage® site, or using a file containing the most current version of Installation Manager from the IBM Installation Manager download website.

        2. 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.
        1. Download the files from the Passport Advantage site.
        2. Install Installation Manager on your system.

          You can install Installation Manager using the media, using a file obtained from the Passport Advantage site, or using a file containing the most current version of Installation Manager from the IBM Installation Manager download website.

        3. 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 install the product from the web-based repositories.
        1. Install Installation Manager on your system.

          You can install Installation Manager using the media, using a file obtained from the Passport Advantage site, or using a file containing the most current version of Installation Manager from the IBM Installation Manager download website.

        2. 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.
    2. Install Installation Manager.
      1. Sign on to the IBM i system with a user profile that has *ALLOBJ and *SECADM special authorities.
      2. On a CL command line, run the STRQSH command to start the Qshell command shell.
      3. 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
      4. Change to the temporary directory where you unpacked the Installation Manager files.
      5. Run the following command in the temporary folder:
        installc -acceptLicense -log log_file_path_and_name
        Notes:
  • 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.
      1. Download the product repositories from the Passport Advantage site.
      2. 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

  1. 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.
  2. Sign on to the IBM i system with a user profile that has *ALLOBJ and *SECADM special authorities.
  3. On a CL command line, run the STRQSH command to start the Qshell command shell.
  4. 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
  5. 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 location
    Note: 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:
    • offering.service.repositories.areUsed

      Used for searching remote repositories for updates to installed offerings

    • com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.searchForUpdates

      Used for searching for updates to Installation Manager

    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'/>

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