You can use Installation Manager to upgrade WebSphere® Application Server Version 8.5
from the trial to the full product.
Before you begin
- Make sure that your Installation Manager preferences are pointing
to web-based or local repositories that contain the appropriate upgrades
for the product.
- If an interim fix is already installed on the offering that you
are trying to upgrade but that specific interim fix is not applicable
to the offering to which you want to upgrade, the upgrade will be
blocked by Installation Manager. An error message will be generated
that indicates that the interim fix is not applicable to the offering.
Remove the interim fix before upgrading.
Procedure
- Stop all servers and applications on the WebSphere Application
Server installation that is being upgraded.
- Start Installation Manager.
- Click Install.
Note: If
you are prompted to authenticate, use the IBM® ID and password that you registered with
on the program website.
Installation Manager searches its
defined repositories for available packages.
- Select IBM WebSphere Application Server
Network Deployment and the appropriate version, and click Next.
- Accept the terms in the license agreements, and click Next.
- Complete the following actions.
- Select Use the existing package group.
- Select the package group of the product that you want
to upgrade.
Important: If you select an existing
group that cannot be upgraded to the product that you are currently
installing, an error will occur.
- Click Next.
Important: Installation Manager defaults to installing
a new offering. To upgrade your existing installation, you must select
the existing package group.
- If you have WebSphere Application
Server Full Profile installed, select any subfeatures that you want
to include in the upgraded installation and click Next.
Restrictions: - You cannot upgrade from a trial edition
and add or remove WebSphere Application
Server Full Profile or WebSphere Application
Server Liberty Profile.
- You cannot use the Installation Manager modify, update, or rollback
functions to modify this installation later and add or remove WebSphere Application Server
Full Profile or WebSphere Application
Server Liberty Profile. You can use these functions to add or remove
the subfeatures of WebSphere Application
Server Full Profile later.
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You
cannot upgrade from a trial edition
and change your IBM Software
Development Kit selection.
- Review the summary information, and click Install.
- Select which tool you want to start when this upgrade is
finished.
Restriction: The option to launch the Profile Management
Tool is only available when a version of WebSphere Application Server
containing the Profile Management Tool is installed.
- Click Finish.
- Click File > Exit to close Installation
Manager.