You can use the Installation Manager GUI to install the
Pluggable Application Client.
Before you begin
Install Installation Manager: - Perform one of the following procedures:
- If you want to use the Installation Manager that is included 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.
Notes: - 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.
- With the Packaging Utility, you can create and manage packages
for installation repositories. You can copy multiple packages into
one repository or copy multiple disks for one product into a repository.
You can copy packages from Passport Advantage or a web-based
repository into a local repository for example. For more information
on the Packaging Utility, go to the IBM Installation
Manager Version 1.6 Information Center.
- Change to the location containing the Installation Manager installation
files, and as an administrator, run the following command:
install.exe
The
installer opens an Install Packages window.
- Make sure that the Installation Manager package is selected, and
click Next.
- Accept the terms in the license agreements, and click Next.
The
program creates the directory for your installation.
- Click Next.
- Review the summary information, and click Install.
- If the installation is successful, the program displays a message
indicating that installation is successful.
- If the installation is not successful, click View Log
File to troubleshoot the problem.
- If you already have Installation Manager Version 1.5.2 or later
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 product 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.PLUGCLIENT.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
for the value of the -repositories parameter so that the imcl command
can access the files in this repository to install the product.
Whenever
possible, you should use the remote web-based repositories so that
you are accessing the most up-to-date installation files.
Notes: - 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.
- With the Packaging Utility, you can create and manage packages
for installation repositories. You can copy multiple packages into
one repository or copy multiple disks for one product into a repository.
You can copy packages from Passport Advantage or a web-based
repository into a local repository for example. For more information
on the Packaging Utility, go to the IBM Installation
Manager Version 1.6 Information Center.
- Add the product repository to your Installation Manager preferences.
- Start Installation Manager.
- In the top menu, click File > Preferences.
- Select Repositories.
- Perform the following actions:
- Click Add Repository.
- Enter the path to the repository.config file
in the location containing the repository files.
For example:
C:\repositories\product_name\local-repositories
or
http://www.ibm.com/software/repositorymanager/com.ibm.websphere.PLUGCLIENT.v85
- Click OK.
- Deselect any locations listed in the Repositories window that
you will not be using.
- Click Apply.
- Click OK.
- Click File > Exit to close Installation
Manager.
Procedure
- 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.
- Perform the following actions.
- Select Pluggable Application Client for IBM WebSphere
Application Server and the appropriate version.
Attention: Pluggable Application Client has limitations when
running on Windows Server 2008 as a non-administrator user. Specifically,
the versioninfo.bat and historyinfo.bat files that are located in
the ..\PlugClient\bin directory return invalid
path errors. The errors occur because of the inability of non-administrator
users to access Oracle JRE components due to user permissions.
Note: If you are installing the ILAN version of this
product, select Pluggable Application Client for IBM WebSphere
Application Server (ILAN).
If you already have
the Pluggable Application Client installed on your system, a message
displays indicating that the Pluggable Application Client is already
installed. For a given Installation Manager, you can install only
one Pluggable Application Client.
Tip: If the Search service repositories during installation
and updates option is selected on the Installation Manager
Repository preference page and you are connected to the Internet,
you can click Check for Other Versions and Extensions to
search for updates in the default update repositories for the selected
packages. In this case, you do not need to add the specific service-repository
URL to the Installation Manager Repository preference page.
- Select the fixes to install.
Any recommended fixes are selected by default.
If there
are recommended fixes, you can select the option to show only recommended
fixes and hide non-recommended fixes.
- Click Next.
Note: Installation Manager might prompt you to update to the
latest level of Installation Manager when it connects to the repository.
Update to the newer version before you continue if you are prompted
to do so. Read the
IBM Installation
Manager Version 1.6 Information Center for information about
automatic updates.
- Accept the terms in the license agreements, and click Next.
- Specify the installation root directory for the product
binaries, which are also referred to as the core product files or
system files.
The panel also displays the shared resources
directory and disk-space information.
- Click Next.
- Optional: Select Pluggable Application
Client Samples if you want to install the samples.
Tip: You can run the Installation Manager later
to modify this installation and add or remove the samples feature.
- Click Next.
- Enter the host name and port number of the Websphere Application
Server to which you want to connect, and click Next.
- Enter the location of the SUN JRE to use with the clients.
- Optional: Enter the location of the SUN SDK
to use when compiling the sample clients.
- Click Next.
- Review the summary information, and click Install.
- Click Finish.
- Click File > Exit to close Installation
Manager.