You can install maintenance for WebSphere® Application
Server and all stack products installed in the same WebSphere Application
Server home directory.
Before you begin
Ensure that the most recent version of the Update Installer
is installed on a target system locally.
Use the Update Installer program from the same user
ID that installed the product that you are updating. Otherwise, the
file ownership mismatches might require correction by the root user.
See Using root or non-root when installing with the Update Installer for more information.
About this task
The Update Installer is capable of automatically selecting
the recommended maintenance for stack products and determining the
appropriate installation sort order of the maintenance packages. For
example, if multiple feature packs are installed and there is a recommended
fix pack and interim fix for each product, the Update Installer will
determine if this maintenance is applicable and install them in the
correct order. The following steps lead you through the process of
installing multiple maintenance packages.
Procedure
- Download the required packages from the official IBM® support
Web site into the updi_root/maintenance directory.
It is also recommended you download the maintenance for any stack
products in this same directory.
- Make the current working directory: updi_root.
- Ensure that you stop all running processes.
- Launch the Update Installer.
For example:
update.bat
update.exe
./update.sh
- The system displays the Welcome panel. Click Next.
- The system prompts for the location of the product that
needs to be updated.
- Select Install. Click Next.
- The system prompts for the maintenance location where packages
can be found.
Note: Before entering the directory name
of the location that contains the maintenance packages, notice there
are links to obtain recommended maintenance for WebSphere Application
Server. We recommend to click the link to Recommended fixes for
Websphere application Server to verify the latest maintenance
available for WebSphere Application Server has been downloaded.
Also download maintenance for any stack products installed under
the same location as you selected in step 6.
Enter the directory
name containing the packages. Click Next.
- The system displays a list of maintenance packages available
for installation. Select Recommended updates or select the packages
you need installed. The Recommended updates selects the most recent
applicable pack. Click Next. To find out more about
how the multiple installation works, refer to Logic that the Update Installer uses for system recommended installations. If you
choose to make your own selection, the system logically changes the
remaining packages available for selection based on product, prerequisite
and containment relationships.
- Confirm the information from the pre-installation confirmation
Summary panel. This panel highlights the maintenance packages to be
installed and products to be updated.
If a maintenance
package is grayed out with the designation Not applicable on
the selection panel, you can review the logs in updi_root/logs/latest_temp_folder to
find out why the maintenance package is not currently appropriate
for installation.
- On the Confirmation panel, you can also ensure that you
have the correct permissions to perform the installation of a maintenance
package.
- To ensure you have the correct permissions to apply
maintenance, select Verify My Permissions.
After the permission checking finishes, the confirmation panel displays
the permission checking results. If permission checking succeeds,
then Verify My Permissions is deselected. You
can then click Next to install maintenance. If permission checking
fails, then Verify My Permissions remains selected.
You can perform the necessary actions to resolve your permission problems
and then verify your permissions again.
- If you deselect Verify My Permissions and
click Next, then you skip permission checking and the Update
Installer performs the installation. If you do not have all of the
necessary permissions, then the installation fails.
- The Update Installer shows progress as backup and installation
of maintenance packages are completed.
After all maintenance
packages have been selected and verified to be installable as a group,
the installer installs the packages in the following sequence:
- Refresh packs
- Fix packs
- Enabling interim fixes (automatically installed)
- Interim fixes
- Interim features.
Prerequisite checking continues to apply as each maintenance
package is installed. Any failure that is detected stops the install
flow. The message is displayed and you can find details in the installation
logs covering the failure.
- A final panel displays the Summary panel. This panel reports
information about the completed install action taken. The user is
prompted to click Finish to exit the wizard.
- Review the log to verify maintenance was installed successfully.
The log can be found at app_server_root/logs/update/maintenance_package.install.
Results
One of the following results will appear in the log.
- INSTCONFSUCCESS
- The operation was a success.
- INSTCONFPARTIALSUCCESS
- The operation was partially successful, refer to the log for more
details.
- INSTCONFFAILED
- The operation failed, refer to the log for more details.