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Creating custom installation repositories with IBM Packaging Utility

IBM WebSphere Application Server uses IBM Installation Manager for product installation and lifecycle management. Installation Manager accesses source repositories that contain the content for a software product installation. Repositories are available on product media, in IBM-hosted web-based repositories, and from Passport Advantage. IBM Packaging Utility can help you create and customize enterprise repositories that contain the correct combination of products and maintenance levels needed for all aspects of your business.

About this task

You use Installation Manager to connect to an Installation Manager repository (or set of repositories) to find products and service updates that are available to you for installation. An Installation Manager repository is simply a tree-structured file folder that includes product payload and metadata. You can install the software products that you need directly from an IBM web-based service repository or download and unpack compressed files from Passport Advantage and install the products from the resulting unpacked file folders. The result of unpacking the files is also considered to be an Installation Manager repository. Like any Installation Manager repository, these unpacked files can be hosted on an internal HTTP server, FTP server, or network mount in order to make them available to the organization.

Packaging Utility is a companion tool for Installation Manager with which you can create and manage custom Installation Manager repositories for your organization. You can copy multiple packages, maintenance levels, and fixes into a single repository. Packaging Utility copies from source repositories to your target custom repositories. Source repositories can include any accessible Installation Manager repository, including IBM web-hosted product repositories and unzipped Passport Advantage downloads.

For more information on Packaging Utility, see the Installation Manager documentation.

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