Installing an Adapter Capacity Pack using the GUI

To successfully install an Adapter Capacity Pack, you and your system must meet the following prerequisites:

The installation GUI supplied with the Adapter Capacity Pack installs and registers with the InterChange Server Express up to three adapters, which can be selected from the list in the section Deciding which adapter to install. The installer installs and registers only one adapter at a time (thus, you must run the Adapter Capacity Pack installer separately for each adapter you want to install).

To invoke the Launchpad to launch the installation GUI, do the following:

  1. Select the button labeled Install Capacity Pack from the left column of the Launchpad.

    The Install Capacity Pack screen appears with two buttons.

  2. Select Install Adapter Capacity Pack.

    The Select User screen appears.

  3. On the Select User screen, type the name of the user who will install the Adapter Capacity Pack, and then select Install Product. A dialog appears, which requests that you insert the appropriate CD into the machine.
  4. Insert the appropriate CD into the machine and select OK. (If the Launchpad does not detect the installation program, an "Open" dialog box is displayed, in which you must select the location to which the CD is mounted.) The GUI launches to install the Adapter Capacity Pack and the Welcome screen appears.
  5. At the Welcome screen, select Next.

    The Software License Agreement screen appears.

  6. Read and accept the terms of the Software License Agreement by selecting the radio button beside the entry I accept the terms in the license agreement, then selecting Next.

    The installer checks that the prerequisites listed at the beginning of this section have been met. If any have not been met, it forces you to cancel the installation by selecting the Cancel button. If all prerequisites have been met, the Feature screen appears.

    Note:
    If you are running the installer in a non-English locale, a button labeled English appears on the Software License Agreement screen. Select this button to view the software license agreement in English. The text of the button then changes to the non-English language used for the installer. Select the button again to display the software license agreement in the non-English language used for the installer.
  7. On the Feature screen, select one adapter from the list of available adapters, by selecting the radio button beside its name, then select Next. For more information about which adapter to select, see the section Deciding which adapter to install.

    One of the following screens appears:

  8. On the Server IP Address Configuration screen, type the IP address of the computer on which you have installed the InterChange Server Express component. If the InterChange Server Express is on an OS/400 machine, select the checkbox beside the entry InterChange Server Express is on OS/400. Then select Next. One of the following screens appears:
  9. On the Server Name Configuration screen, do the following:
    1. Type the name of the InterChange Server Express instance on the OS/400 machine. (The default is QWBIDFT. If you created a different name for your instance, type it instead.)
    2. Type the ORB port number. (The default is 14500. If you used a different port number, type it instead.)

    Then select Next.

    The InterChange Server Express Password screen appears.

  10. On the InterChange Server Express Password screen, type the password of the user admin for the InterChange Server Express, and then select Next.

    The Pre-installation Summary screen appears.

  11. On the Pre-installation Summary screen, review your selection and installation location and select Next.

    The installer verifies that enough disk space exists for the installation. Installation then proceeds, as follows:

  12. On the Post-installation Summary screen, select Finish to exit the installation GUI.

Deciding which adapter to install

Running the Adapter Capacity Pack installer allows you to choose one adapter component from the following:

Notes:

  1. Some adapters have corresponding Object Discovery Agents (ODAs), which are installed if those adapters are selected. With any adapter selection, the following components are also installed:

  2. The Adapter for MetaSolv Applications, Adapter for JD Edwards OneWorld, Adapter for Siebel eBusiness Applications, Adapter for i2, and Adapter for PeopleSoft are supported only on the Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 platforms. However, each of these adapters can be configured as a distributed adapter to communicate with InterChange Server Express installed on the Linux platform. For information on configuring distributed adapters, see the System Implementation Guide.

For descriptions of individual adapters, see the Adapter documentation at the following Web site: http://www.ibm.com/websphere/wbiserverexpress/infocenter.

Updating the license file

The Adapter Capacity Pack installer and uninstaller update the adapter license file in the InterChange Server Express component of WebSphere Business Integration Server Express Plus any time an adapter is installed or uninstalled. In this way, the license file is always current. Up to three adapters installed from an Adapter Capacity Pack can be registered with the InterChange Server Express. These three adapters can be registered in addition to the one to five adapters you might have installed during WebSphere Business Integration Server Express Plus installation.

The installer and uninstaller obtain the connection password of the InterChange Server Express from the InterChange Server Express Password screen during the installation and uninstallation processes. Near the end of the installation and uninstallation processes, a message dialog informs you if the adapter was registered successfully; an error dialog alerts you if registration was unsuccessful or if you exceeded the maximum number of adapters that can be registered with the InterChange Server Express.

Note:
You can install as many adapters as you want. However, a maximum of eight adapters can be registered with the InterChange Server Express. This total number is composed of the up to five adapters you might have selected during installation of WebSphere Business Integration Server Express Plus plus the number of adapters you have installed by running the Adapter Capacity Pack installer.

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