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Verifying checksums of installed files

After installing the product or after installing maintenance, compute checksums of installed files to verify against the product bill of materials.

Before you begin

Install WebSphere Process Server at the version 6.0.1 level or later to install the installver_wbi command tool. After installing the command, you can compare checksums of the installed files to the shipped bill of materials.

Why and when to perform this task

This topic describes using the installver_wbi command to compute a checksum on the installed files and compare the checksum to the product bill of materials.

The installver_wbi tool can also compute a new baseline checksum for each file in the inventory of a configured system to use to identify file changes in later comparisons. Such a comparison is useful for detecting file tampering on the configured system, for example.

Although the most common use of the tool is to compare the product bill of materials to the installed file set, other tasks are also possible.

Result

When you are satisfied that your installed or updated file set matches the product bill of materials, you are finished installing and verifying the product or updating and verifying the product.

If you detect a problem, see if the problem is a known problem by checking the Support page.

What to do next

After verifying your installation, you can create profiles or deploy an application on an existing WebSphere Process Server profile.

After installing, updating, and verifying, the next step is to use the product. See Starting the First Steps console for more information.

Related tasks
Computing a new baseline checksum for an inventory of configured files
Changing the default message digest algorithm
Verifying against the bill of materials
Excluding files from a checksum comparison
Comparing specific file and component checksums
Handling out-of-memory situations

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