Silently installing a Rational product from a shared network drive

This procedure has three parts: downloading the installation files, recording a response file, and running the silent installation. IBM® Installation Manager is used only to record the response file.

Procedure

  1. Download the Rational® product from IBM Passport Advantage®.
  2. Download the IBM Rational Enterprise Deployment v7.1 platform installation files from IBM Passport Advantage. The Rational Enterprise Deployment files are a part of the same eAssembly as the Rational product. For background information, see Rational Enterprise Deployment files.
  3. Extract the installation files for both the Rational product and Installation Manager to a shared network drive. Here are some examples of directories on the shared network drive that contain the extracted files:
    Windows® systems
    C:\installation_files\Rational_product
    C:\installation_files\EnterpriseCD-platform\InstallationManager
    Linux® or UNIX® systems
    /installation_files/Rational_product
    /installation_files/EnterpriseCD-platform/InstallationManager
  4. Locate the agent.installer.platform-version.zip file in the InstallationManager directory. Extract this file to the InstallationManager directory.

    After extracting the file, you can determine the version of Installation Manager by checking the config.ini file. For more information, see Determining the version of Installation Manager.


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