Silent installs require a response file. You can download
a sample response file, manually create a response file, or record
a response file with Installation Manager. Recording a response file
requires Installation Manager to be installed.
Before you begin
Silent installs require a response file. You can download
a sample response file, manually create a response file, or record
a response file with Installation Manager. Recording a response file
requires Installation Manager to be installed.
You must record
a response file on the same platform that you will be installing on.
For example, to install on a Windows machine,
you must record the response file on a Windows machine. You can record a response
file on Windows XP and use
the response file on another supported version of Windows. To install on a Linux machine, you must record the response
file on a Linux machine.
If
you plan to install on multiple platforms, you must have a response
file for each platform. You can download a sample response file for
the different platforms and manually edit the response file. If you
edit a sample response file, you do not need to install Installation
Manager. You can also record a response file for the different platforms.
To record the response files, you must install Installation Manager
on each platform. For example, you install Installation Manager on
a Windows platform and on
an AIX® platform to create response
files for Windows machines
and AIX machines.
The
extracted files contain the product repository. You do not need to
create a repository. The Rational® product
installation files and the Installation Manager installation files
from Rational Enterprise
Deployment should be in separate repositories.
If you want
to use only one repository for all installation files or you are installing
from an HTTP server, you must use Packaging Utility to create a repository
that contains all the installation files.
The Installation Manager
installation files are located on the network shared drive because
the installation of the Rational product
requires access to the Installation Manager installer. In this scenario,
you do not install Installation Manager on the network shared drive.
: Some versions of Rational ClearCase® and Rational ClearQuest® do not ship with a default
response file.
Procedure
- Check user requirements before installing. Rational Team products require administrator
access.
- Mount a directory or map a shared drive from the network
shared drive to the admin machine. Select a drive that is common
to the machines that you are installing on. The response file stores
the drive and directory location for the repositories.
In
a later step you specify the repositories located on the remote server.
Note that if the response file saves the location as g:\installation_files\EnterpriseCD-Windows\InstallationManager,
for example and you record a silent install on a machine that uses
the m:\ drive instead of the g:\ drive for the shared drive, the installation
will not find g:\installation_files\EnterpriseCD-Windows\InstallationManager.
You can also edit the response file to change the drive.
- Install Installation Manager on the admin machine. You
use the Installation Manager GUI to record the response file.
- If the Rational product
requires administrator access to run the installation, install Installation
Manager using the administrator commands:
Windows:
shared_drive:\install_files\install.exe
Linux or UNIX systems:
/install_files/install
Note: On Windows, use install.exe for
installations that use the GUI. Use installc.exe for
silent installs. Using install.exe for silent installs
is not supported.
Note: Log files are in these locations:
- Windows: C:\Documents
and Settings\All Users\Application Data\IBM\Installation Manager\logs
- Linux or UNIX systems: /var/ibm/InstallationManager/logs
On Windows, logs
files are stored in a different location when not installing as an
administrator.
- After the Installation Manager installation completes,
you are prompted to restart Installation Manager. Close Installation
Manager after it restarts.
- On the local machine, open a command prompt to the Eclipse
directory located under the installed Installation Manager directory:
- Windows: install_dir\Installation
Manager\eclipse
- Linux or UNIX systems: /install_dir/InstallationManager/eclipse
The default location for Windows is C:\Program
Files\IBM\Installation Manager\eclipse. The default location
for Linux or UNIX systems is /opt/IBM/InstallationManager/eclipse/.
- Run the command to record a response file for the Rational product installation.
Remember the name and location of the response file as you will need
this information in a later step.
- Windows: IBMIM
-record c:\response_file\install_clearcase80.xml -skipInstall c:\skipInstall_directory\install_clearcase80
- Linux or UNIX Systems: ./IBMIM –record
/response_file/install_clearcase80.xml -skipInstall skipInstall_dir/install_clearcase80
where install_clearcase80.xml is the response
file being recorded and skipInstall_directory\install_clearcase80 is
the location where the skipInstall folders and files are created.Note: The
-skipInstall option records a response file without installing the Rational product The directory
location agentDataLocation must be a writable directory.
When you
create a response file using -skipInstall, you must keep the directory,
folders and files created for agentDataLocation. This allows you
to modify the response file using the option -record at a later time.
You can also manually edit the response file.
You can specify
a directory on the admin machine or on the network shared drive for
either the response file location or agentDataLocation. To modify
the response file at a later time using Installation Manager, you
must use the same directory locations.
Verify the file paths
you enter exist. Installation Manager does not create directories
for the response file. You do not need to create the response file.
The
text (Recording...) displays in the Installation Manager
title when you are recording a response file.
The Installation
Manager Information Center contains the latest information on creating
a response file. For more information on the commands to create a
response file and available command options, see http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/install/v1r5/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.silentinstall12.doc/topics/c_silent_response_files.html
- After recording the response file, add the Rational product and Installation Manager
repository locations.
- Go to File > Preferences > Repositories.
- Add the repository location for the Rational product installation files by selecting diskTag.inf. The
repository location in this scenario is located on the network shared
drive. The repository location was created when you extracted the
installation files for the Rational product.
- Windows: g:\installation_files\Rational_product\disk1\diskTag.inf,
where g:\ points to the shared drive from the network shared drive.
- Linux or UNIX Systems: /installation_files/Rational_product/disk1/diskTag.inf
Note: Notes® these differences
between repository.config and diskTag.inf.
The file repository.config is a file that can be
created using the Packaging Utility or obtained from the installation
files. For fix packs, this file is usually in the install_files\RationalProduct directory.
The file diskTag.inf indicates to Installation
Manager that the files are from a disk image. diskTag.inf can
be across multiple disks. You cannot create a diskTag.inf file
with Packaging Utility, but you can select a diskTag.inf in
Packaging Utility. diskTag.inf cannot be used from
an HTTP server. Fix packs do not contain a diskTag.inf file.
Note: This
scenario does not use Launchpad. Launchpad is shipped only with disk
images and uses only diskTag.inf. Launchpad
does not use repository.config.
- Set preferences.
- In the Preferences window, select Repositories.
Enable or disable Search service repositories during installation
and updates as appropriate for your environment. This
option is stored as offering.service.repositories.areUsed in
the response file.
- In the Preferences window, select Updates.
Enable or disable Search for Installation Manager updates as
appropriate for your environment. This option is stored as com.ibm.cic.common.core.preferences.searchForUpdates in
the response file.
- Click OK.
- Step through the install, populating the fields as appropriate
for your environment.
- After the installation is finished, close Installation
Manager to finish the recording of the response file.
- To silently install Installation Manager, modify the response
file.
Note: You cannot record a silent response file
for Installation Manager with Installation Manager installed.
- Determine the internal version value for Installation
Manager. If you have more than one set of installation files, use
the latest version.
- Open the response file
- Add an offering key to the install command using this
form: <offering features='agent_core,agent_jre' id='com.ibm.cic.agent'
version='1.4.4000.20110525_1254'/>. Version is
the internal version value, im.internal.version, for
Installation Manager. Use a comma between agent_core and agent_jre. For example:
<install>
<offering features='agent_core,agent_jre' id='com.ibm.cic.agent' version='1.4.4000.20110525_1254'>
<offering id='com.ibm.rational.clearcase.platform' version='8.0.0.00-8-0-D081110'/>
</install>
Note: It is possible to silently install Installation Manager
with a Rational product
without modifying the response file. To do so, create a batch file
or a shell script with the commands to first run a silent install
for Installation Manager and to then run a silent install for a Rational product. On Windows, use
installc.exe,
not
install.exe, for silent installs.
Example
commands:
Windowsinstall_files_IM\installc --launcher.ini silent-install.ini
install_files_Rationalproduct\install --launcher.ini silent-install.ini -input <response_file>
Linux or UNIX Systemsinstall_files_IM/installc --launcher.ini silent-install.ini
install_files_Rationalproduct/install --launcher.ini silent-install.ini -input <response_file>
- If you created the response file on the admin machine and
not on the network shared drive, you must copy the response file to
the network shared drive. You do not need to copy the agentDataLocation
directory to the remote server.
Note: You might want
to create a directory specific for response files on the network shared
drive. For example, for Windows, c:\installation_files\response_files and
for Linux or UNIX Systems, /installation_files/response_files.