Upgrading the Express trial to the Express product using a CIP

This topic describes one of the installation options for a customized installation package (CIP) that includes the IBM WebSphere Application Server - Express, Version 6 product and one or more maintenance packages. This topic describes how to use the installation wizard to upgrade a trial installation of the Express product to the full Express product.

Before you begin

This topics assumes that you have a CIP that contains the full Express product.

For information on creating a CIP, see IBM Installation Factory for WebSphere Application Server.

Knowing what component to install and in what order to install the component is an important consideration. At some time before starting this installation, see Planning to install WebSphere Application Server - Express.

About this task

Perform the following installation to upgrade a trial installation to the full WebSphere Application Server - Express product.

Procedure

  1. Log on to the operating system.

    Log on as root on an operating system such as AIX® or Linux®, or as a member of the administrator group on a Windows® system.

    [AIX] [HP-UX] [Linux] [Solaris] In addition, select a umask that would allow the owner to read/write to the files, and allow others to access them according to the prevailing system policy. For root, a umask of 022 is recommended. For non-root users a umask of 002 or 022 could be used, depending on whether or not the users share the group. To verify the umask setting, issue the following command:
    umask
    To set the umask setting to 022, issue the following command:
    umask 022
    [Windows] When installing on a Windows system, a Windows service is automatically created to autostart the application server if your installer user account has the following advanced user rights:
    • Act as part of the operating system
    • Log on as a service
    For example, on some Windows systems, click Administrative Tools > Local Security Policy > User Rights Assignments to set the advanced options. See your Windows documentation for more information.

    [Windows] The installation wizard grants your Windows user ID the advanced user rights, if the user ID belongs to the administrator group. The silent installation does not grant these rights. If you create a new user ID on a Windows platform to perform a silent installation, you must restart the system to activate the proper authorizations for the user ID before you can perform a successful silent installation.

    [Windows] If you plan to run the application server as a Windows service, do not install from a user ID that contains spaces. A user ID with spaces cannot be validated. Such a user ID is not allowed to continue the installation. To work around this problem, install with a user ID that does not contain spaces.

  2. Insert the CD-ROM or DVD with the customized installation package (CIP). Or access the directory where the CIP is located. If necessary, mount the disc drive as described in Mounting disc drives on operating systems such as AIX or Linux.
  3. Start the installation directly with the install command.
    1. Change to the WAS directory.
    2. Run the install command.
      • ./install
      • [Windows] install

    After launching the CIP installation wizard from the command line, the wizard initializes and then displays the Welcome panel. Click About this custom installation package to display detailed information about the current custom installation package, such as the edition and version.

  4. Click Next to continue.

    The license agreement displays.

  5. Read the license agreement and accept its terms.

    Click the radio button beside the message I accept the terms in the license agreement to agree to the license agreement and click Next to continue.

    After you accept the licensing terms, the installation wizard checks for a supported operating system and prerequisite patches. If you encounter a problem such as not having the right prerequisite updates on your system, cancel the installation, make the required changes, and restart the installation.

    Although the installation wizard automatically checks for prerequisite operating system patches with the prereqChecker application, review the prerequisites on the WebSphere® Application Server detailed system requirements web site if you have not already done so.

    Although the installation process verifies that the minimum required version of the operating system is available, the installation process might not correctly flag a maintenance upgrade of that operating system version as being a supported configuration. If you have upgraded your supported operating system version to a higher maintenance level and you receive the following error message, then you can ignore the message and click Next.
    Avoid trouble: Although maintenance upgrades of the same major release are supported, subsequent major releases of the operating system might not be supported.gotcha
    Failed : Your operating system failed the
    prerequisites check.
    
    A supported operating system was not detected. Support for your
    operating system might have been added after the release of the
    product.

    The Web site lists all supported operating systems and the operating system fixes and patches that you must install to have a compliant operating system.

    Refer to the documentation for non-IBM prerequisite and corequisite products to learn how to migrate to their supported versions.

  6. After confirming that your operating system is supported and that you have installed all necessary patches, click Next to continue.

    The installation wizard checks for a previous installation at the same major product level.

    If the wizard detects a previous installation, it displays the Existing installation panel, where you can:
    • Add maintenance to the existing installation
    • Add features to the existing installation
    • Add files, directories, enterprise application archive (EAR) files, and configuration archive (CAR) files to the existing installation
    • Use scripts to configure the existing system
    • Perform a new installation to another directory
    • Perform an upgrade of a trial installation to the full product
    • Perform an upgrade of an Express® installation to the full product

    This task describes the scenario where a previous installation of the Express Trial exists and you are installing a CIP to upgrade the trial. The CIP includes the Express product and one or more maintenance packages.

    After upgrading, install the CIP again to install the maintenance to the upgraded product.

    Select the Upgrade option and click Next. The installer program installs the new license files and updates the system properties to indicate that the full product is installed.

Results

The wizard completes the upgrade. The wizard exits at the end of the upgrade without presenting another panel.

This procedure results in upgrading a trial installation to the full WebSphere Application Server - Express product.

What to do next

You can install the CIP again to add features or install maintenance. Or you can use the Profile Creation wizard to create more stand-alone application servers.

See Creating profiles using the graphical user interface for more information.

If you have already created the topology that you require, try deploying an application in your environment.

See Fast paths for WebSphere Application Server to get started deploying applications.




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