Installing Application Client for WebSphere Application Server silently

This topic provides the steps necessary to use the installation wizard and perform a silent installation.

About this task

Use these steps to perform a silent installation, which uses the installation wizard to install the product. Instead of displaying a user interface, the silent installation provides interaction between you and the wizard by reading all of your responses from a file that you must customize.

Procedure

  1. [AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows] Verify that the user ID that you are using to run the silent installation has sufficient authority to perform the task.
  2. [AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows] Customize the option response file.
    1. Locate the sample options response file. The file name is setup.response in the operating system platform directory on the product CD-ROM.
    2. Make a copy to preserve the original response file. For example, copy the file as myoptionsfile.
    3. Edit the copy in your flat file editor of choice, on the target operating system. Read the directions within the response file to choose appropriate values.

      [AIX] To prepare the file for a silent installation on AIX, use UNIX line-end characters (0x0D0A) to terminate each line of the options response file.

    4. Make a non-commented option to have a silent install.
    5. Include custom option responses that reflect parameters for your system.
    6. Follow the instructions in the response file to choose appropriate values.
    7. Save the file.
  3. [AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows] Issue a command to use your custom response file: Install.exe -options myoptionsfile for Windows platforms and install -options ./myoptionsfile for Linux and UNIX platforms.

    The sample options response file is located in the operating-system platform directory on the product CD-ROM.

    1. Issue the following command from a command prompt to update your response file: -W silentInstallLicenseAcceptance.value="true' .

      Issuing this command indicates that you accept all IBM license terms associated with this product, which is necessary for installing application clients.

  4. [Windows] Optional: Restart your machine in response to the prompt that appears on Windows platforms when the installation is complete.

Results

You installed application clients silently by using the response file.
Attention: Troubleshooting an invalid response file name that was submitted during the silent installation. If you get a response file error, the response file name may have been typed incorrectly. Verify that this is the problem by removing the -silent command and leaving -options <responsefile>. You may get a pop-up window or command line error stating that the wizard cannot continue because of the following error: The response file was not found (1001) (403). The response file that you are passing cannot be found on the system. Make sure that the path is correct, with no spelling mistakes, and try the installation again.

What to do next

[AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows] To verify the silent install, look for the string RC=INSTCONFSUCCESS in the log.txt file for successful installation and RC=INSTCONFFAILED for a failed installation.

[AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows] When the InstallShield for MultiPlatforms (ISMP) fails and the log.txt file is not created, the error log file might have been created in the <client_install_root>/logs/log.txt directory. To specify the location of the error log file, use the ISMP command line option. See the following example: ./install -options setup.response -log !d:\temp\log.txt.




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