Packaging

WebSphere Application Server is a family of similar products designed to deliver the right combination of economy and application serving power for your business demands. The contents of the product packages are similar, but each package has unique elements. Use this topic to familiarize yourself with the various products so that you can determine the offering that best fits your needs.

The WebSphere software platform for e-business starts with a foundation that is formed from Web application serving and integration. IBM WebSphere Application Server software provides the core software to deploy, integrate, and manage your e-business applications.

WebSphere Application Server software supports custom-built applications that are either based on integrated WebSphere software platform products or on other third-party products. Such applications can range from dynamic Web presentations to sophisticated transaction processing systems.

The management interface for all WebSphere Application Server product offerings includes a scripting interface and the administrative console, which is a Web application.

The scripting interface and the administrative console of the deployment manager are enhanced for managing all of the Application Server nodes in a distributed network cell. From the single point of control of the deployment manager, you can define servers, Web server processes, and clusters. You can start and stop servers and cluster members and deploy applications anywhere in the cell.

Product offerings

IBM WebSphere Application Server products provide a next-generation application server on an industry-standard foundation. Each product addresses a distinct set of scenarios and needs. WebSphere Application Server includes the following product offerings:

WebSphere Application Server - Express

This product is an affordable solution for creating, running and managing Web sites. The Express product provides a full J2EE application server. The runtime environment addresses standards-based programming for Web and component-based programming, as well as Web services.

The administration model for this offering is a single-server environment without clustering and without centralized administration of multiple server instances.

The development environment offering is the Application Server Toolkit and a trial version of Rational Application Developer. These products have an integrated development environment (IDE) with a graphical interface for developing code artifacts, assembling the code artifacts into various archives (modules) and configuring related J2EE deployment descriptors. They are built using Eclipse Version 3.2.1 technology.

WebSphere Application Server

This product offering addresses the basic programming and runtime needs of desktop developers and single-server production scenarios. The runtime environment addresses standards-based programming for Web and component-based programming, as well as Web services.

The administration model is a single-server environment without clustering and without centralized administration of multiple server instances.

The development environment offering is the Application Server Toolkit and a trial version of a Rational Tool product.

See Planning to install WebSphere Application Server for diagrams of topologies that support the base WebSphere Application Server environment.

WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment

This product offering addresses WebSphere Application Server processes that run in multiple-server production scenarios. Use the Network Deployment product to create:
  • Cells

    The cell profile is an ease-of-use enhancement that provides a deployment manager profile that contains a federated application server on the same machine or partition.

  • Deployment managers

    The deployment manager provides centralized administration of managed Application Server nodes and custom nodes as a single cell. The deployment manager provides basic clustering and caching support, including failover support and workload balancing. Use the Edge components in the Network Deployment package to further extend the environment with sophisticated caching, load balancing, and enhanced security functions.

  • Application servers

    The application server profile in the Network Deployment product can run in a deployment manager cell as a managed node or on its own as a standalone application server.

  • Custom

    A custom profile has an empty node that you must add to a deployment manager cell to customize and use. Use the administrative console of the deployment manager to create servers and clusters on the custom managed node. Consider the custom node as a production-ready shell, ready for customization to contain your production-level servers and applications.

Installation and operating model

In Version 6.x, the core product binary data is separate from the data that you create as you define and customize your WebSphere Application Server runtime environment. You can have multiple sets of customized runtime environments. Each environment is known as a profile.

Application server environments that are created during product installation

Product Default environments Application server processes created during installation
WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Application Server - Express One standalone application server profile and the Profile Management tool for creating other application server profiles on the same machine. server1
Network Deployment One cell that contains a deployment manager profile and a federated application server profile and the Profile Management tool for creating other profiles.
  • Deployment manager profile: Dmgr01
  • Federated application server profile: AppSrv01
  • Federated application server process: server1

Launchpad console

The launchpad is the focal point for installing from the product compact disc or DVD media, with important guidance for creating typical topology scenarios. Diagrams help you identify the types of systems that you can create. The launchpad is in the root directory of the product disc.

The launchpad works on installable components in the primary packet of discs. Select and launch any of the components on the product disc or view their HTML documentation on the disc.

Use the launchpad command if the program does not start automatically when you insert the product disc:
  • [AIX] [HP-UX] [Linux] [Solaris] ./launchpad.sh
  • [Windows] launchpad.bat

See Using the launchpad to start the installation for more information.

If you cannot start the launchpad, see the appropriate locale-specific readme file in the root directory on the disc. You can also launch the installation programs directly, using the information in the following table:
Table 1. Installable components on the product disc and the supplements disc
Launch command Documentation Name of installable component
WAS/install

WAS/readme/readme_en.html

WAS/docs/InstallGuide_en.html

The Getting Started guide contains these HTML files. The guide is also available in Adobe PDF format. Viewing the PDF format requires that you have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is a free download from the Adobe Acrobat Web site. Download the guide from: ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/webserver/appserv/library/.

The name of the component varies per product offering:
  • WebSphere Application Server – Express
  • WebSphere Application Server
  • WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment
IHS/install

IHS/readme/readme_en.html

IHS/docs/InstallGuide_en.html

The IBM HTTP Server tolerates a non-root installation, but you cannot install the Global Security Kit 7 (GSKit 7) that is required for HTTPS security. You can install IBM HTTP Server as a non-root user, then log on as root to install the GSKit program from the directory on the product disc.

IBM HTTP Server
plugin/install

plugin/readme/readme_en.html

plugin/docs/InstallGuide_en.html

See Plug-ins configuration for an overview of how Web server configuration works.

Web server plug-ins for WebSphere Application Server
AppClient/install

AppClient/readme/readme_en.html

AppClient/docs/InstallGuide_en.html

Application Client for WebSphere Application Server

Available on 32-bit operating system platforms only. Not available on Linux for zSeries (31–bit kernel).

InstallationFactory/compressed file

Decompress the file onto your system to install the Installation Factory.

InstallationFactory/readme/readme_en.html

InstallationFactory/docs/InstallGuide_en.html

IBM Installation Factory for WebSphere Application Server
UpdateInstaller/install

UpdateInstaller/readme/readme_en.html

UpdateInstaller/docs/InstallGuide_en.html

IBM Update Installer for WebSphere Software
ISA/install

ISA/readme/readme_en.html

ISA/docs/InstallGuide_en.html

IBM Support Assistant
Tip: For DVD media, if you do not use the launchpad, an additional directory prefix is required before the product directory that reflects the operating system and architecture of the installation. For example, the following installation path applies when you use CD-ROM media to install the Microsoft Windows version of the product on the 32-bit architecture:
install_root/WAS/install.exe
However, the following installation path applies when you use DVD media to install the Microsoft Windows version of the product on the 32-bit architecture:
install_root/win_ia32/WAS/install.exe

Other directories on the product and supplements discs contain components that are automatically installed during one or more of the installation procedures for the installable components.

Package descriptions

Each product package contains several Compact Discs, or CDs. You can also order Digital Versatile Discs, or DVDs, which can hold more information. The DVD product package contains fewer discs by placing the content of multiple CDs into subdirectories on a single DVD. The subdirectory names assigned to each platform are listed in the tables below.

The product discs are always in the primary disc packet.

Each product package and its installable components are described in detail in Packaging information for IBM WebSphere Application Server.

Figure 1. Installation images in WebSphere Application Server packages
WebSphere Application Server Version 6.1 family

Packaging information for IBM WebSphere Application Server

The WebSphere Application Server package contains the following sets of discs:

The product disc for the WebSphere Application Server product is in the primary package.

Discs in the primary Application Server packet

The primary Application Server packet contains the compact discs in the following table:
Disc label Versions of the disc Comments

WebSphere Application Server (32-bit)

CDs are available for the following 32-bit platforms: (Platform specific DVDs are also available. Each DVD contains the product and supplements disc content.)

  • AIX (aix_ppc32)
  • HP-UX (hpux_parisc)
  • Linux/Intel (lin_ia32)
  • Linux (PowerPC 32-bit kernel) (lin_ppc32)
  • Linux on iSeries and pSeries (os400_ppc64)
  • Linux on zSeries (31–bit kernel) (lin_s390)
  • Solaris (SPARC 32-bit kernel) (sol_sparc)
  • Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003 (win_ia32)

Each 32-bit platform-specific image contains the following installable components:

  • WebSphere Application Server in the WAS directory

Use the launchpad application in the root directory to install and view information about any of the installable components in the primary packet.

WebSphere Application Server (64-bit)

CDs are available for the following 64-bit platforms: (Platform specific DVDs are also available. Each DVD contains the product and supplements disc content.)

  • AIX 5L (i5, p4, and p5 64-bit kernel) (aix_ppc64)
  • HP-UX (Itanium 64-bit kernel) (hpux_ia64)
  • Linux (Opteron / EM64T 64-bit kernel) (lin_x64)
  • Linux (PowerPC 64-bit kernel) ()
  • Linux for zSeries (64-bit kernel) (lin_s390x)
  • Solaris (Opteron / EM64T 64-bit kernel) (sol_x64)
  • Solaris (SPARC 64-bit kernel) (sol_sparc64)
  • Windows (Opteron / EM64T 64-bit kernel) (win_x64)

Each 64-bit platform-specific image contains the following installable components:

  • WebSphere Application Server in the WAS directory

Use the launchpad application in the root directory to install and view information about any of the installable components in the primary packet.

WebSphere Application Server Supplements (31-bit)

A CD is available for the Linux for zSeries 31–bit operating system.

The following installable components are included:
  • Update Installer
  • Installation Factory
  • Migration tools
  • IBM Support Assistant
  • IBM HTTP Server in the IHS directory
  • Web server plug-ins in the plugin directory

WebSphere Application Server Supplements (32-bit)

CDs are available for the following 32-bit platforms: (Platform specific DVDs are also available. Each DVD contains the product and supplements disc content.)

  • AIX (aix_ppc32_suppl)
  • HP-UX (hpux_parisc_suppl)
  • Linux/Intel (lin_ia32_suppl)
  • Linux (PowerPC 32-bit kernel) (lin_ppc32_suppl)
  • Linux on iSeries and pSeries (os400_ppc64_suppl)
  • Solaris (SPARC 32-bit kernel) (sol_sparc_suppl)
  • Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003 (win_ia32_suppl)
Each platform-specific image contains the following installable components:
  • Update Installer
  • Installation Factory
  • Migration tools
  • IBM Support Assistant
  • IBM HTTP Server in the IHS directory
  • Web server plug-ins in the plugin directory
  • Application Client in the AppClient directory (32-bit only)

[Windows] In addition, the Windows platform CD has the Data Direct Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) drivers.

In the CD package, the Application Server Toolkit is on separate CDs in the primary packet. The Application Server Toolkit is also available on a separate DVD.

Install the Update Installer into the root directory of the product that you intend to update. For example, install the Update Installer into the app_server_root to use it to install maintenance for the WebSphere Application Server product.

Use the migration tools from the disc image, or copy the tools to your system.

The IBM Support Assistant has its own installation program.

The fonts mentioned below are on available on their own CD. They are also available on the Linux DVDs

Use your Linux system utilities to install the World Type fonts or the Devanagari fonts.

Use your operating system utilities to install the Devanagari fonts on other operating systems. The fonts support Hindi, Sanskrit and some other languages.

The launchpad application in the root directory of the disc lets you install and view information about the components on the disc.

WebSphere Application Server Supplements (64-bit)

Several 64-bit platform-specific CDs are available, or one DVD with platform-specific directories:

  • AIX 5L (i5, p4, and p5 64-bit kernel) (aix_ppc64_suppl)
  • HP-UX (Itanium 64-bit kernel) (hpux_ia64_suppl)
  • Linux (Opteron / EM64T 64-bit kernel) (lin_x64_suppl)
  • Linux (PowerPC 64-bit kernel) (lin_ppc64_suppl)
  • Linux for zSeries (64-bit kernel) (lin_s390x_suppl)
  • Solaris (Opteron / EM64T 64-bit kernel) (sol_x64_suppl)
  • Solaris (SPARC 64-bit kernel) (sol_sparc64_suppl)
  • Windows (Opteron / EM64T 64-bit kernel) (win_x64_suppl)

WebSphere Application Server Application Server Toolkit

Two different 32-bit platform versions of this CD are available, or one DVD with platform specific directories:

  • Linux (Intel)
  • Windows

The Application Server Toolkit is an Eclipse-based tool for deploying and debugging applications on WebSphere Application Server.

Application Server Toolkit contains a subset of the function provided in the Rational Application Developer tool that is included with this product. The difference is that the license for the Application Server Toolkit is an unlimited use license whereas the Rational Application Developer is a trial license for a single user.

Discs in the supplemental packet

The supplemental Application Server packets contain the compact discs in the following table:
Disc label Versions of the disc Comments

DB2 Universal Database Express Edition V8.2 (32-bit)

Developer use only

Three 32-bit platform-specific CDs are available:
  • Linux (Intel)
  • Linux (PowerPC)
  • Windows Server 2003

IBM DB2 Universal Database Express Edition is the lowest-priced, full-function relational database.

DB2 UDB Express Edition is designed to meet the needs of small and medium businesses.

DB2 UDB Express Edition features self-tuning and self-configuring capabilities for ease of manageability, Linux or Windows platform choices, and support for transparent installation with business partner applications.

See IBM DB2 Universal Database Express Edition for more information.

The IBM DB2 Universal Database Express Edition included with this product has a restricted use license. You are authorized to install and use one copy of DB2 Express for use only as a data repository for data generated and managed by WebSphere Application Server.

DB2 Universal Database Express Edition V8.2 (64-bit)

Developer use only

Two 64-bit platform-specific CDs are available:

  • Linux (PowerPC)
  • Windows Server 2003

Rational Application Developer Trial for WebSphere Application Server

Eight 32-bit platform CDs are available for two operating system platforms:
  • Linux (Intel - 4 CDs)
  • Windows (4 CDs)

Rational Application Developer is the next generation of the award-winning IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer.

Rational Application Developer is a comprehensive integrated development environment for visually designing, constructing, testing, and deploying Web services, portals, and Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) applications.

Rational Application Developer accelerates J2EE development with a complete set of high-productivity tools, templates, and wizards.

See the Application Server Toolkit in the primary package for an integrated development environment that includes an unlimited use license.

Rational Agent Controller

One CD that provides support for each of the following 32-bit operating system platforms:
  • AIX
  • HP-UX
  • Linux (Intel)
  • Linux on pSeries
  • Solaris on SPARC
  • Windows

The Rational Agent Controller provides a technology for problem determination. The Rational Agent Controller is an enhancement to the Agent Controller from the Autonomic Computing Toolkit, which IBM donated in large part to the Hyades Project.

Install the Rational Agent Controller on one of the supported machine environments. Another machine (perhaps an administrator workstation) can use the Log and Trace Analyzer to establish communication with the agent on the remote machine.

The Analyzer can request a specific log file from the Rational Agent Controller. The agent uses the appropriate log file parser to normalize the native log to a Common Base Event format and transfers the log file to the Log and Trace Analyzer.

Create log file parsers for the Rational Agent Controller with the Common Base Event model builder, which is included in the Autonomic Computing Toolkit.




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