Installing an IIP

Install an integrated installation package (IIP) with the installation wizard

Before you begin

Before you use the installation tools, read this topic to prepare for installation and to learn about installation options. Also read the hardware and software requirements on the Supported hardware and software Web site to get started.

About this task

You must use the Installation Factory to create an IIP before you can install the IIP. See Developing and installing integrated installation packages for more information about creating an IIP. To install an IIP silently see Installing an IIP silently.

The installation wizard installs each contribution in the order which was defined by the user during IIP creation. Although the IIP installer does not perform any prerequisite checking, each contribution installer will perform its own checking and will fail if the machine has not met the system requirements for that product.

If an IIP contains multiple contributions which are capable of installing remotely to i5/OS (which is the case with several of the WebSphere Application Server install packages), the user will need to authenticate with the remote system each time a contribution is invoked, instead of once for the entire IIP. If you are including a feature pack CIP, please note that you cannot install a feature pack or interim fixes remotely using a CIP. You must run the CIP locally on your i5/OS machine using the command-line interface. See Installing a CIP using a Windows workstation graphical interface for more information on installing the product, without any fixes, remotely from a Windows workstation.

Procedure

  1. Plan your installation.

    See Task overview: installing.

  2. Prepare your operating platform for installation.

    You must prepare your operating system to install all of the various products which are in the IIP or a contribution might fail. Review the prerequisites for each product before installing the IIP. Please see System Requirements for WebSphere Application Server V6.1 for more information on prerequisites for the application server products.

    See Preparing the operating system for installation.

  3. Log on to the operating system.
  4. Insert the CD or DVD with the IIP into the disc drive, or access the directory where the IIP is located. If the IIP is on disc, you must use the -iipLogFile parameter to redirect the log location because the installer will not be able to write a log to the media. See IIP installation options for the available installation command line and response file parameters.
  5. Start the installation directly with the install command. Refer to the installation options referenced in step 4.
  6. The installer wizard initializes and the Welcome panel is displayed.

    Click About to see information about the author, organization, version, and all included packages. Click Next.

  7. The Installation selection panel is displayed.

    This panel lists all of the contribution invocations in the IIP, and their properties, in the order that they will be invoked. You may only change certain properties of each contribution depending on whether the IIP creator decided to allow those user changes at runtime. The Description field beneath the contributions table is read-only and will change depending on which contribution is selected.

    • Installation name

      Specifies the installation name of the selected package. This is read only.

    • Status

      Specifies whether the package is selected to be installed or is deselected before installation based on whether the checkbox at the beginning of the row has been selected. Deselected packages are skipped by the IIP install wizard during installation. If you remove a package which is a prerequisite for another package then you are unable to install the next package. For example, if you deselect the application server package , then you are unable to install a feature pack if you have no existing application server on the machine in the target directory.

      This field also indicates the installation status of the package during and after installation. At the end of each installation, the status field shows whether the installation was successful. If it was not successful, the IIP will run the exit code action which you or the IIP creator specified for that package. The available status codes are the following:

      • Success

        The package installed successfully.

      • Fail

        The package failed to install.

      • Partial Success

        The package installed successfully, but certain post-installation scripts failed to complete successfully.

      • CanceledByUser

        The package installer was canceled by the user.

      • Unknown

        The package installer failed to complete successfully with unknown errors.

    • Installation mode

      Specifies whether the selected installation package installs interactively with a wizard or silently using the specified response file.

    • Installation directory

      Specifies the target installation directory for the selected installation package.

    • Response file directory path and file name

      Specifies the response file location for the selected installation package. A response file must be specified if you are installing the selected package silently.

    Select an invocation and click Modify to edit the properties which are available to you. Once you have modified all of the necessary options, click Install to begin the installation.

  8. The installation begins. You can track the status of each contribution with the Installation progress bar at the bottom of the panel. At the end of each installation, the status field shows whether the installation was successful. There is also a progress bar which shows the status of the overall IIP installation.

    If a contribution fails to install, then the IIP installer will perform one of three actions which you or the IIP creator specified for that contribution invocation that are associated with that exit code:

    Table 1. Exit code actions
    Action Description
    Ask user whether to stop or to continue the installation Control is returned to the IIP installer wizard and you are prompted to perform some action. For example, you can change the selection of remaining contributions to install, stop installing, or continue installing without changing the current package installation.
    Continue installing the integrated installation package The exit code will be ignored and the IIP installation process will continue to the next installation package invocation.
    Stop installing the integrated installation package The package installation process will be stopped and control is returned to the IIP installer.

    A contribution installation that is a partial success or has been cancelled by the user will return control to the IIP installer which will perform one of three actions associated with the exit code in Table 1. The default is Stop installing the integrated installation package unless specified otherwise during IIP creation.

    If you click Cancel on the IIP installation wizard at any time during the installation, the current package will continue installing until it is completed but the remaining contributions will not be installed. You can modify the remaining contributions and continue the installation or you can choose to exit the installation wizard. If you click Cancel before the installation of any packages, the installer will exit the wizard after prompting you with a confirmation dialog window.

  9. Click the View Log button next to the packages list to view the log for the selected package. You can also choose to browse for the log file and view it through a text editor of your choice. Please consult that product's documentation for log file locations.
    You can view the overall IIP log file by clicking the View Log button next to the installation status section. You can also view the log through a text editor of your choice by opening it directly:
  10. Click Finish to exit the installation wizard.

Results

You have installed an integrated installation package.

What to do next

Note: If an included contribution fails to install, you might need to edit that contribution's response file, which is different from the overall IIP response file. By default, contribution response files are located in IIP_home/ResponseFiles.

See Fast paths for WebSphere Application Server for information about getting started deploying applications.




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