Use IBM® Installation
Manager graphical user interface (GUI) to install the Load Balancer
product.
Before you begin
For information on hardware and software requirements,
including supported browsers, refer to the following Web page: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=180&uid=swg27006921.
If
you have not installed or configured IBM Installation
Manager, refer to the topic on installing
IBM Installation Manager.
Uninstall any previous versions
of Load Balancer before installing Websphere Load Balancer for IPv4 and IPv6; two versions
of Load Balancer cannot be installed on the same machine. If you have
an earlier version installed, uninstall that copy before installing
the current version. Refer to Uninstalling the product for
more information.
Procedure
- Login as a user root, or an administrator, and start Installation
Manager.
- Click Install. If you
are prompted to authenticate, use the IBM ID
and password that you registered with on the program's web site.
Installation Manager will search its defined repositories for available
packages.
- Select IBM Websphere Edge Components: Load Balancer for IPv4 and IPv6 and
the most recent version number.
Avoid trouble: If
you already installed the product using Installation Manager, Installation
Manager will display a message that you are not allowed to install
more than one instance in a system.
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- Click Next.
Avoid trouble: If you installed a previous version of the product
using installers other than Installation Manager, Installation Manager
will not allow you to proceed with the installation. Uninstall the
older version of the product, and proceed with the installation using
Installation Manager. Refer to
Uninstalling the product, if installed without Installation Manager if
you have installed earlier versions using installers other than IBM Installation Manager.
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- Accept the terms in the license agreements, and click Next.
- Review the installation location. The Installation
Location panel will appear. This panel also displays the shared resources
directory and disk-space information.
- Click Next.
- Select the languages for which translated content should
be installed, and click Next. English
is always selected.
- Select any features that you want to install, and click Next. Choose from the following optional features:
- Dispatcher
- The Dispatcher component performs load balancing for servers within
a local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN) for all Internet
services, such as HTTP, FTP, HTTPS, and Telnet. For HTTP services,
Dispatcher can perform load balancing of servers based on the URL
content of the client request.
- Metric Server
- Metric Server provides server load information to the Load Balancer
in the form of system-specific metrics, reporting on the health of
the servers.
Tip: You can run the Installation Manager
later to modify this installation, and add or remove features.
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If you are using a
64-bit operating system that has a corresponding 32-bit image for
the product, choose to install the 32-bit version of the application
server or the 64-bit version, and click Next. This panel displays only if you are using a 64-bit operating
system.
- Review the summary information, and click Install. Review the results:
- If the installation is successful, the program will display a
message indicating that the installation is successful. The program
might also display important post-installation instructions.
- If the installation is not successful, click View Log
File to troubleshoot the problem.
- Click Finish.
- Close Installation Manager. Click .
What to do next
The installation process does not add the command directories
for Load Balancer into the PATH environment variable. To run Load
Balancer commands from the system root, add the command directories
to the PATH environment variable.
Avoid trouble: If you installed previous
installation of the Dispatcher component, be aware that
Websphere Load Balancer for IPv4 versions of
the Dispatcher component used commands in the /usr/bin directory,
which might be in the PATH variable.
Websphere Load Balancer for IPv4 and IPv6 has commands
in the install_root/bin directory, so ensure that the directory entries
point to the appropriate directories for the dsserver and dscontrol
command.
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