Installing Liberty fix packs on distributed operating systems using the command line
You can use the IBM® Installation Manager command line to update the product with the fix packs that are available for WebSphere® Application Server Liberty Core.
Before you begin
Contact the IBM Software Support Center for information about updates for WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core. The most current information is available from the IBM Software Support Center and Fix Central.
If you want to install Liberty assets from
local directory-based repositories or an instance of the Liberty Asset Repository Service, configure
the repositories. For more information about the Liberty
asset repositories, see Installing assets using Installation Manager.
About this task
To install Version 8.5.5.4 and later of
Liberty, you must have IBM Installation Manager Version 1.6.2
or later.
Procedure
- For a list of interim fixes and fix packs that are available for WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core and specific information
about each fix, perform the following actions.
- Go to Fix Central.
- Select WebSphere as the product group.
- Select WebSphere Application Server as the product.
- Select the installed version.
- Select your operating system as the platform, and click Continue.
- Select Browse for fixes, and click Continue.
- Click More Information under each fix to view information about the fix.
- Recommendation: Make a note of the name of the fix pack that you would like to install.
- Update WebSphere Application Server LibertyCore with the fix pack using one of the following procedures.
- Access the live service repository that contains the fix pack, and use web-based updating.Use Installation Manager on your local system to update WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core with the interim fixes from the live web-based service repositories.
- For the live service repositories, use the same URLs as those used for the generally available
product-offering repositories during installation. These URLs are based on the following pattern:
where offering_ID is the offering ID that you can find in WebSphere Application Server product offerings for supported operating systems.http://www.ibm.com/software/repositorymanager/offering_ID
- These locations do not contain web pages that you can access using a web browser. They are remote web-based repository locations that you specify for Installation Manager so that it can maintain the product.
To install a fix pack from a service repository, perform the following actions:- Log on to your system.
- Create Installation Manager credential-storage and master-password files that contain your IBM software user ID and password. These files enable you to
access the repository and protected IBM software
websites.
When creating a credential-storage file, append /repository.config at the end of the repository URL location if the imutilsc command is unable to find the URL that is specified.
Note: For Installation Manager Version 1.6.2 and later, use the -secureStorageFile and -masterPasswordFile options to store credentials in a credential-storage file. In previous versions, the -keyring and -password options are used to access credentials in a keyring file. These options are deprecated in Version 1.6.2. There is no migration path from keyring files to storage files because of the differences in the file structures.- For more information on using the -secureStorageFile and -masterPasswordFile options to store credentials in a credential-storage file, see the Installation Manager Version 1.6 documentation.
- For more information on using the -keyring and -password options to store credentials in a keyring file, see the Installation Manager Version 1.5 documentation.
- Stop all servers and applications on the WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core installation that is being updated.
- Change to the Installation_Manager_binaries/eclipse/tools directory, where Installation_Manager_binaries is the installation root directory for the Installation Manager.
- Install the fix pack.
./imcl install offering_ID_offering_version,optional_feature_ID -repositories source_repository -installationDirectory offering_installation_location -secureStorageFile storage_file -masterPasswordFile master_password_file -acceptLicense
where offering_ID is the offering ID that is listed in WebSphere Application Server product offerings for supported operating systems.imcl.exe install offering_ID_offering_version,optional_feature_ID -repositories source_repository -installationDirectory offering_installation_location -secureStorageFile storage_file -masterPasswordFile master_password_file -acceptLicense
Tips:- The offering_version, which optionally can be attached to the offering ID
with an underscore, is a specific version of the offering to install
(8.5.5.20110503_0200 for example).
- If offering_version is not specified, the latest version of the offering and all interim fixes for that version are installed.
- If offering_version is specified, the specified version of the offering and no interim fixes for that version are installed.
The offering version can be found attached to the end of the offering ID with an underscore when you run the following command against the repository:imcl listAvailablePackages -repositories source_repository
- You can also specify none, recommended or all
with the -installFixes argument to indicate which interim fixes you want installed
with the offering.
- If the offering version is not specified, the -installFixes option defaults to all.
- If the offering version is specified, the -installFixes option defaults to none.
- You can add a list of features that are separated by commas.
You can specify additional features to install from the Liberty Repository. For a list of Liberty Repository assets, see the downloads page on WASdev.net.
Note: To install Liberty Repository assets, you must have access to the internet, and you must have IBM Installation Manager Version 1.6.2 or later.If you want to install additional features, specify the following properties in the command line. Note that the feature short names, such as FeatureA, are separated by double commas:
For Version 8.5.5.5 and later, user.accept.license=true is not required.-properties user.feature=FeatureA,,FeatureB,,FeatureC,user.accept.license=true
Beginning with Version 8.5.5.4, the Extended Programming Models are available to download from the Liberty Repository as the extendedPackage-1.0 addon. This addon provides a rich set of programming models such as Web Services, JMS (including Message-Driven Beans), and MongoDB 2.0. To install the addon, specify the extendedPackage-1.0 addon on the user.addon option of the -properties parameter:
imcl install com.ibm.websphere.liberty.ND.v85 -properties user.accept.license=true,user.addon=extendedPackage-1.0 -installationDirectory D:\IBM\Liberty -acceptLicense -repositories D:\IBM\LibertyRepo -sharedResourcesDirectory D:\IBM\IMShared -showProgress
You can also install assets from instances of the Liberty Asset Repository Service or local directory-based repositories. For more information about these asset repositories, see Installing assets using Installation Manager. Add the repository on the -repositories parameter. The repositories are accessed in the order that they are specified. By default, the Liberty Repository is the last of the repositories that are accessed during installation. To disable access to the Liberty Repository, on the -properties parameter, set the user.useLibertyRepository option to false.
imcl install com.ibm.websphere.liberty.v85 -properties user.useLibertyRepository=false,user.addon=extendedPackage-1.0,user.feature=portlet-2.0 -installationDirectory D:\IBM\Liberty -acceptLicense -repositories D:\IBM\LibertyProductRepo,https://your_onprem_asset_repo_url,D:\IBM\LocalAssetRepo,D:\IBM\LocalAssetRepo2.zip -sharedResourcesDirectory D:\IBM\IMShared -showProgress
To learn more about the Liberty Repository and the assets it contains, see Liberty Repository.
Note: If you do not have the Extended Programming Model installed prior to updating to Version 8.5.5.4, you might encounter the following error during the update:
To resolve this problem, increase the number of files using the ulimit command; for example:java.io.IOException: Too many open files at java.io.File.createNewFile(File.java:894)
ulimit -n 8192
- The offering_version, which optionally can be attached to the offering ID
with an underscore, is a specific version of the offering to install
(8.5.5.20110503_0200 for example).
- List all installed packages to verify the installation:
./imcl listInstalledPackages -long
imcl.exe listInstalledPackages -long
- For the live service repositories, use the same URLs as those used for the generally available
product-offering repositories during installation. These URLs are based on the following pattern:
- Download the file that contains the fix pack from Fix Central, and use local updating.You can download a compressed file that contains the fix pack from Fix Central. Each compressed fix-pack file contains an Installation Manager repository for the fix pack and usually has a .zip extension. After downloading and extracting the fix-pack file, use Installation Manager to update WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core with the fix pack.
- To download the fix pack, perform the following actions:
- Go to Fix Central.
- Select WebSphere as the product group.
- Select WebSphere Application Server as the product.
- Select the installed version.
- Select your operating system as the platform, and click Continue.
- Select Browse for fixes, and click Continue.
- Select the fix pack that you want to download, and click Continue.
- Select your download options, and click Continue.
- Click I agree to agree to the terms and conditions.
- Click Download now to download the fix pack.
- Transfer the compressed file in binary format to the system on which it is installed.
- Extract the compressed repository files to a directory on your system.
- To install a fix pack from a downloaded file, perform the following actions:
- Log on to your system.
- Stop all servers and applications on the WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core installation that is being updated.
- Change to the Installation_Manager_binaries/eclipse/tools directory, where Installation_Manager_binaries is the installation root directory for the Installation Manager.
- Install the fix pack.
./imcl install offering_ID_offering_version,optional_feature_ID -installationDirectory offering_installation_location -repositories location_of_expanded_files -acceptLicense
imcl.exe install offering_ID_offering_version,optional_feature_ID -installationDirectory offering_installation_location -repositories location_of_expanded_files -acceptLicense
Tips:- The offering_ID is the offering ID that is listed in WebSphere Application Server product offerings for supported operating systems.
- The offering_version, which optionally can be attached to the offering ID
with an underscore, is a specific version of the offering to install
(8.5.5.20110503_0200 for example).
- If offering_version is not specified, the latest version of the offering and all interim fixes for that version are installed.
- If offering_version is specified, the specified version of the offering and no interim fixes for that version are installed.
The offering version can be found attached to the end of the offering ID with an underscore when you run the following command against the repository:imcl listAvailablePackages -repositories source_repository
- You can also specify none, recommended or all
with the -installFixes argument to indicate which interim fixes you want installed
with the offering.
- If the offering version is not specified, the -installFixes option defaults to all.
- If the offering version is specified, the -installFixes option defaults to none.
- You can add a list of features that are separated by commas.
- Optional: List all installed packages to verify the installation:
./imcl listInstalledPackages -long
imcl.exe listInstalledPackages -long
- To download the fix pack, perform the following actions:
- Access the live service repository that contains the fix pack, and use web-based updating.


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