Installing the product with the GUI

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 WebSphere Application Server detailed system requirements.

If you have not installed or configured IBM Installation Manager, refer to Setting up IBM Installation Manager.

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

  1. Log in as a user root or an administrator, and start Installation Manager.
  2. Click Install.

    If you are prompted to authenticate, use the IBM ID and password that you used to register on the program web site. Installation Manager will search its defined repositories for available packages.

  3. Select IBM Websphere Edge Components: Load Balancer for IPv4 and IPv6 and the most recent version number.
    Avoid trouble Avoid trouble: If you already installed the product using Installation Manager, Installation Manager displays a message that you are not allowed to install more than one instance in a system.gotcha
  4. Click Next.
    Avoid trouble 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 Load Balancer if it was installed without Installation Manager if you have installed earlier versions using installers other than IBM Installation Manager.gotcha
  5. Accept the terms in the license agreements, and click Next.
  6. Review the installation location.

    The Installation Location panel appears. This panel also displays the shared resources directory and disk-space information.

    • [AIX][HP-UX][Linux][Solaris]You are not allowed to change the default installation location. The folder for the installation location on the system should be empty before you proceed.
    • [Windows]Specify the installation root directory for the product binary files.
      Avoid trouble Avoid trouble: Be aware of the following restrictions:
      • You cannot continue if you delete the default target location and leave any installation-directory fields empty.
      • Do not use symbolic links as the destination directory.
      • Do not use a semicolon in the directory name.
      • The maximum path length on the Windows 2000, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 operating systems is 60 characters.
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  7. Click Next.
  8. Select the languages for which translated content should be installed, and click Next.

    English is always selected.

  9. 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
    The Metric Server component runs as a daemon on a load-balanced server. Metric Server:
    • Provides information about system loads to the Load Balancer components
    • Reports on the health of the servers
    Content Based Routing
    Content Based Routing proxies requests to specific servers depending on the content of the request for HTTP and SSL traffic.
    Site Selector
    Site Selector works with a name server to load balance among a group of servers.
    Tip: You can run the Installation Manager later to modify this installation and add or remove features.
  10. [AIX][Linux][Solaris][Windows]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 product or the 64-bit version and click Next.

    This panel displays only if you are using a 64-bit operating system.

  11. Review the summary information, and click Install.
    Review the results:
    • If the installation is successful, the program displays 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.
  12. Click Finish.
  13. Close Installation Manager.

    Click File > Exit.

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 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 commands.gotcha

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