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By Joseph Amrith Raj

WebSphere Application Server v8

Primer

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WebSphere Application Server v8

Primer, part-1: IBM Installation Manager

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Table of Contents

What is IBM Installation Manager? .............................................................................................................. 4

Using Installation Manager ........................................................................................................................... 5

Installing and working with IBM Installation Manager ................................................................................. 6

Repositories ................................................................................................................................................ 13

About Author .............................................................................................................................................. 17

Connect With US ......................................................................................................................................... 18

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What is IBM Installation Manager?

IBM Installation Manager is an installation management tool that offers a number of time-

saving features. It helps keep track of what you are about to install, as well as what you have

already installed, and what is available for installation. It searches for updates, so that you

know that you are installing the latest version of a package. Installation Manager also provides

tools for managing licenses for the packages that it installs, and for updating and modifying

packages. It can also uninstall full packages, or roll back packages to previous versions.

Until WebSphere v6.1, IBM used ISMP for installation of all products. This involves downloading

the required binaries, license and then install ling it. Some of the issues with this approach are,

it involves lengthy downloads depending on the product binary size and you need to do the

same for the future updates and fixes.

From WebSphere v7 onwards, IBM changed to Installation Manager for all the installations,

updates, fixes etc. Installation manager is focused and made for an end user role. It can be used

for install/uninstall/update/modify/rollback and for license management also.

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Using Installation Manager

Install - Installation manager will connect to the repositories which you can specify and gets the selected

binaries. You can install multiple products at once. You can pause the downloads and resume them

later.

Update – using this option you can download the updates into the repository and install them or can

update the multiple products

Modify – This option lets you change add/remove the features after installation of a product.

Rollback – this options lets you to rollback to previous version while ensure the dependencies are met.

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Installing and working with IBM Installation Manager

1. Download the IBM Installation Manager from IBM support portal

2. Extract the Zip file and start the installer

3. You will be presented with the above screen, which shows what package you are about to

install. In this case it is Installation Manager v1.4.3. Click NEXT

4. Accept the license agreement.

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5. In this screen you can select the location where you want to install the “IBM Installation

Manager and click Next

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6. This screen shows you the summery of the options you’ve chosen to install “ IBM Installation

Manager”

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7. Upon success installation, you get the following screen

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8. Click on Restart Installation Manager to start the Installation Manager

9. After starting the Installation Manager, it wil prompt for credentials to log in to ‘IBM download

site.

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10. If you have the credentials for the Download site, provide them or Click ‘cancel’

11. In either case, the installation Manager home screen will be presented

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Repositories

12. If you had selected ‘cancel’ or want to add additional repositories from where Installation

Manager can download the product packages… click on Modify

13. Here, you can add/modify/remove the repositories. Click on Add Repository to add a new

location from your hard disk or online repositories like Passport Advantage etc..

14. In my case, I ‘ve already got WebSphere 8 Beta on my local hard disk. So I would like to add the

location of the binaries as a repository.

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15.

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16. Select the ‘repository’ file and open it to load the binaries into Installation Manager. Once

successfully imported, the new repository will be added to the available list.

17. As you can see in the above screenshot, the local repository is shown in Green [connected] and

others in Red [disconnected], as we didn’t connected to the IBM download site.

18. Now lick OK and you will be taken back to the Installation Manager ‘install’ screen.

19. Here you can see WebSphere 8 in the available installation packages.

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20. If you like to install WebSphere Application Server 8, click on install and proceed.

21. If you click ‘cancel’.. As you already imported WebSphere Application server in to the

installation manager or added WebSphere binaries location as the repository, the present

settings are saved and when you start the next time, these settings will be retrieved.

You can add multiple repositories from where the Installation Manager can get

the required product packages. You can also install multiple products at once. Use

the same method explained above to install different product packages.

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About Author

Joseph Amrith Raj is a technical consultant for multiple WebSphere products. He worked in

various product consulting and support teams including WebSphere Application Server,

WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Message Broker, Enterprise Service Bus and WebSphere Process

Server. He has 7 years of experience in administration, troubleshooting, consulting and he has

significant experience in architecture, strategy and leadership positions. He is IBM certified for

WAS, WMQ, WPS , SOA and Cloud Computing.

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