Extracting the installation media and scripts

Provide the installation media and scripts to each server that hosts an IBM® Intelligent Operations Center component.

Before you begin

Before you start installing IBM Intelligent Operations Center, review the latest installation updates to ensure that you have the most recent version of the installer. See the technote at IBM Intelligent Operations Center V5.2 installation updates.

About this task

The installation media is provided as five ISO images. Use the following procedure to extract the installation media and scripts to an /installmedia directory on the analytics server. In a high availability environment, extract the installation media and scripts to an /installmedia directory on the analytics server 1. Alternatively, you can extract the ISO images files to an NFS server.

After all of the ISO image files have been extracted, create an NFS export to share the /installmedia directory with all the servers that host an IBM Intelligent Operations Center component.

Procedure

Enter the following commands in a terminal window as the root user to create directories either on the analytics server, or on analytics server 1 in a high availability environment, or on an NFS server:
```
mkdir /solution_iso_images
mkdir /solutionmedia
mkdir /installmedia
```
Copy the ISO image files into the /solution_iso_images directory.

Enter the following commands, substituting the name of each .iso file for the filename_num variables, to extract the contents of each of the ISO image files to the /installmedia directory:

cd /solution_iso_images
mount -o loop filename_num1.iso /solutionmedia
cp -r /solutionmedia/* /installmedia/
umount /solutionmedia
mount -o loop filename_num2.iso /solutionmedia
cp -r /solutionmedia/* /installmedia/
umount /solutionmedia
mount -o loop filename_num3.iso /solutionmedia
cp -r /solutionmedia/* /installmedia/
umount /solutionmedia
mount -o loop filename_num4.iso /solutionmedia
cp -r /solutionmedia/* /installmedia/
umount /solutionmedia
mount -o loop filename_num5.iso /solutionmedia
cp -r /solutionmedia/* /installmedia/
umount /solutionmedia
rmdir /solutionmedia

On the analytics server, or on analytics server 1 in a high availability environment, or on the NFS server where you extracted the media, configure an NFS export:
1. Create the /etc/exports file if it does not exist.
2. Edit the /etc/exports file, and add the following line:
```
/installmedia/ *(ro,sync)
```
3. Start rpcbind and the NFS server:
  - For IBM Intelligent Operations Center V5.2.1, enter the following commands:
```
systemctl start rpcbind.service; systemctl start nfs.service
```
  - For IBM Intelligent Operations Center V5.2.0, enter the following commands:
```
service rpcbind start; service nfs start
```
4. Check the NFS server status:
  - For IBM Intelligent Operations Center V5.2.1, enter the following command:
```
systemctl status nfs.service
```
  - For IBM Intelligent Operations Center V5.2.0, enter the following command:
```
service nfs status
```
5. Enter the following command to verify that the mount is exported:
```
showmount -e localhost
```
On each of the servers that do not have the media extracted into /installmedia, create an NFS mount to the /installmedia directory:
1. Start the NFS server:
  - For IBM Intelligent Operations Center V5.2.1, enter the following command:
```
systemctl start nfs.service
```
  - For IBM Intelligent Operations Center V5.2.0, enter the following command:
```
service nfs start
```
2. Enter the following command to create the /installmedia directory:
```
mkdir /installmedia
```
  Note: If the /installmedia directory exists, ensure that the directory is empty. The directory must be empty for the mount command to work correctly.
3. Enter the following command to verify that the mount is available:
```
showmount -e analytics or NFS file server hostname
```
  A list of available mount points are listed. If the /installmedia directory is correctly mounted, it is displayed as an option. The following example shows the command and the resulting output:
```
#showmount -e ioc51anal
Export list for ioc51anal:
/installmedia *
```
4. Enter the following command to mount the /installmedia share locally on the server with an NFS mount tool:
```
mount -t nfs ioc51ana:/installmedia /installmedia
```
5. Repeat steps 5.a to 5.d on each of the servers that does not have the media extracted to the /installmedia directory.
On each of the servers, create an installation directory and copy the ioc_platform.tar.gz compressed installation file to the installation directory:
1. Open a terminal window and log on as the root user.
2. Enter the following command to create the base IBM Intelligent Operations Center installation directory:
```
mkdir -p /opt/IBM/
```
3. Enter the following command to copy the ioc_platform.tar.gz installation file from the /installmedia directory to the base IBM Intelligent Operations Center installation directory:
```
cp /installmedia/ioc_platform.tar.gz /opt/IBM/
```