You can install the IBM® Integration Designer product
package in silent installation mode. When you install
in silent mode, the user interface is not available. Instead, you
run a command to use a response file that installs the product.
Before you begin
Before you install
IBM Integration Designer,
review the system requirements for the product.
Operating system
and software prerequisite levels are particularly important. Although
the installation process automatically checks for prerequisite operating
system patches, review the system requirements if you have not already
done so. The system requirements link lists all supported operating
systems and the operating system fixes and patches that you must install
to have a compliant operating system. It also lists the required levels
of all prerequisite software.
Important: If you are installing IBM Integration Designer with
its test environment as a non-administrative or non-root user and
you intend to install the test environment, you must install DB2 before
you begin the product installation. The DB2 database must be locally
installed.
About this task
If you do not have the prerequisite
base products necessary for
IBM Integration Designer installation,
you must install them as part of the silent installation. The required
base products are:
- Installation Manager
- WebSphere® Application
Server Network
Deployment (if you are installing the test environment)
The silent installation performs the following tasks:
- Installs Installation Manager if it is not already installed or
updates it to the appropriate level if it is installed.
- Installs the required base products and IBM Integration Designer.
Procedure
To silently install IBM Integration Designer,
complete the following steps:
- Read and accept the license terms before
installing. Adding -acceptLicense to the command
line means that you accept all licenses.
- Create the response file that will install the required
base products and IBM Integration Designer. Copy a sample response file, suitable
for your operating system and user access level, from one of the following
directories:
- To install both IBM Integration Designer and
the test environment: extract_directory/disk1/responsefiles/iid_testenv/
- To install IBM Integration Designer alone: extract_directory/disk1/responsefiles/iid/
Alternatively, you can create a response file by recording your
actions in Installation Manager. When you record a response file,
the selections that you make in Installation Manager are stored in
an XML file. When you run Installation Manager in silent mode, Installation
Manager uses the data in the XML response file to perform the installation.
- Review the file and its comments,
and modify the parameters as needed for your environment. The
default values provided in the sample response files will perform
a basic installation.
In particular, review the following parameters
and values:
- If you are installing as a non-Administrator or non-root user,
check that all location variables point to directories that your user
ID has permissions for.
- Repository locations. If your response file is not stored in the extract_directory/responsefiles/BusMon directory,
update the default relative paths of the repository locations. The
repository locations can be local or remote.
- Installation location of Installation Manager. If necessary,
update the location where Installation Manager is already
installed or will be installed.
- Installation location of IBM Integration Designer. If
necessary, update the location where a supported instance of WebSphere Application
Server Network Deployment is already
installed or will be installed. IBM Integration Designer, and
optionally, IBM Cognos® Business Intelligence and DB2® Express®, will also be installed into this
location.
Tip: - Ensure that your installation path does not contain parentheses.
- If you are installing DB2 Express,
your installation path cannot contain National Language Strings (NLS).
- Ensure that your installation path does
not contain spaces.
- Keep the installation path as short as possible.
Otherwise, you might run into problems later when the paths of other
components, when added to this path, exceed the 255-character path
limit.
- Eclipse location (eclipseLocation). If you
want to install into an existing supported instance of WebSphere Application
Server Network Deployment, specify
its Eclipse location directory.
- WebSphere Application
Server Network Deployment features.
Accept the default list of features.
- IBM Integration Designer features.
Specify whether you want to install the product for production use,
or for development, test, or staging (non-production) use.
- If you are installing DB2 Express, follow
the instructions in the response file for providing the necessary
user IDs and passwords. Use the instructions in step 1 for generating
the encrypted passwords to include.
- Run the following command:
Important: If you are running Windows, start your
command prompt by right-clicking and selecting Run as administrator.
To install
IBM Integration Designer and the test
environment:
extract_directory\disk1\IM_win64\installc.exe -acceptLicense input
..\responsefiles\response_file_name.xml -log silent.log
Note: If
you already have 32-bit Installation Manager installed, then you can run the command from the
extract_directory\IM_win32\tools directory.
extract_directory/disk1/IM_linux64/installc -acceptLicense input
../responsefiles/response_file_name.xml -log silent.log
Note: If
you already have 32-bit Installation Manager installed, then you can run the command from the
extract_directory\IM_linux\tools directory.
To install
IBM Integration Designer
alone:
extract_directory\disk1\IM_win64\installc -acceptLicense input
..\responsefiles\response_file_name.xml -log silent.log
extract_directory/disk1/IM_linux/installc -acceptLicense input
../responsefiles/response_file_name.xml -log silent.log
Results
Installation Manager installs any required prerequisites and
IBM Integration Designer and
writes a log file to the directory you specified.
Attention: When
you install the IBM Integration Designer and the UTE on Linux platform
under the /home or /opt directories
you are likely to receive a warning output or log message indicating
that there has been an error during the installation of DB2 Express.
The error message will read as follows:Warnings were encountered
during installation of DB2 Express.See DB2 Express installation log
file /opt/IBM/BPM8.5/logs/db2install.log for more information. This
is an expected behavior on Linux platform, and does not indicate installation
failure. Proceed with the rest of the installation to complete it.
What to do next
After you have installed the product, create the deployment
test environment and profile using the
BPMconfig command.