The IBM® Java™ 7 installation package is provided as an .rpm package
file located on the system where the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server component
is installed. Support for the Tivoli® Enterprise
Portal browser client on Linux has
been tested using the Mozilla Firefox browser, releases 3.6 through
the most recent Extended Support Release at the 32-bit and 64-bit
level.
About this task
The upgrade to IBM Java 7 is triggered when you first
launch the V6.3 Tivoli Enterprise
Portal browser client after a pristine installation. The Java upgrade requirement is automatically detected
and the graphic image and download link in are displayed in your browser
page.
Figure 1. Java Plug-in
is not installed
Complete the following steps to install IBM Java 7
for use with the Tivoli Enterprise
Portal browser and Web Start clients in a Linux environment:
Procedure
- Click the hyperlink Click Here to Begin.
- A download prompt might be displayed. Click OK (or
similarly labelled instruction) to download and process the package.
Figure 2. Download .rpm package file
- Depending on the authority level associated with your user
credentials, you might be prompted for Administrative privileges before
the installation of IBM Java 7 can continue. If required,
provide your root password when prompted.
- A final prompt to proceed with the installation of the IBM Java 7
package might be displayed. Click Apply (or similarly labelled instruction)
to continue.
Figure 3. IBM Java 7 installing packages
- After the IBM Java 7 package has been successfully
installed, you might receive a completion message. Click OK to
continue.
Figure 4. IBM Java 7 successfully installed
- After the package manager has installed
the IBM Java 7 package, you must register the Java plug-in with your Firefox browser.
To register the Java plug-in,
you must symbolically link it to the plug-in directory associated
with your browser.
Change your working directory to
the Firefox plug-ins directory (which can differ depending on your Linux distribution and whether
you are using the 32 bit or 64 bit version of Firefox):
- For the 32 bit version of Firefox: cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
- For the 64 bit version of Firefox: cd /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/
- Now create a symbolic link to the
plug-in using the following command:
- For the 32 bit Java plug-in
for IBM Java 7: ln -s /opt/ibm/java-i386-70/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so
.
- For the 64 bit Java plug-in
for IBM Java 7: ln -s /opt/ibm/java-x86_64-70/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so
.
- After successful installation of Java and registration of the Java plug-in, you can return to
the window or tab in your browser containing the Tivoli Enterprise Portal client URL, and press
CTRL+F5 to launch the client applet. Alternatively, you can click
in the Address field of the browser and press the Enter key. If the
client applet still fails to load, recycle the browser and then re-enter
the Tivoli Enterprise Portal
client URL. The applet should load successfully.