IBM® Installation
Manager is a program for installing, updating, and modifying packages.
It helps you to manage the IBM applications, or packages, that it installs on your computer. Installation
Manager also helps you to keep track of what you have installed, determine
what is available for you to install, and to organize installation
directories.
Installation Manager provides features that help you keep packages
up to date, modify packages, manage the licenses for your packages,
and uninstall packages.
Installation Manager includes six wizards that make it easy to
maintain packages:
- The Install wizard walks you through the
installation process. You can install a package by simply accepting
the defaults or you can modify the default settings to create a custom
installation. Before you install, you get a complete summary of your
selections throughout the wizard. Using the wizard you can install
one or more packages at one time.
- The Update wizard searches for available
updates to packages that you have installed. An update might be a
released fix, a new feature, or a new version of the product. Details
of the contents of the update are provided in the wizard. You can
choose whether to apply an update. The Update wizard searches connected repositories for updates. If you are not
connected to the Internet, you may not see newly available updates
for your installed products. To apply an update to a computer that
is not connected to the Internet, you must download the update and
extract it to a local repository.
- The Modify wizard helps you modify certain
elements of a package that you have already installed. During the
first installation of the package, you select the features that you
want to install. Later, if you require other features, you can use
the modify packages wizard to add them to your package. You can also
remove features and add or remove languages.
- The Manage Licenses wizard helps you set
up the licenses for your packages. Use this wizard to change your
trial license to a full license, to set up your servers for floating
licenses, and to select which type of license to use for each package. Rational® Performance Tester requires runtime floating license keys to run tests with
multiple virtual users and to use product extensions such as protocols.
Runtime floating license keys are not managed using IBM Installation Manager. Use the License Key Administrator program, installed
with the Rational License
Server, to manage runtime floating license keys.
- The Roll Back wizard helps you to revert
to a previous version of a package.
- The Uninstall wizard removes a package from
your computer. You can uninstall more than one package at a time.