Running a silent installation in Windows

You can run a silent installation after you create a configuration file, also known as a response file.

About this task

If you are installing B2B Advanced Communications and Sterling B2B Integrator together on one server that has less than 16 GB of random access memory (RAM), ensure that you start each application separately.

Procedure

  1. Create a response file. For more information about creating a response file, see Configuring a silent installation file in Windows.
  2. To accept the license and create a log file, type the following commands: 
    
C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\Installation Manager\eclipse\tools>imcl.exe input 
C:\response_file.xml -acceptLicense -log 
C:\[Installation directory]\install_log.xml
  3. Open the [Installation directory]\Members\bin directory.
  4. To start the node, type one of the following commands:
    • If you are not starting the members as Windows services, type execute member start all.
    • If you are starting the members as Windows services, type execute member start_service all.
  5. Optional: To configure the storage system for an informational member, type execute storage -provision -a.

    For more information about provisioning storage, see Provisioning storage from the command line.

  6. Access the installation at https://[Installation Hostname or IP address]:[Informational port number]/advcomm.
  7. Log in to the installation with the default account that you were assigned. The two default accounts are System Administrator, sysadmin, and Master Account Administrator, maccountadmin. For more information about default account credentials, see Configuring default account credentials.

What to do next

You can now configure the rest of B2B Advanced Communications, including organizations, user credentials, and exchange profiles.