Special procedures are required if you choose to run centralized
installation manager (CIM) on IBM® i operating systems.
Since IBM WebSphere® Installation Factory is
not supported on IBM i operating
system, you must create the repository on a Windows operating system
and then transfer the repository to the IBM i operating system.
About this task
Use the Installation
Factory Version 7.0.0.15 or later to create a repository on a Windows
system, and then transfer the packages to the repository that resides
on the IBM i system.
Use
the following procedure to add the installation packages into the
CIM repository on the IBM i system
using the Windows operating system.
Procedure
- Install WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment
Version 8.5 onto the IBM i operating
system.
- Install the Installation Factory onto the Windows operating
system.
- Insert the WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment
Version 7.0 installation disk into the drive of the Windows system,
or create a customized installation package (CIP) with the Installation
Factory on the Windows system.
- Create a repository locally on the Windows operating system
with the Installation Factory.
- Change the directory to the repository path.
Run
the command zip -r cimrepos.zip * to create a compressed
file including all the directories in the repository.
You
can also selectively include only the directories you want. If you
are including any CIP images, you need to also include the corresponding
CIP descriptors that are in the descriptors directory. The CIP descriptor
is an XML file whose name contains the CIP directory name. For example,
if the CIP directory name is com.ibm.torolab.ND70_AIX_PPC32_1.0.0.0
,
then the descriptor name is something like InstallPackageND70X_com.ibm.torolab.ND70_AIX_PPC32_1.0.0.0.xml
.
- Log onto the IBM i system.
The centralized installation manager repository location is
stored in
<WAS_HOME>/properties/cimgr.props.
The default value is
"${WAS_INSTALL_ROOT}/cimrepos".
The default location is
"/QIBM/ProdData/WebSphere/AppServer/cimrepos".
The user that runs WebSphere Application Server must have write permission
to create the
cimrepos directory and its contents.
Otherwise, errors can occur when CIM downloads new descriptors or
runs the Update Installer. You might see an error in the SystemOut.log
that is similar to the following error:
XCIM0903E: Cannot download file 7.0.0.13-WS-UPDI-i5OsPPC.zip.part to /QIBM/ProdData/WebSphere/AppServer/cimrepos/UPDI70.
Reason: /QIBM/ProdData/WebSphere/AppServer/cimrepos/UPDI70/7.0.0.13-WS-UPDI-i5OsPPC.zip.part (A file or directory in the path name does not exist.)
If
the user that runs WebSphere Application Server does not have write
permission to the
<WAS_HOME> directory,
you can relocate the repository location to a directory other than
<WAS_HOME> by
modifying the value in
cimgr.props.
- Create the repository directory if it is not already created.
- Transfer cimrepos.zip from the Windows system to the repository
directory on the IBM i system.
Extract the contents of the cimrepos.zip file onto the repository
directory and optionally delete the original compressed file.
Results
You have added the installation packages into the CIM repository
on the IBM i system.
Instead of creating the repository on the disk drive of the
Windows system and transferring the file, alternatively, you can map
the IBM i file system
of the repository onto the Windows system and use it for populating
the installation packages. Using this alternative method eliminates
transferring the files to the IBM i system.
What to do next
Use the centralized installation manager to install the
components to the nodes and begin managing your environments. In the
administrative console, click .