Submitting centralized installation manager jobs (deprecated)

In a flexible management environment, you can submit jobs to install Installation Manager instances, update Installation Manager with a repository (not supported on z/OS® targets), manage Installation Manager offerings, and install WebSphere® Application Server products.

Before you begin

Deprecated feature: The job manager and centralized installation manager (CIM) are deprecated. Instead of job manager or CIM, use Urban Code Deploy to install the product, to deploy applications, and to manage remote hosts. To manage WebSphere Application Server, you also can use swinging profiles. See Swinging profiles between product installations.

Supported configurations: This topic applies to CIM for WebSphere Application Server Version 8.0 and later.

IBM® Installation Manager Version 1.8.5 or later is required to install the product.

CIM functions are accessed through the job manager. Using the job manager, you can perform the following functions:

Install, update, and uninstall WebSphere Application Server offerings on remote machines
Install, update, and uninstall IBM Installation Manager on remote machines.
Collect, distribute, and delete files on remote hosts
Run scripts on remote hosts

Start the job manager and make a remote host a target of the job manager. In the job manager console or deployment manager console, click Jobs > Targets > New Host and complete the fields on the New targets page.

A remote host typically is a different computer than the one on which the job manager is installed.

To submit jobs, your ID at the job manager must be authorized for the administrator role or the operator role. When you submit a job, you can specify a user name and password for authentication and authorization at the target or targets. When you submit a job to multiple targets, the user name and password or the credentials for the submitter must be applicable to all of the job targets.

[IBM i] The user profile must have *JOBCTL authorization in order to use CIM on IBM i targets.

About this task

You can use the Installation Manager to install and manage installations on remote hosts. Using the job manager, you can run jobs that create and update Installation Manager instances and install the product on remote hosts.

The topics in this section describe how to use the Installation Manager by running jobs in the job manager console or the deployment manager console. Instead of using a console, you can run wsadmin commands in the AdministrativeJobs command group. See the Administrative job types topic.

Procedure

Run the install Installation Manager job.
Run the update Installation Manager job.
Run the uninstall Installation Manager job.
Run the install SSH public key job.
Avoid trouble: If your remote target is running a Tectia SSH server and it does not support the use of SCP file transfer protocol, some CIM jobs may fail during file transfer. To avoid this problem, you can force the file transfer to use SFTP instead of SCP. To use the SFTP mode, set the java system property "com.ibm.ws.admin.cim.rxa.force.sftp" to "true." If this property is not set, or set to "false", then the file transfer default is SCP. For CIM Version 7.0 and 8.0, you can use the following wsadmin command to set the java property:
```
AdminTask.setJVMSystemProperties('[-propertyName com.ibm.ws.admin.cim.rxa.force.sftp 
-propertyValue true]') AdminConfig.save()
```
You must then restart the server.
Using CIM Version 8.0, you can also specify to use SFTP for each target individually. When registering the target host, set the host property "com.ibm.ws.admin.cim.rxa.force.sftp" to "true." Use the following wsadmin command:
```
AdminTask.registerHost('[-host thinkblue -hostProps [ [com.ibm.ws.admin.cim.rxa.force.sftp true]
[osType os_type] [password password] [saveSecurity true] [username user_name] ]]')
```
The host property value takes precedence.

What to do next

On the Job status page, click the ID of the job and view the job status. If the job is not successful, view any error messages that result from running the job, correct the error condition, and submit the job again.

To review the Installation Manager license, perform the following steps:

If you are using the graphical user interface (GUI), run the following command and follow the instructions:
- install
- install.exe
If you are using the command line, run the following command and follow the instructions:
- installc -c
- installc.exe -c