Installing and setting up ADDI Extensions with ADDI installer

IBM® Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence for IBM Z® (IBM ADDI ) provides an ADDI installer with which you can install IBM Application Discovery for IBM Z (IBM AD) components and ADDI Extensions component.

Note: On the Linux platform, ADDI Extensions should be installed and configured by using a non-root user.
Complete the following steps to install and set up ADDI Extensions with ADDI installer:
  1. Download the ADDI installer and run the ADDI installer wizard.
  2. Follow the instructions in the wizard to install ADDI.
    1. On the Welcome page, click Next.

    2. Review the Licensing Agreements page. Then, select I accept the terms of this license agreement and click Next.

    3. On the Installation Path page, specify the installation path, and then click Next. The default installation path is C:\Program Files\IBM Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence.

      If the installation path that you specify does not exist, the target directory is created. Confirm the path, and click OK in the Message dialog box.

    4. On the Select Installation Components page, select the components that you want to install, and then click Next. The components that are not applicable for the current system cannot be selected.

      Note: For ADDI Extensions, you need to install at least the following components:
      • IBM Application Discovery Servers and Services
      • Authentication Server (DEX)
      • IBM Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence Extensions for your system (Windows, Linux or zLinux))
      To perform Static Analysis or Business Rule Discovery, you also need to install additional corresponding AD components, such as IBM Application Discovery Batch Server and IBM AD Web Services. For more information about the relationship among different components, see IBM AD High-Level Architecture Overview.
      Note: Make sure that the IBM Application Discovery Batch Server is installed on the same machine as the ADDI Extensions component.
    5. Click Next on the Information page.

    6. On the IBM Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence Extensions Installation Path page, specify the installation path, and then click Next.

      If the installation path that you specify does not exist, the target directory will be created. Confirm the path, and click OK in the Message dialog box.

      Note: The default installation path is C:\Program Files\IBM Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence\IBM Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence Extensions\adi611.
    7. On the User Data page, clear the Opening IBM Application Discovery Configuration Wizard checkbox.

    8. Click Next on the Installation page when the installation progress is finished.

    9. On the Setup Shortcuts page, select the shortcuts that you want to create, and then click Next.

    10. Click Done on the Installation Finished page.

  3. Create DB2® database as described in Creating the database.
  4. Configure the dex.yaml file as described in Configuring the parameters in the dex.yaml file.
    Notes:
    • Make sure the fully qualified hostname that is configured for Dex Authentication Service issuer url is same as what is configured for ADDI Extensions server base url.
    • When you configure addi-liberty staticClients in the dex.yaml file, make sure the -id attribute has no spaces at the beginning of the line. For more information, see Configuring the parameters in the dex.yaml file.
  5. Start Authentication Server (DEX) as described in Starting the Authentication Server (DEX).
  6. Specify the configuration properties as described in Configuring ADDI Extensions Install Configuration Page.
  7. Perform adi-setup as described in Running the adi-setup script.
  8. Update the ADDI Extensions server.xml as described in Updating server.xml for communication between ADDI Extensions server and Authentication Server (DEX).
  9. Start ADDI Extensions server as described in Starting up the server.