Installing IBM Process Federation Server silently by using the command line

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You can use the command line to install IBM® Process Federation Server silently. With this installation method, you need only one command to install the product.

Before you begin

If you do not have the prerequisite base products that are necessary for Process Federation Server installation, you must install them as part of the silent installation. The following base products are required:

IBM Installation Manager. If you are installing Process Federation Server in group mode, you must use an instance of Installation Manager that is installed in group mode. For more information, see the Installation Manager IBM Docs topic Group mode roadmaps and silent installation .
WebSphere® Application Server Liberty Network Deployment.
IBM SDK Java™ Technology Edition, Version 8

About this task

During the silent installation, the following tasks are performed:

Optional: Installation Manager is installed or updated to the appropriate level.
The required base products and Process Federation Server are installed.

Only one Installation Manager is required to install multiple instances of Business Automation Workflow, IBM BPM, and Process Federation Server.

Procedure

Read and accept the license terms before you install the product.
Adding -acceptLicense to the command line means that you accept all licenses.

Run the following command:

extract_directory\IM64\tools\imcl install list_of_package_IDs 
    -acceptLicense -installationDirectory location 
    -repositories repository 
    -showVerboseProgress -log log_name.log

extract_directory/IM64/tools/imcl install list_of_package_IDs 
    -acceptLicense -installationDirectory location 
    -repositories repository
    -showVerboseProgress -log log_name.log

Note: If you already have 32-bit Installation Manager installed, you can run the command from the following directory:

extract_directory\IM\tools
extract_directory/IM/tools

Where:

list_of_package_IDs is a list of the IDs for the products and features that you want to install. You must include the required features. The syntax is package_ID,feature,feature. Separate multiple products by using spaces.

Table 1. Package IDs
Product	Package ID	Feature and description
IBM Process Federation Server	com.ibm.bpm.pfs.v85	Select the feature that matches the license for the Business Automation Workflow part that you purchased. Important: Select only one feature. ProcessFederationServerPFS: IBM Business Automation Workflow Server Production license ProcessFederationServerPFS.NonProduction: IBM Business Automation Workflow Server Non-Production license
WebSphere Application Server Liberty Network Deployment	com.ibm.websphere.liberty.ND.v85	Draft comment: Steve: you've specifically called out that liberty is requires...does that mean everything else is optional? liberty: Required. WebSphere Application Server Liberty core content. `embeddablecontainer`: Embeddable EJB container. Important: Do not include `embeddablecontainer` for V18.0.0.1 or later.
IBM Installation Manager	com.ibm.cic.agent	agent_core: Installation Manager core content. agent_jre: Installation Manager Java Runtime Environment (JRE)
IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition, Version 8	com.ibm.java.jdk.v8	com.ibm.sdk.8: Required. IBM SDK Java Technology Edition core content.

location is the path to the directory where you want to install the products. To install into an existing supported instance of WebSphere Application Server Liberty Network Deployment, specify its directory.
Restriction: Ensure that the directory names in the path contain only the following characters:
0-9 A-Z a-z (space) & ( ) + - . _
repository is the path to the repository where you extracted the files:
```
extract_directory\repository\repos_64bit
```
```
extract_directory/repository/repos_64bit
```
For more than one repository, separate the repository locations with commas.
log_ name is the name of the log file that records messages and results.

Results

Installation Manager installs the list of products and creates a log file in the directory that you specified. The log file is empty if there are no errors or warnings.

Example

Installs IBM Process Federation Server, WebSphere Application Server, Liberty Network Deployment, and IBM SDK Java Technology Edition Version 8.0 for Liberty on Linux®.

imcl install com.ibm.bpm.pfs.v85,ProcessFederationServerPFS 
com.ibm.websphere.liberty.ND.v85,liberty com.ibm.java.jdk.v8 -acceptLicense -
installationDirectory /usr/IBM/PFS -repositories /usr/tmp/BPM/repository  -
showVerboseProgress -log silentinstall.log

What to do next

Create a process federation server. See Creating a process federation server.
Create the Process Federation Server database. See Creating the Process Federation Server database (deprecated).