Installing silently using the command line

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You can install IBM® Business Automation Workflow silently using the command line. With this method, you need to run only one command to perform the installation.

Before you begin

If you do not have the prerequisite base products necessary for IBM Business Automation Workflow installation, you must install them as part of the silent installation. The required base products are:

IBM Installation Manager. If you are installing IBM Business Automation Workflow in group mode, you must use an instance of IBM Installation Manager that is installed in group mode. For more information, see the Installation Manager documentation topic Administrator, nonadministrator, and group mode .
WebSphere® Application Server Network Deployment, including the ejbdeploy and thinclient features.

When you install the product, also install any available cumulative fixes or fix packs by adding the repository where you downloaded the fix. Additionally, install security fixes as they become available.

If you are installing from downloaded images from Passport Advantage®, ensure that you download all required images. For UNIX, you need to download both required disk images for your operating system. For Linux® systems on Intel, you need three disk images. For Linux systems other than Intel, you need two disk images. If you are installing from the DVD images, obtain the compressed files from the DVDs. In both cases, extract all of the files from the compressed files to the same location on your hard disk.

Note:

To extract files on AIX®, use the GNU tar program instead of the AIX tar program. The AIX tar program might truncate long file names, which can cause installation errors. To install the GNU tar program, see Use GNU tar to extract server installation images on AIX External link opens a new window or tab .

Restrictions:

Extract the installation files to a directory that does not contain spaces or special characters.

About this task

During the silent installation, the following tasks are performed:

Installation Manager is installed or updated to the appropriate level.
The required base products and IBM Business Automation Workflow are installed.

Only one IBM Installation Manager is required to install multiple instances of IBM Business Automation Workflow.

Note: Some examples mentioned in the procedure are specific to Db2®. However, this task applies to all database types.

Procedure

Install Installation Manager. Installation Manager is included in the Business Automation Workflow image. Alternatively, you can download it from Fix Central .
To install Installation Manager, use the ./installc command.

If you are installing from the images, you can find the command in installation_packages/IM or installation_packages/IM64, where installation_packages is the folder where you extracted the images to.
Note: If Installation Manager is already installed on your machine, make sure that its version is at a level that is supported by Business Automation Workflow. The supported levels are listed in the Software Product Compatibility Reports for your version.
For more details about installing and using Installation Manager, see Installing and using Installation Manager .
Optional: Run the following command to generate encrypted passwords using IBM Installation Manager to securely connect to Db2 and the administrative console.
```
extract_directory/IM64/tools/imutilsc -silent -nosplash encryptString password_to_encrypt
```
Note: If you already have Installation Manager installed, run the command from the IM_installation_directory/eclipse/tools directory.
Read and accept the license terms before installing. Adding -acceptLicense to the command line means that you accept all licenses.

Use the table in this step to compose the command line to install the product.

extract_directory/IM64/tools/imcl install list_of_package_IDs -acceptLicense -installationDirectory location -repositories repository -properties key=value,key=value -showVerboseProgress -log logName.log

Note: If you already have Installation Manager installed, run the command from the IM_installation_directory/eclipse/tools directory.

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 packageID,feature,feature. Separate multiple products by using spaces.

Tip: Names of the installable features provided by a package might differ, depending on your platform. To determine the features that you can install for your platform, run the imcl listAvailablePackages command, for example:

./IM64/tools/imcl listAvailablePackages -features -long -repositories
./repository

Table 1. Package IDs
Product	Package ID	Feature and Description
IBM Business Automation Workflow Enterprise	com.ibm.bpm.ADV.v85	WorkflowEnterprise.NonProduction - Test, staging, or development use WorkflowEnterprise.Production - Production use Important: Do not mix production and non-production servers in the same cell.
IBM Business Automation Workflow Express	com.ibm.bpm.EXP.v85	WorkflowExpress.NonProduction - Test, staging, or development use WorkflowExpress.Production - Production use Important: Do not mix production and non-production servers in the same cell.
IBM Business Automation Workflow Enterprise Service Bus	com.ibm.bpm.ESB.v85	EnterpriseServiceBus.NonProduction - Test, staging, or development use EnterpriseServiceBus.Production - Production use Important: Do not mix production and non-production servers in the same cell.
WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment	com.ibm.websphere.ND.v85 On Linux on Power® LE: com.ibm.websphere.ND.le.v85	core.feature: Required. WebSphere Application Server core content. ejbdeploy: Required. Pre-Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 3.0 modules. thinclient: Required. Stand-alone thin clients and resource adapters. embeddablecontainer: Embeddable EJB container. samples: Sample applications feature. com.ibm.sdk.6_64bit: 64-bit SDK. com.ibm.sdk.71_64bit: 64-bit SDK on Linux on Power LE.
Installation Manager	com.ibm.cic.agent	agent_core: Installation Manager core content. agent_jre: Installation Manager Java™ Runtime Environment (JRE).
Db2 for Linux on Intel systems	com.ibm.ws.DB2EXP.linuxia64	Db2 must match the operating system.

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 Network Deployment, specify its directory.
repository is the path to the repository where you have extracted the files:
- For Intel platforms: extract_directory/repository/repos_64bit
- For Power or IBM z platforms: extract_directory/repository/
For more than one repository, separate the repository locations with commas.

key=value is a list of the keys and values that you want to pass to the installation, separated by commas. Do not put spaces between the commas. Create encrypted passwords using the IBM Installation Manager.

Important: You must include the user.wasjava=java8 property.

If you are installing Db2, you can include the following properties:

Table 2. Keys for AIX and Linux
Key	Description
user.db2.port	Port for the Db2 database. The default value is 50000.

Table 3. Keys for Linux only
Key	Description
user.db2.instance.username	Db2 instance user name
user.db2.instance.password	Encrypted password for the Db2 instance user name. For an encrypted password, use quotation marks. For example, `user.db2.instance.password="the_encrypted_password"`
user.db2.fenced.newuser	The value `true` is for a new user. The value `false` is for an existing user. If the value is `false`, the `user.db2.fenced.password` is not needed.
user.db2.fenced.username	Fenced user name. The fenced user is used to run user defined functions (UDFs) and stored procedures outside of the address space used by the Db2 database. The default user is `db2fenc1` and the default group is `db2fadm1`.
user.db2.fenced.password	Encrypted password for the fenced user name. For an encrypted password, use quotation marks. For example, `user.db2.fenced.password="the_encrypted_password"`
user.db2.das.newuser	The value `true` is for a new user. The value `false` is for an existing user. If the value is `false`, the `user.db2.das.password` is not needed.
user.db2.das.username	Db2 administration server (DAS) user name. The user ID for the Db2 administration server user is used to run the Db2 administration server on your system. The default user is `dasusr1` and the default group is `dasadm1`. This user ID is also used by the Db2 GUI tools to perform administration tasks against the local server database instances and databases.
user.db2.das.password	Encrypted password for the administration server user name. For an encrypted password, use quotation marks. For example, `user.db2.das.password="the_encrypted_password"`

logName is the name of the log file that records messages and results.

Running this command installs the product with the default features. To install specific features or make other changes, see the reference link for the command-line arguments for imcl.

Results

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

Example

The following example installs IBM Business Automation Workflow and WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment on AIX or Linux, and Db2 on Linux.