Installing silently using the command line

You can install IBM® Business Process Manager 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 Process Manager Advanced 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 Process Manager 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 information center 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.

If you are installing from downloaded images from Passport Advantage, ensure that you downloaded both required disk images for your operating system. 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. Overwrite directories, if prompted.

About this task

During the silent installation, the following tasks are peformed:

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

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

Procedure

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 32-bit Installation Manager installed, you can run the command from the extract_directory/IM/tools directory.
Read and accept the license terms before installing. 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 logName.log

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, with multiple products separated by spaces.

Table 1. Package IDs
Product	Package ID	Feature and Description
IBM BPM Advanced	com.ibm.bpm.ADV.v85	AdvancedProcessCenter AdvancedProcessServer.NonProduction - Test, staging, or development use AdvancedProcessServer.Production - Production use Case.Management - Optional. Basic case management capabilities. Requires a license and one of the other features to be also installed.
WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment	com.ibm.websphere.ND.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.
Installation Manager	com.ibm.cic.agent	agent_core: Installation Manager core content. agent_jre: Installation Manager Java Runtime Environment (JRE).
IBM WebSphere SDK Java Technology Edition 7	com.ibm.websphere.IBMJAVA.v70	Java™ TE 6 is installed with WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, but if you install Java TE 7, it will be used instead. If you install Java TE 7 but find that you still need to use Java 6, you can switch before you create profiles by using the managesdk command. For more information, see Switching the edition of Java used in IBM BPM.

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:
```
extract_directory/repos_64bit
```
For more than one repository, separate the repository locations with commas.
key=value is a list of the keys and values 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.
Note: This table is applicable only when you install DB2 Express.

Table 2. Keys
Key Description

user.db2.port Port for the DB2 database. The default value is 50000.
logName is the name of the log file to record 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.

Table 2. Keys
Key	Description
user.db2.port	Port for the DB2 database. The default value is 50000.

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 Process Manager Advanced and WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment on Solaris.

Tip: If you copy the example, make sure there are no line breaks.

imcl install com.ibm.bpm.ADV.v85,AdvancedProcessCenter com.ibm.websphere.ND.v85,core.feature,ejbdeploy,thinclient,embeddablecontainer,samples,com.ibm.sdk.6_64bit -acceptLicense -installationDirectory /opt/IBM/BPM85 -repositories /usr/tmp/BPM/repository/repos_64bit -showVerboseProgress -log silentinstall.log

The following example installs IBM Business Process Manager Advanced, a cumulative fix from another directory, and WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment on Solaris.

Tip: If you copy the example, make sure there are no line breaks.

imcl install com.ibm.bpm.ADV.v85,AdvancedProcessCenter com.ibm.websphere.ND.v85,core.feature,ejbdeploy,thinclient,embeddablecontainer,samples,com.ibm.sdk.6_64bit -acceptLicense -installationDirectory /opt/IBM/BPM85 -repositories /usr/tmp/BPM/repository/repos_64bit,/usr/tmp/BPMCF -showVerboseProgress -log silentinstall.log

What to do next

After you install IBM BPM, you must configure the product by creating profiles, setting up database tables, and configuring the network deployment environment. To do these configuration tasks in one step, use the BPMConfig command. Alternatively, you can do each configuration step separately using the BPMConfig command and the Deployment Environment wizard.

Important: If you are migrating business data and applications from a previous version, use the configuration instructions in the Migrating to IBM Business Process Manager section.