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 Standard 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.
If
you are installing from downloaded images from Passport Advantage,
ensure that you downloaded all required images (three disk images
for Linux systems on Intel; two disk images for other Linux systems).
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.
Restriction: Extract the installation files
to a directory that does not contain spaces or special characters.
The launchpad cannot be started from a directory path that contains
spaces or special characters.
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 Standard are installed.
Only one IBM Installation Manager is required to install multiple instances of IBM Business Process Manager.
Procedure
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 Standard, WebSphere Application
Server Network Deployment, and DB2 Express on Linux.
Tip: If
you copy the example, make sure there are no line
breaks.
imcl install com.ibm.bpm.STD.v85,StandardProcessCenter com.ibm.websphere.ND.v85,core.feature,ejbdeploy,thinclient,embeddablecontainer,samples,com.ibm.sdk.6_64bit com.ibm.ws.DB2EXP.linuxia64 -acceptLicense -installationDirectory /opt/IBM/BPM85 -repositories /usr/tmp/BPM/repository/repos_64bit -properties user.db2.instance.username=bpmadmin,user.db2.instance.password="Vvrs88V/a9BUdxwodz0nUg==" -showVerboseProgress -log silentinstall.log
The following example installs IBM Business Process Manager Standard, a cumulative fix from another
directory, WebSphere Application
Server Network Deployment, and DB2 Express on Linux.
Tip: If you copy the example, make sure there are no line
breaks.
imcl install com.ibm.bpm.STD.v85,StandardProcessCenter com.ibm.websphere.ND.v85,core.feature,ejbdeploy,thinclient,embeddablecontainer,samples,com.ibm.sdk.6_64bit com.ibm.ws.DB2EXP.linuxia64 -acceptLicense -installationDirectory /opt/IBM/BPM85 -repositories /usr/tmp/BPM/repository/repos_64bit,/usr/tmp/BPMCF -properties user.db2.instance.username=bpmadmin,user.db2.instance.password="Vvrs88V/a9BUdxwodz0nUg==" -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 Profile Management Tool, if it is supported on your operating
system, 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.