IBM® Installation Manager is
a single installation program that uses remote or local software repositories
to install, modify, or update certain IBM products.
Use this program to install, update, modify, roll back, and uninstall
packages on your computer. The program locates and shows available
packages, checks prerequisites and interdependencies, and installs
or modifies the selected packages. You also use Installation
Manager to
uninstall the packages that you installed using Installation
Manager.
Installing Installation
Manager on
your target machines
Before you install
Installation
Manager on
your target machines, you must consider what mode you will use to
deploy packages. The mode that you choose determines how you install
the software. There are three modes: administrator, non-administrator,
and group. The primary difference between these modes is which users
can launch
Installation
Manager.
- Administrator mode: Installation
Manager can
only be installed once per machine. This mode is required for packages
that require administrator or root privileges to be deployed. Also,
the user who launches Installation
Manager must
be a member of the “Administrators” group on Windows or have root privileges on UNIX, Linux, IBM i, IBM z/OS®, and OS X operating systems.
- Non-administrator mode: Installation
Manager can
be installed once per user. This mode is useful when users have their
own copy of an application. Those copies are managed separately by
the respective user accounts. However, in this mode, packages that
require administrator access cannot be installed.
- Group mode: Use this mode when you use
multiple user accounts to manage the installed applications. In group
mode, a group of users share packages. This mode is only available
on Linux, UNIX, IBM z/OS, and OS X platforms. It is
not available on Windows or IBM i. Packages must be enabled
for group mode. Check the documentation for your package to determine
whether the package is enabled for group mode.
Attention: Read this topic to ensure that you understand
what mode you want to use. Once you use a mode to install the product,
your installation cannot be undone. For example, if you use the root
installation, migrating the installation repository information from
the root installation to a non-root installation is not supported.
Also, if you change the content, files, or directories in the agent
data location directory or subdirectories, you will corrupt your product
installation, forcing you to uninstall and reinstall your products.
After
you use one user's account to install the product in nonadministrator
mode, that installation cannot be transferred to another user's account.
Managing installations with Installation
Manager
Wizards guide you through the steps that you must take to install, modify, update, roll back, or
uninstall your IBM products. Use
Installation
Manager
to install individual software packages on your local computer, or with IBM Packaging Utility to
install software for an enterprise. For information about the various methods that you can use to
run the software, see Installation Manager modes.
Downloading Installation
Manager
To download the installation files, go to the Installation
Manager download
links technical document and click the applicable download document link. The download
document contains details about downloading the installation files.
Enterprise Installation articles
These
Enterprise Installation articles provide information about how to
use
Installation
Manager.