Review the tasks that are involved in the installation
of IBM® Integration Bus.
About this task
The tasks that you perform to complete the installation are
listed in the following steps; each task indicates whether it is
required or optional. A summary of each task is provided, along
with pointers to topics or sections that describe the task in more
detail.
Procedure
- Required: Make sure that you have acquired
the product packages that you need for installation.
Physical and electronic packages are available for IBM Integration Bus.
DVDs are supplied in the physical package, and electronic images are available from the IBM
Passport Advantage® website.
- Required: Make sure that you have access to
the product documentation that you need for installation; see Finding the latest information.
- Required: Determine the platforms on which
to install IBM Integration Bus.
On Windows and Linux®, the
IBM Integration Bus installation
includes
IBM Integration Toolkit. For more information,
see
IBM Integration Toolkit.
Note: IBM MQ is no longer a prerequisite
for using
IBM Integration Bus. For more
information, see
Installing IBM MQ.
- Optional: If you have installed previous versions
of IBM Integration Bus on your computer, you
can install the latest version alongside the existing deployment,
or you can migrate your existing deployment to the latest version;
see Coexistence of IBM Integration Bus Version 10.1 with previous versions.
- Required: Prepare each computer on which you
are installing IBM Integration Bus.
- Required: Check that your target computers
meet the initial hardware, storage, and software requirements.
- Required: Understand the security requirements
for running IBM Integration Bus; see Security requirements.
- Optional: If you are installing IBM Integration Bus on distributed systems,
then configure temporary directory space to enable IBM Integration Bus Java™ components to operate correctly;
see Configuring temporary space on distributed systems.
- Optional: If you are installing IBM Integration Bus on
Linux systems, check your kernel configuration; see Checking the kernel configuration on Linux systems.
- Optional: If you are installing IBM Integration Bus on z/OS®, then you must complete the
following steps:
- Required: Install IBM Integration Bus; see Installing IBM Integration Bus software.
- Optional: Set up a command environment so that
you can run administrative commands; see Setting up a command environment.
- Optional: If required, change the integration
node operation mode to conform to your license; see Configuring your integration nodes to conform to your license.
- Optional: If required, install any complementary
products; see Installing and uninstalling complementary products.
Results
You have reviewed the installation steps.