Extracting the installation media and scripts

Provide the installation media and scripts to the server.

Before you begin

Before you start installing IBM® Intelligent Operations Center, review the latest installation updates to ensure that you have the most recent version of the installer. See the technote at IBM Intelligent Operations Center V5.2 installation updates.

The installation media is provided as five ISO image files. Copy the ISO image files to a temporary location on the server. Alternatively, copy the files to a Network File System (NFS) server that is accessible from the server.

About this task

Use the following procedure to extract the installation media and scripts that are contained in the ISO image files to an /installmedia directory on the server.

Alternatively, you can extract the ISO images files to an NFS server. After all of the ISO image files have been extracted, create an NFS export to share the /installmedia directory with the server.

Procedure

Enter the following commands in a terminal window as the root user to create directories either on the server, or on an NFS server:
```
mkdir /solution_iso_images
mkdir /solutionmedia
mkdir /installmedia
```
Copy the ISO image files into the /solution_iso_images directory.

Enter the following commands, substituting the name of each .iso file for the filename_num variables, to extract the contents of each of the ISO image files to the /installmedia directory:

cd /solution_iso_images
mount -o loop filename_num1.iso /solutionmedia
cp -r /solutionmedia/* /installmedia/
umount /solutionmedia
mount -o loop filename_num2.iso /solutionmedia
cp -r /solutionmedia/* /installmedia/
umount /solutionmedia
mount -o loop filename_num3.iso /solutionmedia
cp -r /solutionmedia/* /installmedia/
umount /solutionmedia
mount -o loop filename_num4.iso /solutionmedia
cp -r /solutionmedia/* /installmedia/
umount /solutionmedia
mount -o loop filename_num5.iso /solutionmedia
cp -r /solutionmedia/* /installmedia/
umount /solutionmedia
rmdir /solutionmedia

If you extracted the media to an NFS server, configure an NFS export. Otherwise, go to step 6.
1. Create the /etc/exports file if it does not exist.
2. Edit the /etc/exports file, and add the following line:
```
/installmedia/ *(ro,sync)
```
3. Start rpcbind and the NFS server:
  - For IBM Intelligent Operations Center V5.2.1, enter the following commands:
```
systemctl start rpcbind.service; systemctl start nfs.service
```
  - For IBM Intelligent Operations Center V5.2.0, enter the following commands:
```
service rpcbind start; service nfs start
```
4. Check the NFS server status:
  - For IBM Intelligent Operations Center V5.2.1, enter the following command:
```
systemctl status nfs.service
```
  - For IBM Intelligent Operations Center V5.2.0, enter the following command:
```
service nfs status
```
5. Enter the following command to verify that the mount is exported:
```
showmount -e localhost
```
If you extracted the media to an NFS server, create an NFS mount to the /installmedia directory. Otherwise, go to step 6.
1. Start the NFS server:
  - For IBM Intelligent Operations Center V5.2.1, enter the following command:
```
systemctl start nfs.service
```
  - For IBM Intelligent Operations Center V5.2.0, enter the following command:
```
service nfs start
```
2. Enter the following command to create the /installmedia directory:
```
mkdir /installmedia
```
  Note: If the /installmedia directory exists, ensure that the directory is empty. The directory must be empty for the mount command to work correctly.
3. Enter the following command to verify that the mount is available:
```
showmount -e NFS file server hostname
```
  A list of available mount points are listed. If the /installmedia directory is correctly mounted, it is displayed as an option. The following example shows an example command and the resulting output:
```
#showmount -e ioc51nfs
Export list for ioc51nfs:
/installmedia *
```
4. Enter the following command to mount the /installmedia share locally on the server with an NFS mount tool:
```
mount -t nfs ioc51nfs:/installmedia /installmedia
```
On the server, create an installation directory and copy the ioc_platform.tar.gz compressed installation file to the installation directory:
1. Open a terminal window and log on as the root user.
2. Enter the following command to create the base IBM Intelligent Operations Center installation directory:
```
mkdir -p /opt/IBM/
```
3. Enter the following command to copy the ioc_platform.tar.gz installation file from the /installmedia directory to the base IBM Intelligent Operations Center installation directory:
```
cp /installmedia/ioc_platform.tar.gz /opt/IBM/
```