Installing the gateway on Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus V7.4.0

For Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus V7.4.0, all gateways are installed using the Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus installer.

You can install the gateway using any of the following:

The installation wizard
A text-based installer: Console mode
Settings that are predefined in a text file: Silent mode

The installation package and patches for the gateway are supplied as archives. The archive management application that you use to extract the files must be able to preserve the directory structure contained in the archive on extraction.

Note: If you are installing a 32-bit gateway on a system that runs a 64-bit UNIX or Linux operating system, you will need to install additional, 32-bit operating system libraries. See the IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus Installation and Deployment Guide for more information.

Obtaining the installation package

To obtain the installation package and prepare it for installation, use the following steps:

Download the installation package for the gateway from the Passport Advantage Online Web site:
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/howtobuy/passportadvantage/pao_customers.htm
Make a backup of any existing configuration files that you want to retain.
Extract the contents of the installation package to a temporary directory.

Now use one of the installation methods to install your gateway. In each case, the gateway is installed in the following directory:

On Linux and UNIX: $NCHOME/omnibus/gates
On Windows: %NCHOME%\omnibus\gates

The installation wizard

To install the gateway using the installation wizard:

Run the installer for your operating system:
- On Linux and UNIX: $NCHOME/omnibus/install/nco_install_integration
- On Windows: %NCHOME%\omnibus\install\nco_install_integration
When the installation wizard starts, specify the extracted directory that contains the README.txt file as the location of the gateway installation files.
Accept the license conditions.

Console mode

To install the gateway in console mode:

Run the installer for your operating system:
- On Linux and UNIX: $NCHOME/omnibus/install/nco_install_integration -i console
- On Windows: %NCHOME%\omnibus\install\nco_install_integration -i console
When the text-based installer starts, specify the extracted directory that contains the README.txt file as the location of the gateway installation files.
Accept the license conditions.

Silent mode

To install the gateway in silent mode:

Create a text file named reponse.txt and add the following entries:
```
PROBE_OR_GATE_LOCATION=README_directorypath
LICENSE_ACCEPTED=true 
```
where README_directorypath is the path to the directory containing the README.txt file in the extracted package.
Run the installer for your operating system:
- On Linux and UNIX: $NCHOME/omnibus/install/nco_install_integration -i silent -f response_path/response.txt
- On Windows: %NCHOME%\omnibus\install\nco_install_integration -i silent -f response_path\response.txt
where response_path is the full path to the response.txt file.