Installing Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus

You can install Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus with the IBM® Installation Manager GUI or console, or do a silent installation. The product is available as a compressed file distribution on DVD or can be downloaded from IBM Passport Advantage.

The compressed file distribution contains IBM Installation Manager. Use this option when you want to install Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus on a small number of computers. Also use it to install the product if you have no access to the Internet and you do not want to manage your own repository of IBM software.

Alternatively, install IBM Installation Manager separately and use it to download and install the product from an IBM repository or from a local repository on your network. Use this option to install, or update to, the latest software without copying compressed files to each computer. Unless each computer has access to the Internet, you will have to maintain one or more software repositories. For more information about using IBM Installation Manager for Enterprise Deployment and about the Installation Manager Packaging Utility, see http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSDV2W_1.0.0/com.ibm.im.articles.doc/topics/entdeployment.htm.

The following table describes the available options for installing the product with IBM Installation Manager.
Table 1. Installation options
Installation option Description
Option 1
  1. Download and install IBM Installation Manager.
  2. Use IBM Installation Manager to download and install Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus from IBM Passport Advantage® repositories.
Option 2
  1. Download and install IBM Installation Manager.
  2. Use the IBM Installation Manager Packaging Utility to copy Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus from IBM Passport Advantage repositories to a local repository.
  3. Use IBM Installation Manager to install Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus.
Option 3
  1. Acquire the Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus compressed distribution file from IBM Passport Advantage or on DVD and extract the contents to a temporary directory.
  2. Use one of the wrapper scripts provided to install IBM Installation Manager and Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus at the same time.

    The available scripts are: install_gui.sh (for GUI installs), install_console.sh (for console installs), or install_silent.sh (for silent installs).

    Note: These scripts automatically select Installation Manager Administrator mode when they are run by a root user or Nonadministrator mode when run by a non-root user. If you want to use Group mode, you must manually install Installation Manager with the groupinst or groupinstc command.
Option 4
  1. Download and install IBM Installation Manager.
  2. Acquire the Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus compressed distribution file from IBM Passport Advantage or on DVD and store the contents in a local repository.
  3. Use IBM Installation Manager to install Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus.

For more information about installing products with IBM Installation Manager, see http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSDV2W/im_family_welcome.html.