IBM Installation Manager
IBM Storage Protect uses IBM Installation Manager, which is an installation program that can use remote or local software repositories to install or update many IBM® products.
If the required version of IBM Installation Manager is not already installed, it is automatically installed or upgraded when you install IBM Storage Protect. It must remain installed on the system so that IBM Storage Protect can be updated or uninstalled later as needed.
- Offering
- An installable unit of a software product.
The IBM Storage Protect offering contains all of the media that IBM Installation Manager requires to install IBM Storage Protect.
- Package
- The group of software components that are required to install
an offering. The IBM Storage Protect package contains the following components:
- IBM Installation Manager installation program
- IBM Storage Protect offering
- Package group
- A set of packages that share a common parent directory.
The default package group for the IBM Storage Protect package is
IBM Installation Manager. - Repository
- A remote or local storage area for data and other application
resources.
The IBM Storage Protect package is stored in a repository on IBM Fix Central.
- Shared resources directory
- A directory that contains software files or plug-ins that are
shared by packages.
IBM Installation Manager stores installation-related files in the shared resources directory, including files that are used for rolling back to a previous version of IBM Storage Protect.