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Prepare to install the software

Preparing for installation and configuration

Task	Where to find information	Result after completing the task
Review hardware and software requirements	Depending on your IBM BPM configuration, visit: IBM BPM Advanced system requirements IBM BPM Standard system requirements IBM BPM Express system requirements	You understand the system requirements necessary to support your IBM BPM installation.
Prepare the operating system	Preparing AIX systems for installation Preparing Linux systems for installation Preparing Solaris systems for installation Preparing Windows systems for installation	You have prepared the operating system of each workstation to be used.
Install the database management system.	Consult the database documentation for information about installing and administering your database management system.	Your database management system is installed. IBM BPM embeds the DB2 Express database. If you want to use DB2 Express as your database, you can select it as a feature from the installer and it is installed and configured automatically. The user must have administrative privileges (root or Administrator) to install DB2 Express. If you already have a version of DB2 installed and you want to install DB2 Express, you must uninstall DB2 before running the IBM BPM installer. If the installer detects a version of DB2 installed and you have selected to install DB2 Express from the installer, you will receive a warning message and will not be able to install DB2 Express. If installing DB2 Express as a root user, you must ensure that all kernel requirements are met before the DB2 Express installation begins. See Kernel parameter requirements ( Linux ) for a list of the kernel requirements. You can locate the current values by parsing the output of the ipcs -l command. You will not be able to properly install and use DB2 Express if the password that is specified does not meet operating system or company restrictions, because an operating system user is created on install.

• System requirements
  Before install, ensure that your system meets all system requirements.
• Preparing operating systems for product installation
  Before you can install IBM BPM, you must prepare your operating system. The configuration depends on the type of operating system you are using.
• Considerations for HADR setup and configuration
  Review the following considerations while you plan to set up and configure DB2 for high availability disaster recovery (HADR).
• Configure Oracle Data Guard for IBM BPM
  

  You can configure Oracle Data Guard to be used with IBM BPM. Oracle Data Guard provides high availability, disaster recovery, and data protection and is used to create, manage, and monitor one or more standby databases so that production Oracle databases can survive disasters and data corruptions.

Install IBM BPM Standard