File system access rights

The installation tools include:

• IBM Installation Manager
• The Server Configuration Tool
• The Ant tasks to deploy the MobileFirst Server

For WAS Liberty profile, we must have the right to perform the following actions:

• Read the files in the Liberty installation directory.

• Create backup copies and modify server.xml and jvm.options in the configuration directory of the Liberty server...
  /usr/servers/<servername>

• Create files and directories in the Liberty shared resource directory...
  /usr/shared

• Create files in the Liberty server apps directory...
  /usr/servers/<servername>/apps

For WAS full profile and WAS Network Deployment, we must have the right to perform the following actions:

• Read the files in the WAS installation directory.
• Read the configuration file of the selected WAS full profile or of the dmgr profile.
• Run wsadmin.
• Create files in the profiles configuration directory. The installation tools put resources such as shared libraries or JDBC drivers in that directory.

For Apache Tomcat, we must have the right to perform the following actions:

• Read the configuration directory.
• Create backup files and modify files in the configuration directory, such as server.xml, and tomcat-users.xml.
• Create backup files and modify files in the bin directory, such as setenv.bat.
• Create files in the lib directory.
• Create files in the webapps directory.

For all these application servers, the user who runs the application server must be able to read the files created by the user who ran the MobileFirst installation tools.

Parent topic: Plan the installation of MobileFirst Server