Silent Installation

 

We can perform a silent installation of WebSphere MQ for Sun Solaris. A script file called silent.sh is supplied in the silent directory on the CD-ROM. This script allows you to perform a non-interactive installation that requires no input and displays no output on the screen and must be run as root.

The installation script silent.sh uses an admin file and a response file, both of which are supplied in the silent directory. We can use these files as supplied to perform a silent installation for all the common features, including all the national language features.

By default, the silent.sh script assumes that the WebSphere MQ Server CD-ROM has been mounted on /cdrom and it writes all output and logs to the file /tmp/mq.install. If you want to alter these values, copy silent.sh and the admin and response files to a writable directory, make the necessary changes, and run the script from the modified location.

You also need to edit the response file if you want to change the components to install, for example, because you do not want all the national language features.

When you have checked the script files and made any changes required, run silent.sh to start the install. When the installation of WebSphere MQ for Sun Solaris is complete, check the log file for any errors.

 

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Installation procedure


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