Unattended (silent) installation
WebSphere MQ for Windows is installed using the Microsoft Installer (MSI). We can invoke MSI directly, without using the WebSphere MQ Installation Launchpad. This means that we can install WebSphere MQ on a machine without interaction. This process is called unattended (or silent) installation, and is particularly useful for installing WebSphere MQ over a network on a remote machine, because we can install from a shared drive on a LAN server.
The machine on which you want to install must be able to share the WebSphere MQ Server CD, or a copy of the files on it, and be able to execute a command on that machine. The silent install methods assume that you have already installed any prerequisites for the features you plan to install.
The prerequisites can be installed in the setup panels of the Launchpad,
There are several ways to invoke MSI without using the WebSphere MQ installation launchpad. These are:
- Using the Msiexec command with command line parameters.
- Using the Msiexec command with a parameter that calls a response file. .
- Use the MQParms command with command line parameters, a parameter file, or both.
- Use Microsoft System Management Server.
On completion of a silent installation, the WebSphere MQ service and WebSphere MQ Taskbar application start automatically. This prevents the installation of other packages, such as any required fix packs. To work around this problem perform the following steps.
- If you are upgrading an existing WebSphere MQ installation, ensure that existing queue managers are set to manual start.
- Perform the silent installation.
- Issue the command...
net stop "IBM MQSeries"...to stop any WebSphere MQ processes started following the installation.
- Check all WebSphere MQ processes are stopped.
- Install further packages as required.
See also:
- Installing using Msiexec
- Using command line parameters with Msiexec
- Using a response file with Msiexec
- Installing silently using Msiexec with a response file
- Using transforms with Msiexec
- Startup parameters for Prepare WebSphere MQ wizard
- Using the MQParms command
Parent topic:
WebSphere MQ Server installation methods