Install the Application Client using response files

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Install the Application Client using response files

We can install the Application Client using Installation Manager response files.
Install Installation Manager on each of the systems onto which to install the product.
Perform one of the following procedures:
To use the Installation Manager that is included with this product, perform the following actions:
Obtain the necessary files from the physical media or the web.
There are three basic options for obtaining and installing the product.
Access the physical media, and use local installation
You can access the product repositories on the product media.

Install Installation Manager on the system.
We can install Installation Manager using the product media, using a file obtained from the Passport Advantage site, or using a file containing the most current version of Installation Manager from the IBM Installation Manager download website.
Use Installation Manager to install the product from the product repositories on the media.

Download the files from the Passport Advantage site, and use local installation
Licensed customers with a Passport Advantage ID and password can download the necessary product repositories from the Passport Advantage site.

Download the files from the Passport Advantage site.
Tip: See How to download WAS V8.0 from Passport Advantage Online for a list of the IBM WebSphere Application Server v8.0 installation images downloadable from the IBM Passport Advantage Online website and other information.
Install Installation Manager on the system.
We can install Installation Manager using the product media, using a file obtained from the Passport Advantage site, or using a file containing the most current version of Installation Manager from the IBM Installation Manager download website.
Use Installation Manager to install the product from the downloaded repositories.
Access the live repositories, and use web-based installation
If we have a Passport Advantage ID and password, you can install the product from the web-based repositories.
Install Installation Manager on the system.
We can install Installation Manager using the product media, using a file obtained from the Passport Advantage site, or using a file containing the most current version of Installation Manager from the IBM Installation Manager download website.
Use Installation Manager to install the product from the web-based repository located at
http://www.ibm.com/software/repositorymanager/com.ibm.websphere.APPCLIENT.v80
This location does not contain a web page that you can access using a web browser. This is a remote web-based repository location that specify in the response file so that the installation can access the files in this repository.
Whenever possible, you should use the remote web-based repositories so that you are accessing the most up-to-date installation files.
Notes:

If you do not have a Passport Advantage ID and password, install the product from the product repositories on the media or local repositories.
With the Packaging Utility, you can create and manage packages for installation repositories. We can copy multiple packages into one repository or copy multiple disks for one product into a repository. We can copy packages from Passport Advantage or a web-based repository into a local repository for example. For more information on the Packaging Utility, go to the IBM Installation Manager v1.4 Information Center.
Change to the location containing the Installation Manager installation files, and run one of the following commands to install Installation Manager:

Administrative installation:

(Windows) installc.exe -acceptLicense -log log_file_path_and_name
(AIX) (Solaris) ./installc -acceptLicense -log log_file_path_and_name

Non-administrative installation:

(Windows) userinstc.exe -acceptLicense -log log_file_path_and_name
(AIX) (Solaris) ./userinstc -acceptLicense -log log_file_path_and_name

Group-mode installation:

(AIX) (Solaris) ./groupinstc -acceptLicense -dataLocation application_data_location -log log_file_path_and_name
Notes on group mode:

Group mode allows multiple users to use single instance of IBM Installation Manager to manage software packages.
(Windows) Group mode is not available on Windows operating systems.

If you do not install Installation Manager using group mode, you will not be able to use group mode to manage any of the products that you install later using this Installation Manager.
Make sure that you change the installation location from the default location in the current user's home directory to a location that is accessible by all users in the group.
Set up your groups, permissions, and environment variables as described in the Group mode road maps in the IBM Installation Manager v1.4 Information Center before installing in group mode.
For more information on using group mode, read the Group mode road maps in the IBM Installation Manager v1.4 Information Center.
If you already have a version of Installation Manager installed on the system and to use it to install and maintain the product, obtain the necessary product files from the physical media or the web.
There are three basic options for installing the product.
Access the physical media, and use local installation
You can access the product repositories on the product media. Use Installation Manager to install the product from the product repositories on the media.
Download the files from the Passport Advantage site, and use local installation
Licensed customers with a Passport Advantage ID and password can download the necessary product repositories from the Passport Advantage site.

Download the product repositories from the Passport Advantage site.
Tip: See How to download WAS V8.0 from Passport Advantage Online for a list of the IBM WebSphere Application Server v8.0 installation images downloadable from the IBM Passport Advantage Online website and other information.
Use Installation Manager to install the product from the downloaded repositories.
Access the live repositories, and use web-based installation
If we have a Passport Advantage ID and password, you can use Installation Manager to install the product from the web-based repositories. Use Installation Manager to install the product from the web-based repository located at
http://www.ibm.com/software/repositorymanager/com.ibm.websphere.APPCLIENT.v80
This location does not contain a web page that you can access using a web browser. This is a remote web-based repository location that specify in the response file so that the installation can access the files in this repository.
Whenever possible, you should use the remote web-based repositories so that you are accessing the most up-to-date installation files.
Notes:

If you do not have a Passport Advantage ID and password, install the product from the product repositories on the media or local repositories.
With the Packaging Utility, you can create and manage packages for installation repositories. We can copy multiple packages into one repository or copy multiple disks for one product into a repository. We can copy packages from Passport Advantage or a web-based repository into a local repository for example. For more information on the Packaging Utility, go to the IBM Installation Manager v1.4 Information Center.
Add the product repository to your Installation Manager preferences.
Start Installation Manager.
In the top menu, click File > Preferences.

Select Repositories.
Perform the following actions:
Click Add Repository.
Enter the path to the repository.config file in the location containing the repository files.
For example:

(Windows) C:\repositories\product_name\local-repositories
(AIX) (Solaris) /var/repositories/product_name/local-repositories

or
http://www.ibm.com/software/repositorymanager/com.ibm.websphere.APPCLIENT.v80
Click OK.
Deselect any locations listed in the Repositories window that you will not be using.

Click Apply.

Click OK.

Click File > Exit to close Installation Manager.
Use Installation Manager, you can work with response files to install the Application Client in a variety of ways. You can record a response file using the GUI as described in the following procedure, or you can generate a new response file by hand or by taking an example and modifying it.

Procedure
Optional: Record a response file to install the Application Client: On one of the systems, perform the following actions to record a response file that will install the Application Client.
From a command line, change to the eclipse subdirectory in the directory where you installed Installation Manager.
Start Installation Manager from the command line using the -record option.
For example:
(Windows) Administrator or non-administrator:
IBMIM.exe -skipInstall "C:\temp\imRegistry"
  -record C:\temp\install_response_file.xml
(AIX) (Solaris) Administrator:
./IBMIM -skipInstall /var/temp/imRegistry
  -record /var/temp/install_response_file.xml
(AIX) (Solaris) Non-administrator:
./IBMIM -skipInstall user_home/var/temp/imRegistry
  -record user_home/var/temp/install_response_file.xml
Tip: When you record a new response file, you can specify the -skipInstall parameter. Using this parameter has the following benefits:

No files are actually installed, and this speeds up the recording.

If you use a temporary data location with the -skipInstall parameter, Installation Manager writes the installation registry to the specified data location while recording. When you start Installation Manager again without the -skipInstall parameter, you then can use your response file to install against the real installation registry.
The -skipInstall operation should not be used on the actual agent data location used by Installation Manager. This is unsupported. Use a clean writable location, and re-use that location for future recording sessions.

For more information, read the IBM Installation Manager v1.4 Information Center.
Add the appropriate repositories to your Installation Manager preferences.
In the top menu, click File > Preferences.

Select Repositories.
Perform the following actions for each repository:
Click Add Repository.
Enter the path to the repository.config file in the remote web-based repository or the local directory into which you unpacked the repository files.
For example:
Remote repositories:
https://downloads.mycorp.com:8080/WAS_80_repository
or
http://www.ibm.com/software/repositorymanager/com.ibm.websphere.APPCLIENT.v80
Local repositories:

(Windows) C:\repositories\appclient\local-repositories
(AIX) (Solaris) /var/repositories/appclient/local-repositories
Click OK.
Click Apply.

Click OK.
Click Install.
If you are prompted to authenticate, use the IBM ID and password that you registered with on the program website.
Installation Manager searches its defined repositories for available packages.
Perform the following actions.

Select Application Client for IBM WAS and the appropriate version.
New feature: New feature: If you are installing the ILAN version of this product, select Application Client for IBM WAS (ILAN).New feature:
If you already have the Application Client installed on the system, a message displays indicating that the Application Client is already installed. For a given Installation Manager, you can install only one Application Client.

Click Next.

Accept the terms in the license agreements, and click Next.

Specify the installation root directory for the Application Client binaries, which are also referred to as the core product files or system files.
The panel also displays the shared resources directory and disk-space information.
Restrictions:

Delete the default target location and leaving an installation-directory field empty prevents you from continuing.
Do not use symbolic links as the destination directory.
Symbolic links are not supported.
Do not use a semicolon in the directory name.
The Application Client cannot install properly if the target directory includes a semicolon.
(Windows) A semicolon is the character used to construct the class path on Windows systems.
(Windows) The maximum path length on the Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 operating systems is 60 characters.

Click Next.

Select any features to install.
Choose from the following optional features:

IBM Developer Kit, Java 2 Technology Edition
This option installs the IBM Developer Kit, Java 2 Technology Edition.
This feature includes a development kit and a runtime-environment package. The runtime-environment package is always installed with the Java EE and Java thin application client feature even if this feature is not installed.

Java 2 Runtime Environment
This option installs the Java 2 runtime environment.
This feature includes the Java 2 runtime environment of IBM Developer Kit, Java 2 Technology Edition.
Developer Kit
This option installs the developer kit.
This feature includes the developer kit of IBM Developer Kit, Java 2 Technology Edition.

Samples
This option installs executable and source-code examples of programming in both Java EE and non-Java EE client environments.
Standalone Thin Clients, Resource Adapters, and Embeddable Containers
IBM thin clients and resource adapters provide a set of clients and resource adapters for a variety of technologies, such as JAX-WS, JAX-RPC, JAX-RS, XML, EJB, JPA, JMS, and more. An embeddable container runs in a standalone Java Platform, Standard Edition environment. For example, you can use the embeddable EJB container to run enterprise beans outside the application server.

Standalone thin clients and resource adapters
This option installs the runtime for standalone thin clients.
Embeddable EJB container
This option installs the embeddable EJB container.
The embeddable EJB container is a Java Archive (JAR) file that you can use to run enterprise beans in a standalone Java Platform, Standard Edition environment. We can run enterprise beans using this embeddable container outside the application server. The embeddable EJB container is a part of the EJB 3.1 specification and is primarily used for unit testing enterprise beans business logic.

Tip: We can run the Installation Manager later to modify this installation and add or remove features.

Click Next.

Enter the host name and port number of the Websphere Application Server to which to connect.

Click Next.
Review the summary information, and click Install.

If the installation is successful, the program displays a message indicating that installation is successful.
The program might also display important post-installation instructions as well.

If the installation is not successful, click View Log File to troubleshoot the problem.

Click Finish.

Click File > Exit to close Installation Manager.
Optional: If you are using an authenticated remote repository, create a keyring file for installation.
From a command line, change to the eclipse subdirectory in the directory where you installed Installation Manager.
Start Installation Manager from the command line using the -record option.
For example:
(Windows) Administrator or non-administrator:
IBMIM.exe -skipInstall "C:\temp\imRegistry"
  -keyring C:\IM\im.keyring
  -record C:\temp\keyring_response_file.xml
(AIX) (Solaris) Administrator:
./IBMIM -skipInstall /var/temp/imRegistry
  -keyring /var/IM/im.keyring
  -record /var/temp/keyring_response_file.xml
(AIX) (Solaris) Non-administrator:
./IBMIM -skipInstall user_home/var/temp/imRegistry
  -keyring user_home/var/IM/im.keyring
  -record user_home/var/temp/keyring_response_file.xml
When a window opens that requests your credentials for the authenticated remote repository, enter the correct credentials and save them.

Click File > Exit to close Installation Manager.
For more information, read the IBM Installation Manager v1.4 Information Center.
Use the response files to install the Application Client:
Optional: Use the response file to install the keyring: Go to a command line on each of the systems on which to install the product, change to the eclipse/tools subdirectory in the directory where you installed Installation Manager, and install the keyring.
For example:
(Windows) Administrator or non-administrator:
imcl.exe -acceptLicense
  input C:\temp\keyring_response_file.xml
  -log C:\temp\keyring_log.xml
(AIX) (Solaris) Administrator:
./imcl -acceptLicense
  input /var/temp/keyring_response_file.xml
  -log /var/temp/keyring_log.xml
(AIX) (Solaris) Non-administrator:
./imcl -acceptLicense
  input user_home/var/temp/keyring_response_file.xml
  -log user_home/var/temp/keyring_log.xml
Use the response file to install the product : Go to a command line on each of the systems on which to install the product, change to the eclipse/tools subdirectory in the directory where you installed Installation Manager, and install the product.
For example:
(Windows) Administrator or non-administrator:
imcl.exe -acceptLicense
  input C:\temp\install_response_file.xml
  -log C:\temp\install_log.xml
  -keyring C:\IM\im.keyring
(AIX) (Solaris) Administrator:
./imcl -acceptLicense
  input /var/temp/install_response_file.xml
  -log /var/temp/install_log.xml
  -keyring /var/IM/im.keyring
(AIX) (Solaris) Non-administrator:
./imcl -acceptLicense
  input user_home/var/temp/install_response_file.xml
  -log user_home/var/temp/install_log.xml
  -keyring user_home/var/IM/im.keyring
Notes:

The relevant terms and conditions, notices, and other information are provided in the license-agreement files in the lafiles or product_name/lafiles subdirectory of the installation image or repository for this product.
The program might write important post-installation instructions to standard output.

Read the IBM Installation Manager v1.4 Information Center for more information.
Example (Windows)

The following is an example of a response file for installing the Application Client.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<agent-input clean="true" temporary="true">
<server>
<repository location="http://www.ibm.com/software/repositorymanager/com.ibm.websphere.APPCLIENT.v80" />
</server>
<install modify='false'>
<offering id='com.ibm.websphere.APPCLIENT.v80'
  profile='Application Client for IBM WAS V8.0'
  features='javaee.thinclient.core.feature,javaruntime,developerkit,embeddablecontainer' installFixes='none'/>
</install>
<profile id='Application Client for IBM WAS V8.0'
  installLocation='C:\IBM\WebSphere\AppClient'>
<data key='eclipseLocation' value='C:\IBM\WebSphere\AppClient'/>
<data key='user.import.profile' value='false'/>
<data key='user.select.64bit.image,com.ibm.websphere.APPCLIENT.v80' value='false'/>
<data key='user.appclient.serverHostname' value='localhost'/>
<data key='user.appclient.serverPort' value='2809'/>
<data key='cic.selector.nl' value='en'/>
</profile>
</agent-input> 
In the following list, the optional feature offering names are enclosed in parentheses:

IBM Developer Kit, Java 2 Technology Edition

Java 2 Runtime Environment (javaruntime)
Developer Kit (developerkit)

Samples (samples)
Standalone Thin Clients, Resource Adapters, and Embeddable Containers

Standalone Thin Clients Runtime (standalonethinclient.resourceadapter.runtime)
Standalone Thin Clients Samples (standalonethinclient.resourceadapter.samples)
Embeddable EJB Container (embeddablecontainer)

Tip: See Sample response file: Installing the Application Client for IBM WAS for an annotated sample of a response file for performing this procedure.
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