Portal, V6.1

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Install WebSphere Portal on AIX

Install IBM WebSphere Portal on your secondary nodes to create a highly available and scalable environment.

Review the Supported hardware and software requirements for your operating system and ensure that all hardware and software matches the minimum product level before installing WebSphere Portal.

Review Installation methods, options, and sources before installing to determine your installation source location and installation method.

To install WebSphere Portal:

1. Type ping yourserver.setgetweb.com to verify that your fully qualified host.name is properly configured.

2. If you are installing with an existing WAS instance, ensure it is installed at the supported level and has the following features installed:

   • Application Server

   • Administration

     • Scripted Administration

     • Administrative Console

   • Ant and Deployment Tools

     • Deploy Tool

     • Ant Utilities

3. Optional

   To install WebSphere Portal using a non-root user

   1. Install the current supported version of WAS as a root user.

   2. To create a non-root user and to change ownership:

      1. Use the appropriate system commands to create a new group, to create a new user, and to add the new user to the new group.

      2. To change the rights of the non-root user:

         chmod -R g+rwx /opt/IBM chgrp -R group_name /opt/IBM chmod -R g+wr /tmp chgrp -R group_name /tmp chmod -R g+wr /var/tmp chgrp -R group_name /var/tmp
         

   3. Launch the installation program and install to an existing WAS using the non-root user and set the installation location to a unique location under the path where non-root permissions were granted.

4. Enter one of the following installation commands:

   Option	Description
   GUI	./install.sh
   Console mode	./install.sh -console
   Silent install	./install.sh -options "/path/to/file/response_filename" where /path/to/file is the full path to the response file and response_filename is the name of the file. A sample install response file (installresponse.txt) and a sample uninstall response file (uninstallresponse.txt) are located in the setup CD root. Only put quotation marks around the file name if there are spaces in the directory path or file name.

5. Optional

   To change the ports for WAS or WebSphere Portal:

   1. Stop the server1 and WebSphere_Portal servers.

   2. Run one of the following commands for each server change:

      Method	Task
      Start port number	./ConfigEngine.sh modify-ports-by-startport -DModifyPortsServer=server -DStartPort=starting port number
      Port file Sample port files are available on the Setup disc.	./ConfigEngine.sh modify-ports-by-portsfile -DModifyPortsServer=server -DPortsFile=/path/to/ports/file

   3. Restart the server1 and WebSphere_Portal servers.

 

Parent topic

Preparing additional nodes on AIX

Next topic:

Choosing the type of additional node to create on AIX

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