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Linux: Installing IBM Java 7
There are two alternative methods for installing IBM Java 7.
Method 1: installation of an rpm-based package and Method 2: retrieval and extraction of a Linux .tar gzip archive. This allows you to choose between an rpm-based installation, or a simple download and extract operation to a location of your choice.
- Method 1: installation of an rpm-based package
The IBM Java 7 installation package is provided as an .rpm package file located on the system where the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server component is installed. Support for the Tivoli Enterprise Portal browser client on Linux has been tested using the Mozilla Firefox browser, releases 3.6 through the most recent Extended Support Release at the 32-bit and 64-bit level.
- Method 2: retrieval and extraction of a Linux .tar gzip archive
To install IBM Java 7 for use with the Tivoli Enterprise Portal browser and Web Start clients in a Linux environment.
- Start the Tivoli Enterprise Portal client
The first time that you start The Tivoli Enterprise Portal browser and Web Start clients, you can expect a longer than normal delay before the Tivoli Enterprise Portal login panel is displayed. The longer delay is caused by the updated IBM Tivoli Monitoring changes you make, as well as the initial population of the IBM Java 6 Java archive file (JAR) cache. Subsequent launches of the Tivoli Enterprise Portal client will be noticeably faster.
- Linux: Upgrading your existing version of Java to IBM Java 7
If you are upgrading to IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.3 from a previous IBM Tivoli Monitoring release, then as stated previously in this section, no requirement exists to upgrade to IBM Java 7. Your current working Java environment for the Tivoli Enterprise Portal browser and Web Start clients will continue to work after the IBM Tivoli Monitoring upgrade is successfully completed.
- Linux: Java 5 post-installation configuration
After installing IBM Java 5 you must configure the JVM to successfully launch the Tivoli Enterprise Portal browser and Web Start clients.
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