Accessing the CD on a remote system

You can install IBM® WebSphere® Message Broker Connectivity Pack for Healthcare from a remote (server) CD, or from a remote shared drive.

Consult your operating system documentation for exact details of the process.

To complete more than one installation of one or more components, you might find that a remote server setup provides some performance benefits.

To enable a remote installation, you must complete tasks on both the server on which the CD, or shared drive is mounted, and each target system on which you want to install the product. For details about the commands used in these examples, refer to the operating system documentation.

Setting up the server

You can either share the CD drive on the server, or copy the installation images onto your disk and share the directory on the disk. For more information about obtaining installation images online, see Accessing the installer. You can share a CD drive on Linux with any other supported Linux system, but not with Windows. You can share a Windows CD drive only with other Windows systems.
  1. To share a copy of the installation image, create the copy by completing the following steps.
    1. Create a directory on the server to store the installation images:
      Linux platform On Linux:
      Enter the following command:
      mkdir /installhealthcare
      where installhealthcare is the directory into which you copy the product files.
      Windows
platform On Windows:
      Enter the following command:
      md m:\installhealthcare
      where m is the drive on which you want to store the installation images, and installhealthcare is the directory on that drive.
    2. Insert and mount the appropriate CD in the drive, as described in Accessing the CD on the local system.
    3. Copy the complete contents of the CD to the new directory.
      Linux platform On Linux:
      Enter the following command:
      cp -rf /cdrom/. /installhealthcare
      Windows
platform On Windows:
      Enter the following command:
      xcopy f:\*.* m:\installhealthcare /e
      where f is the CD drive.
  2. Grant users access to the drive that contains the product code. These instructions are the same for a disk drive on which you have copied the CD contents, and for the CD drive itself.
    Linux platform On Linux:
    Use the exportfs command. The following example gives all users read-only access using NFS:
    exportfs -i -o ro /installhealthcare
    exportfs -a
    where /installhealthcare represents the CD drive or the directory that contains the CD copy.
    Windows
platform On Windows:
    Open Windows Explorer and right-click the drive that you want to share. Click Sharing and follow the instructions on the Properties dialog box.

Setting up the target system

You can set up a target system to access the CD from a server
  1. Linux platform On Linux systems only, create a directory on which to mount the shared directory. Enter the following command:
    mkdir /remotehealthcare
    where remotehealthcare is the name of the new directory.
  2. Access the remote directory.
    Linux platform On Linux:
    Enter the following command:
    mount servername:installhealthcare /remotehealthcare
    where servername is the name of the server on which you created the CD copy.
    Windows
platform On Windows:
    Connect to the appropriate drive and folder by using the net use command at a command prompt on the target system; for example:
    net use x: \\servername\installhealthcare
    where x: is the required mapped drive on the target system.

    If your shared installation directory name contains spaces (for example, Healthcare Image), enclose the path in quotation marks.

    If your server is protected, you might need to specify a user ID and password on this command (see the Windows online help for more information about the net use command). Alternatively, use Windows Explorer or an alternative method to map the shared resource to a drive letter.

    You cannot enter a UNC path (\\server\drive) to access the installation program; you must map the drive, as shown, otherwise the Java process times out. If you cannot map the drive, or choose not to map the drive, copy the contents of the CD onto a local drive and install from that drive. In addition, you cannot enter a UNC path when the installation wizard requests a path as input; the wizard cannot interpret a UNC path.

  3. Change to the remote image directory.
You are now ready to run the installation wizard to install the product from the remote directory to your local system. To install, follow the instructions in Installing.
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