WebSphere® MQ
File Transfer Edition Server
can be installed using a graphical installer for Linux, UNIX,
and Windows platforms. The
Server installation provides the components required to run WebSphere MQ
File Transfer Edition agents that connect to WebSphere MQ in client or
bindings mode, agents that can connect to protocol servers, and a
Web Gateway application that you can use to submit and manage transfers
through the web.
Before you begin
To install WebSphere MQ
File Transfer Edition on UNIX and Linux systems, you must have write access to
the locations that you want to use for the installation and data (configuration)
directories. As part of the installation, you must enter the name
of at least one WebSphere MQ
queue manager. Create these queue managers before installing WebSphere MQ
File Transfer Edition Server: The installer
does not create queue managers for you.
About this task
To install WebSphere MQ
File Transfer Edition Server using the graphical
installer, complete the following steps:
Procedure
- Insert
the IBM® WebSphere MQ
File Transfer Edition Server DVD into the DVD
drive.
- Start the installer, using the
executable file or binary file. On Windows,
this file is install.exe and on UNIX and Linux platforms,
this file is install.bin.
When
you have started the installer, continue with the installation process
by working through each of the panels outlined in the following steps
. The installer itself contains help information about selected panels.
- Select the language that you want to
use for the installation process. Click OK.
- On the Server - Introduction panel,
click Next.
- Read the software license agreement
and select the option to accept the terms of the license. Click Next.
- Enter (or browse for) a product installation
directory and a data directory for WebSphere MQ
File Transfer Edition, or accept the default
locations. The data directory is used to store your configuration
information. Click Next.
- The default installation directory for the Server on Windows is C:\Program Files\IBM\WMQFTE\.
- The default data directory for the Server on Windows is C:\Documents and Settings\All
Users\Application Data\IBM\WMQFTE\config\ or C:\ProgramData\IBM\WMQFTE\config\.
- The default installation directory for the Server on UNIX systems is /opt/IBM/WMQFTE/.
- The default data directory for the Server on UNIX systems is /var/IBM/WMQFTE/config.
- The default installation directory for the Server on Linux systems is /opt/ibm/WMQFTE/.
For more information, see Installation location on Linux platforms.
- The default data directory for the Server on Linux systems is /var/ibm/WMQFTE/config.
For more information, see Installation location on Linux platforms.
- If the product installation directory
exists because you have already installed a different WebSphere MQ
File Transfer Edition component, you can either
choose to Refresh existing install or Select
new product directory. If the data directory exists because
of a previous installation, you can either choose to Reuse
existing configurations or Select new configuration
directory. If you choose to reuse an existing configuration,
go to step 14.
- Enter your coordination queue manager
name and select either client or bindings transport
mode to connect to the coordination queue manager. Click Next. The coordination queue manager name is case-sensitive.
- If you selected client mode in the
previous step, enter the host name, port number, and channel name
of your coordination queue manager. Click Next.
- Enter your agent name, an optional agent
description, and the agent queue manager name. Then select either client or bindings transport
mode to connect to the agent queue manager. Click Next. The agent name is not case-sensitive. All agent names are uppercase.
If you enter an agent name in mixed case or lowercase it is converted
to uppercase. The agent queue manager name is case-sensitive.
- If you selected client mode in the
previous step, enter the agent queue manager host name, port number,
and channel name. Click Next.
- Enter your command queue manager name.
Then select either client or bindings transport
mode. Click Next. The command queue
manager name is case-sensitive. The command queue manager is used
to connect to the WebSphere MQ
network and is the queue manager connected to when you issue WebSphere MQ File Transfer
Edition commands.
- If you selected client mode in
the previous step, enter the command queue manager host name, port
number, and channel name. Click Next.
- Read the summary panel. You can click Previous to
go back and modify any of the earlier panels. Click Install and
wait while the files are installed.
- The installer creates a file containing
MQSC commands that you must run against the coordination queue manager.
Make a note of the location of the file and ensure that you run these
commands after completing the installer panels. Click Next to
continue.
- The installer creates a file containing
MQSC commands that you must run against the agent queue manager. Make
a note of the location of the file and ensure that you run these commands
after completing the installer panels. Click Next to
continue.
- On the Install complete panel,
click Done.
What to do next
Use the MQSC scripts created
by the installation process to create WebSphere MQ objects on your agent queue
manager and coordination queue manager. For more details, see the
topic Configuring WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition on Windows, UNIX, and Linux systems after you have installed. If you want to
set up your agent and coordination queue managers manually, see Configuring the coordination queue manager and Configuring agent queue managers.