Overview of enterprise deployment

Enterprise deployment allows you to install IBM® InfoSphere® Data Architect on one computer (the base computer) and then easily replicate the installation to other computers in your enterprise.

IBM InfoSphere Data Architect provides enterprise deployment scripts that you can use to install the product on the other computers in your enterprise. Optionally, users can download and install IBM Installation Manager on their computers to then access and install the product from the shared directory on your network. You can download a supported version of IBM Installation Manager at http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27025142. For the versions of Installation Manager that are supported by IBM InfoSphere Data Architect, see Hardware and software requirements for IBM InfoSphere Data Architect.

For more information, including more enterprise deployment options, see the IBM Installation Manager Information Center at http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/install/v1r6/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.im.articles.doc/topics/SCRIPTING_IM.htm.

The following scripts require IBM Installation Manager and are included with IBM InfoSphere Data Architect in the enterpriseDeployment directory.
Table 1. Script files in the enterpriseDeployment directory for InfoSphere Data Architect
Script Description
IM_run_silent_install.bat For Windows operating systems: To be run on the base computer to execute the response files, and then to be moved and run on the other systems.
IM_run_silent_lak.bat
IM_run_silent_modify.bat
IM_run_silent_uninstall.bat
IM_run_silent_install.sh For Linux operating systems: To be run on the base computer to execute the response files, and then to be moved and run on the other systems.
IM_run_silent_lak.sh
IM_run_silent_modify.sh
IM_run_silent_uninstall.sh
These two directories are created during the process of running these scripts:
In general, you use the scripts to run the silent action on the base computer. Then, you run the script for the silent action on other computers. For example, to use the scripts to deploy the installation of IBM Installation Manager and IBM InfoSphere Data Architect across your enterprise, you would:
  1. Download the product packages.
  2. Extract the compressed files into a shared directory that all the computers can access.
  3. Optional: Update the installation scripts to change any default parameters.
  4. Create a response file or update the sample response files in the product_package/enterpriseDeployment/sampleResponseFiles directory in the product package.
  5. Run the script for a silent installation on the base computer.
  6. Run the script for the silent installation on other computers to replicate installation.

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