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 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 information Installation Manager, including other enterprise deployment options, see the Installation Manager Information Center at http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/install/v1r7/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.im.articles.doc/topics/SCRIPTING_IM.htm.

You run the following scripts on the base computer to silently run Installation Manager and perform a task with a response file. You can install the product, update the product, install the license activation kit, modify a product installation, and uninstall the product. For the other computers in your enterprise, you reuse the same script and response file to replicate the task on each of the other computers. You must have an instance of Installation Manager installed on each computer that you to use the scripts to .

The following scripts require Installation Manager and are included with IBM InfoSphere Data Architect in the enterpriseDeployment directory of the product image.

Table 1. Script files in the enterpriseDeployment directory for IBM InfoSphere Data Architect
Scripts Description

Windows: IM_run_silent_install.bat
Linux: IM_run_silent_install.sh

Uses the response_install.xml response file to silently install the product.

Windows: IM_run_silent_update.bat
Linux: IM_run_silent_update.sh

Uses the response_update.xml response file to update the product.

Windows: IM_run_silent_modify.bat
Linux: IM_run_silent_modify.sh

Uses the response_modify.xml response file to add or remove installable features or languages.

Windows: IM_run_silent_uninstall.bat
Linux: IM_run_silent_uninstall.sh

Uses the response_uninstall.xml response file to silently uninstall the product.
The following two directories are created during the process of running these scripts:
Example Installation Scenario
To use the scripts to deploy the installation of 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. 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. Install Installation Manager on the next computer that you want to install the product on.
  7. On the computer where you installed Installation Manager, run the script to run a silent installation and replicate the product installation.

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