The product repository on an HTTP server is used to install
the product on your local computer and on additional computers.
Before you begin
Install Installation Manager on the local computer to use
a repository created by IBM® Packaging
Utility.
Procedure
- Download the Rational® product
from IBM Passport Advantage®.
- Download the IBM Rational Enterprise Deployment
v7.1 platform installation files from IBM Passport Advantage.
The Rational Enterprise
Deployment files are part of the same eAssembly as the Rational product.
The Rational Enterprise Deployment
v7.1.x platform files contain
Packaging Utility and Installation Manager. A version of Installation
Manager is also included with the Rational product.
The version of Installation Manager might be different in the Rational Enterprise Deployment
files and in the Rational product.
- Extract the installation files for the Rational product, Installation Manager,
and the Packaging Utility to a local computer. The extracted installation
files contain the product repository. The following examples
show directories on the local computer that contain the extracted
installation files:
Windows® systemsC:\installation_files\Rational_product
C:\installation_files\EnterpriseCD-platform\InstallationManager
C:\installation_files\EnterpriseCD-platform\PackagingUtility
Linux® or UNIX® systems/installation_files/Rational_product
/installation_files/EnterpriseCD-platform/InstallationManager
/installation_files/EnterpriseCD-platform/PackagingUtility
- Locate the file agent.installer.platform-version.zip in
the InstallationManager directory, and extract the file to the InstallationManager
directory.
You can determine the version of Installation
Manager files by checking the config.ini file. For information, seeDetermining the version of Installation Manager.
- Locate the file pu.disk_platform-version.zip in
the PackagingUtility directory, and extract the file to the PackagingUtility
directory.
- Use
the following commands to install IBM Packaging
Utility. Installation Manager is automatically installed when you
install Packaging Utility.
Windows systems<installation_files>\InstallationManager\install.exe
<installation_files>\PackagingUtility\disk_platform\InstallerImage_platform\install.exe
Note: On Windows,
use install.exe for installations that use the GUI. Use installc.exe
for silent installs.
Linux or UNIX systems/installation_files/InstallationManager/install.exe
/installation_files/PackagingUtility/disk_platform/InstallerImage_platform/install
- Create
the repository in Packaging Utility.
- Check that the computer that has Packaging Utility installed
can access the HTTP server. Access includes FTP access or mapping
a writable, shared drive to the document directory on the HTTP server.
- Start the Packaging Utility.
- Click .
- Click Open Repository.
- Click Browse and navigate to
the directory containing the Rational product
installation files. For example:
Windows systems:
C:\<installation_files>\<Rational_product>\disk1\diskTag.inf
Linux or UNIX systems /installation_files/Rational_product/disk1/diskTag.inf
Note: If your repository contains both diskTag.inf
and a repository.config directories, select the diskTag.inf directory.
If the repository.config directory is selected, the copy process fails.
Note: After
selecting
Copy Packages, the following message
is displayed:
Download zips from IBM Web site to hard drive. Unzip each into a common root directory.
After
selecting
Open Repository, the following message
is displayed:
You can open the repository.config file, a directory that contains the repository.config file, a .zip file, or a JAR file. For enterprise CD images, open the diskTag.inf file in the root of the CD.
Compressed
files that contain a diskTag.inf or are larger than 2.2 GB must be
extracted. Both the Rational ClearCase® and Rational ClearQuest® 7.1 installation files contain
a diskTag.inf file.
Note these differences between repository.config
and diskTag.inf. Repository.config is a file that can be created using
the Packaging Utility or obtained from the installation files. This
file is typically in the <installation_files>\<Rational_Product> directory.
diskTag.inf indicates to Installation Manager that the files
are from a disk image. diskTag.inf can be across multiple disks.
You cannot create a diskTag.inf with Packaging Utility but you can
select a diskTag.inf in Packaging Utility. diskTag.inf cannot be used
from an HTTP server. Fixpacks do not contain a diskTag.inf.
Note
that this scenario does not use Launchpad. Launchpad is shipped only
with disk images and uses only diskTag.inf. Launchpad does not use
repository.config.
- The default value for the repository
name is the location of the selected repository. To enter a different
repository name, clear the option Use the location as the
name of the target repository. For example:
Windows systems:
C:\<installation_files>\<Rational_product>\disk1\diskTag.inf
Linux or UNIX systems:
/installation_files/Rational_product/disk1/diskTag.inf
- Click OK.
- In the Source window, verify that
the Rational product repository
is selected. Expand the repository name to see the files located
in the repository.
- Click .
- Click Browse to select the directory
on the HTTP server that will contain the repository. You must select
an existing directory. For
example, for Windows: \\HTTPServer\Rational_product or
for Linux or UNIX systems: /HTTPServer/Rational_product.
- Click Next.
- Click Copy to copy the selected
repositories into a repository located on the HTTP server.
For
example, on Windows systems,
files in the Rational product
repository, C:\installation_files\Rational_product\disk1\diskTag.inf,
are copied to the repository on the HTTP server, \\HTTPServer\Rational_product.
On Linux or UNIX systems, files in the Rational product repository, installation_files/Rational_product/disk1/diskTag.inf,
are copied to the repository on the HTTP server, /HTTPServer/Rational_product.
- Close the Packaging Utility.
- Copy the Installation Manager files to the HTTP server.
You cannot add Installation Manager files to the repository created
by the Packaging Utility. For example:
Windows systems:
\\HTTPServer\InstallationManager
Linux or UNIX systems:
/HTTPServer/InstallationManager
Note: You
can add an Installation Manager fix pack, com.ibm.cic.agent.offering.zip,
to the repository created by Packaging Utility.