Installing in silent mode

A silent mode installation uses a response file that is included with your installation media that you can edit as needed. Run the installation in silent mode if you want to deploy the product with identical installation configurations on multiple computers. In silent mode, the installation process obtains the installation settings from a predefined response file and does not prompt you for any information.

1. Open your response file in a text editor (in these steps, it is called sample_response.txt) and review the configuration settings. Edit as needed, then save and close the file.
2. Provide values for the following settings, which determine account details for the administrative user:
   • IAGLOBAL_WASUserID
   • IAGLOBAL_WASPassword
3. Optional: Edit the default port number settings as required.
4. You can install Tivoli Integrated Portal with an embedded WebSphere Application Server or alternatively into an existing WebSphere Application Server base installation.
   • To use an embedded WebSphere Application Server, set IAGLOBAL_INSTALL_INTO_WAS_HOME to false and set IAGLOBAL_TIP_HOME path to where you would like to install Tivoli Integrated Portal, for example:
     • C:\\IBM\\tivoli\\tipv2
       Note: The \ (backslash) character is seen as an escape character. Use two \\ as shown above when defining the path.
     • /opt/IBM/tivoli/tip
   • To install in an existing WebSphere Application Server base, set IAGLOBAL_INSTALL_INTO_WAS_HOME to true and set IAGLOBAL_TIP_HOME to the existing WebSphere Application Server location, which is often called the WAS_HOME.
5. At the command line, change to directory that contains your response file, for example, C:\tipinstall\cdimage
6. Enter the following at the command line:
   Important: To set up and run this function on a Microsoft Windows operating system, your user ID must belong to the administrator group and have the following advanced user rights:

   • Act as part of the operating system
   • Log on as a service
   Note:

   For systems running Microsoft Windows Vista or Microsoft Windows Server 2008, you must run install.bat as an administrator, that is, right click on the command file (or a shortcut to it) and select Run as administrator before you run this command.

   • install.bat full_path_to_JRE sample_response.txt
   • ./install.sh full_path_to_JRE sample_response.txt
     Note: full_path_to_JRE should not include the bin subdirectory.
   Ensure that you enter escape characters the way the Java properties expects them. Non-text characters must be UTF-8 escaped (such as \u0022 for the " double-quote character).
   Note: Installation logs are saved to TipInstaller-xx.log located in the ia directory contained in the following zip archive: tip_home_dir/logs.zip.