You can install the following IBM® Sametime® servers silently
using these instructions: Sametime System Console, Sametime Proxy Server, Sametime Advanced Server, Sametime Meeting Server,
and Sametime Media Manager
components (except for the Video MCU). This procedure does not apply
to IBM Sametime Community Server, Sametime Gateway, or Sametime Bandwidth Manager.
Before you begin
The Sametime System
Console does not use a deployment plan for installation. All other Sametime servers that you
install with these instructions require that you first create a deployment
plan on the Sametime System
Console.
About this task
Follow these steps to install the IBM Installation Manager in silent mode. Customize
each product's response file, then install the product in silent
mode using the customized response file. A silent install allows you
to run the installation program with minimal administrator interaction.Procedure
- On the computer where you will install the Sametime
server application, log on as root (AIX® or Linux) or as the system administrator (Windows).
- Find the
software packages you need to download.
- Download
the packages.
- Extract all downloaded packages.
- Install IBM Installation Manager.
- Install IBM
WebSphere Network Deployment.
- Open a command window and navigate to the directory containing
the extracted installation files for the Sametime server that you
are installing.
- Set up the response file using one of the following methods.
- Generate a response file by running the following command
to start the graphical installation program and record your responses:
./install --launcher.ini your .ini file -record response file path -skipInstall agentDataLocation
The
response file is stored in the agentDataLocation directory,
which must be a writable directory. You can use the new file as the
response file in a silent installation. You can use the same agentDataLocation in
the next recording session to record updating or modifying the product.
The products that you installed, and the preferences, including repository
settings that you use in the graphical user installation interface
or the record mode without using -skipInstall are
not stored.
- Modify the sample response file and fill in your settings:
- Change to the responseFiles directory and
locate the response file for the server you are installing.
Unless
you are installing the Sametime System
Console, use the response file that includes _ssc.rsp in
its file name so that it references the deployment plan that you created
on the Sametime System
Console. The other response files in the directory are used for installing
without a deployment plan and uninstalling.
- Make a backup copy of the response file before editing it.
- Use a text editor to modify the response file and fill in the
appropriate values for your deployment.
Include the Sametime System Console
host name, port, user credentials, and the name of the deployment
plan that you created.
- Before adding the SSCPassword value to the response file, encode
it with the generateEncodedPassword utility packaged
with the installer (look in the generateEncodedPassword directory
below the root of the installation media).
Avoid using the ! or
@ characters in the password. Although these characters are valid
in WebSphere Application
Server, some Sametime utilities
have encountered problems processing passwords that contain these
characters. After you have encoded the password, you can copy it into
the response file.
- Save the updated response file.
- Change to the Installation Manager installation directory:
- AIX or Linux:
/opt/ibm/InstallationManager/eclipse
- Windows: C:\Program
Files\IBM\Installation Manager\eclipse
- Enter the following command to install the product in silent
mode, specifying the edited response file name, and then the log file's
path and file name:
- AIX or
Linux
./IBMIM --launcher.ini silent-install.ini -input response file -log log_path_and_filename -acceptLicense
- Windows
IBMIMc --launcher.ini silent-install.ini -input response_file -log log_path_and_filename -acceptLicense