Installing feature packs silently on a WebSphere Commence clustered environment

You can install your feature pack using a silent method which uses a response file; no graphical interface is required. The silent install can be used to automate the installation.

About this task

Your WebSphere Commerce instance can be active or stopped during the installation of the WebSphere Commerce feature pack.

Procedure

Uninstall any interim fixes that are installed and not part of the feature pack you are installing.
See APARs fixed in WebSphere Commerce feature packs for a list of APARs fixed in each feature pack. Feature packs are cumulative, so the latest feature pack includes the fixes for APARs fixed in all lower-level feature packs.
Note: Record all interim fixes that you uninstall. After you install the feature pack, you must contact support to obtain a new version of any APAR that was not included in it.
Passport Advantage Save it to a temporary location on your WebSphere Commerce or WebSphere Commerce Developer machine. This temporary location is denoted as the FeaturePack_tempdir in the following sections. Unzip the WebSphere Commerce feature pack package into the FeaturePack_tempdir directory.
Review the IBM International Program License Agreement found in the following location:
- FeaturePack_tempdir\server\FEPX\fepX.primary.pak\repository\fepX.lafiles\license.fepX
Where X is the number of the feature pack number that you have downloaded.
Navigate to the FeaturePack_tempdir/server directory and create a responsefile.txt file if the file does not exist.
Edit the responsefile.txt file, ensuring the following sections are edited appropriately:
1. If you agree to the terms of the both the IBM and the third party license agreements, change the applicable properties to "true". For example:
```
-OPT silentInstallLicenseAcceptance="true"
-OPT silentInstall3rdPartyLicenseAcceptance="true" 
```
2. Specify the full path name of the WebSphere Commerce or WebSphere Commerce Developer installation directory in the installLocation property. For example:
  - -OPT installLocation="/usr/IBM/WebSphere/CommerceServer70"
  - -OPT installLocation="/opt/IBM/WebSphere/CommerceServer70"
  - -OPT installLocation="/QIBM/ProdData/CommerceServer70"
  - -OPT installLocation="C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\CommerceServer70"
3. Save the file and exit.
Navigate to the FeaturePack_tempdir/server and launch the installer by issuing the following command:
- ./install -options FeaturePack_tempdir/server/responsefile.txt -silent -is:javaconsole
- install -options FeaturePack_tempdir/server/responsefile.txt
- install.bat -options FeaturePack_tempdir/server/responsefile.txt -silent
  Note: You must specify the absolute path to the responsefile.txt file.
When the installation is finished, and depending on which feature pack you have installed, one of the following messages is displayed in the console window:
```
IBM WebSphere Commerce Feature Pack 1 V1.0.0.0 installed successfully.
```
```
IBM WebSphere Commerce Feature Pack installed successfully.
```
Reinstall the interim fixes that you uninstalled in Step 1, making sure that you obtain the appropriate version for the newly-installed feature pack.
Verify your installation.
Review the feature pack installation log:
- WC_installdir/logs/FEPX/install/log.txt
Where X is the number of the feature pack that you have installed.
If the installation failed, see Troubleshooting: WebSphere Commerce feature pack install or uninstall failed.
Enable the features that you want. To enable features, see Enabling features.
If you selected any features to enable, run the check enablement status script to confirm their status.
For more information on the check enablement status script, see Listing the status of WebSphere Commerce features.