Use a response file to install, modify, update, or uninstall IBM® Connections without user interaction.
Before you begin
You can create a response file by using IBM Installation Manager or by editing the file
that is provided with the product. For more information about editing
the file, see the Default response file topic.
Ensure
that IBM Installation Manager
is installed. For more information, see the Installing IBM Connections topic.
To
ensure that the response file captures the details of your SSL certificates,
start IBM WebSphere® Application Server.
The
default location of a response file that you generate is the connections_root/silentResponseFile directory.
Instead
of creating your own response file, you can edit the file that is
provided with the product. The file is in the IBM_Connections_set-up/IBM_Connections_install/IBMConnections directory.
However, this default file is applicable only for installation. The
response files for modifying, updating, rolling back, and uninstalling
the product are based on the response file for installation. Before
you create a response file for any of those procedures, you must first
run the silent installation procedure.
For more information
about creating response files with IBM Installation
Manager, go to the Recording a response file with Installation Manager webpage.
About this task
This task describes the procedure to generate a response
file for the following procedures:
- Installing IBM Connections
- Modifying an existing installation by adding or removing IBM Connections applications
- Updating an existing installation by installing a fix pack
- Rolling back an update
- Uninstalling IBM Connections
For each procedure, run a simulated instance of the IBM Installation Manager and record
your input to a response file. Later, you can run a silent command
that uses this response file as an input parameter.
Default
response files on AIX or Linux:
- Install
- LC.rsp
- Modify - Add
- LC_modify_add.rsp
- Modify - Remove
- LC_modify_remove.rsp
- Update
- LC_update.rsp
- Roll back
- LC_rollback.rsp
- Uninstall
- LC_uninstall.rsp
To create a response file, complete the following
steps:
Procedure
- Open a command prompt and go to the IM_root/eclipse directory.
- Ensure that the IBM_Connections_set-up/IBM_Connections_install/IM/OS/skip directory
allows write access, where IBM_Connections_set-up is
the directory or media where the IBM Connections
installation files are located, and OS represents
your operating system.
- Run the command to record a response file. This command
uses the -skipInstall agentDataLocation argument, which records the
installation commands without installing IBM Connections.
Substitute your own file name and path for the response file. Verify
that the file paths that you enter exist because IBM Installation Manager does not create directories
for the response file.
- AIX and Linux: ./IBMIM -record /response_files/install_product.xml
-skipInstall agentDataLocation
- Microsoft Windows: IBMIM.exe -record responseFile.rsp
-skipInstall agentDataLocation
where agentDataLocation is the file path
to the skip directory, which stores IBM Installation Manager data files.
Note:
- The -log option is not available when recording a response file.
- Use quotation marks around file paths that contain spaces.
- You can use the same agentDataLocation parameter in the next recording
session to update, modify, roll back or uninstall IBM Connections. However, if you want to record
a new installation, you must specify a new agentDataLocation parameter.
- Enter the required information in the IBM Installation Manager.
- To install a new deployment, open , and enter the path
to the IBM Connections repository;
for example: C:\build\\IBM_Connections_Install\IBMConnections.
Click Install and enter the required information
as if you were installing the product. For more information, see the Installing
IBM Connections topic.
- To update an existing installation, click Update and
enter the required information.
- To roll back an update, click Rollback and
enter the required information
- To uninstall IBM Connections,
click Uninstall and enter the required information.
For more information, see the Uninstalling a deployment topic.
Note: In the IBM Connections Content Manager panel, validation
can be skipped in case the environment does not have the real FileNet
installation binaries. The administrator must edit the response file
manually with the following correct paths after generation:
- <data key='user.ccm.ce.installer.path' value='xxx'/>
- <data key='user.ccm.fncs.installer.path' value='xxx'/>
- <data key='user.ccm.ceclient.installer.path' value='xxx'/>
- Close the IBM Installation Manager window.
- Confirm that the new response file is present.
What to do next
Use the response file to silently install, modify, update,
roll back, or uninstall IBM Connections. If
you are running IBM Installation
Manager as a non-administrator and plan to use the response file to
install the product on another user's system, you must change the
file paths in your response file from absolute paths to relative paths.