Use the IBM® WebSphere® Application Server
Update Installer to apply interim fixes to the installed WebSphere Application Server. Be sure to
complete this task on every server where you installed WebSphere Application Server 7.
Procedure
- If your browser changed the downloaded fixes package from *.pak file
to *.zip, rename the file to *.pak before
proceeding.
- Ensure that you stop all running processes as described
in Starting and stopping servers running on WebSphere Application Server.
- Stop all Java™ processes
that use the IBM Software Developer
Kit provided with WebSphere Application
Server, as described in Installing and uninstalling interim fixes and fix
packs.
- Start the Update Installer by running the following command:
- Linux™:
./update.sh
- Windows™:
update.bat
- At the Welcome screen, click Next.
- Browse to the location of the product that you want updated.
- Accept the default to Install maintenance and
click Next.
- At the prompt, enter the directory name containing the Sametime update packages
(for example,
maintenance
), and then click Next.
- When the installer displays name and version of the product
to be updated, Next.
- At the Confirmation screen, verify
the fixes that will be applied, and click Next.
- When the installation finishes, check the installation
log to verify that the install is successful.
Linux: The log is stored in the
following location: was_install_root/logs/update/maintenance_package.instal.
Windows: The log is stored in
the following location: was_install_root\logs\update\maintenance_package.instal.
- Start WebSphere Application
as described in Starting and stopping servers running on WebSphere Application Server.
Results
To see the complete list of fixes installed on the server,
create a file called version.txt by running the versionInfo
command
from the correct location according to platform:
From this Linux location: was_install_root/bin
directory
Run this Linux command: ./versionInfo.sh
-maintenancePackages > version.txt
From this Windows location: was_install_root\bin
directory
Run this Windows command: versionInfo.bat
-maintenancePackages > version.txt