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Installation/Migration/Upgrae

 

 

 

-         Migration guide for v601

 

-         Installation of WID Base

 

-         Applying fixpack

 

o       Copy or map the fix pack binaries

 

o       Start “Rational Product Updater”.

 

o       Select Preferences, Update Sites and browse to the media containing the fixpack files click ‘OK’.

 

o       Select ‘Find Updates’, the media will then be searched for applicable updates.

 

o       Select install updates. Select “accept. . .” and click ‘OK’.

 

-         Applying interim fix

 

o       Follow the above steps if you have downloaded the ifix or follow the steps below to update the WID from IBM site

 

o       Start “Rational Product Updater”.

 

o       From the File Menu, Select ‘Preferences’ and ‘Update Sites’, then click ‘Restore Default’.

 

o       From the File Menu, Select ‘Preferences’ and change ‘Proxy Settings’ if you have a proxy server (ex: host: <proxy-server> and port: 8080)

 

o       Select ‘Find Updates’, the media will then be searched for applicable updates.

 

o       Select the updates you’d like installed from the resulting list.

 

o       Select install updates. On the following screen, select “accept. . .” and click ‘OK’.

 

-         Applying fixpack to WPS in WID

 

o       Locate the WPS fixpack binaries from WPS support site or from your administrator

 

o       Copy the updateinstaller folder from fixpack binaries into WPS runtime installation directory (ex: D:\IBM\WID\runtimes\bi_v6)

 

o       Start the update installer – update.exe from the extracted folder

 

o       Apply fixes in the following order by re-launching the wizard after each update

 

         6.0.2-WS-WAS-<platform/architecture>-FP0000009.pak (WebSphere Application Server V6.02 Fix Pack 9)

 

         6.0.2-WS-WASJavaSDK-<platform/architecture>-FP0000009.pak (WebSphere 6.0.2.9 Java SDK Fix Pack). Note: Installing the SDK is a two-step process. The installation panels provide detailed information about the process.

 

         The seven included WebSphere Application Server iFixes (in any order):

 

        6.0.2.5-WS-WAS-IFPK21663.pak

 

        6.0.2.7-WS-WAS-IFPK23079.pak

 

        6.0.2.7-WS-WAS-IFPK23093.pak

 

        6.0.2.7-WS-WAS-IFPK23267.pak

 

        6.0.2.9-WS-WAS-IFPK20940.pak

 

        6.0.2.9-WS-WAS-IFPK21246.pak

 

        6.0.2-WS-WAS-IFPK23696.pak

 

         6.0.1-WS-WPS-ESB-<platform/architecture>-FP0000002.pak (WebSphere Process Server V6.0.1 Fix Pack 2)

 

-         Installing WID 602 along with the Monitor Toolkit v602

 

o       Extract or make sure that all the binaries related to WID and MTK along with DB2 are copied or made available (MTK and DB2 files have to be properly aligned)

 

o       Click the launchpad.exe from disk1 folder under WID602 to install WID

 

o       Make sure that the installation directory is small (ex: d:\ibm\wid)

 

o       Select integrated test environment along with the IDE

 

o       If required, select the ESB profile in addition to WPS profile

 

o       Make sure that all the 4 steps of WID install are completed successfully

 

o       Create db2admin as part of Administrators and db2admins groups

 

o       Create another user for WPS (ex: admin or wps) as part of Administrators group

 

o       Above users can be created by the launchpad during installation

 

o       Click setup.exe from montoolkit folder to start installing the MTK

 

o       Select IDE and ITE – integrated test environment (monitor)

 

o       WID, Monitor and MME installation directories can not be changed

 

o       Change the DB2 home (ex: d:\ibm\sqllib)

 

o       Enter DB2 and WPS user names and passwords (created earlier)

 

o       Review the summary of components to be installed

 

o       DB2 is installed first and WPS profile named wbmonitor is created next

 

o       Monitor install wizard is displayed with summary to be installed

 

o       Vpdexport tool is installed at C:\Program Files\Common Files\InstallShield\Universal\Common\Gen2\_vpddb

 

o       Monitor database and other monitor components are created

 

o       Launchpad checks the installation status

 

o       Make sure that both the installation steps (IDE and ITE) are successful

 

o       Start/restart the WID and verify that the monitor server is added to servers

 

-         Information Integration for BPEL on WebSphere Process Server: An add-on to WebSphere Integration Developer that makes it simple and efficient to access relational database systems, using SQL, from within business processes (from alphaworks)