Introduction
Installation Options
Getting Started

Executing the Scenario
Uninstalling the Scenario

Documentation
Limitations and Restrictions
Installation Requirements
Related Bundles
Technical Support

This scenario demonstrates how Solution Installation and Deployment provides true end-to-end packaging and installation services by using an install engine from IBM business partner InstallShield. The scenario uses an actual ISSI package that was created using the InstallShield design environment and performs an installation for the user to observe.

Installation Options

Installing the ISSI bundle, observing the behavior of the installation panels, and verifying the results of the install comprises the scenario.

Getting Started

The ISSI scenario is started by invoking the executable bundle file. The required Solution Installation runtime is automatically installed if it is not already present on the system.

To execute the scenario, perform the following steps:

1. Double-click the executable bundle file that was downloaded from the Autonomic Computing Toolkit website:
   SI_ISSIScenario_v2-0-0_win32.exe for Windows
   SI_ISSIScenario_v2-0-0_aix.bin for AIX
   SI_ISSIScenario_v2-0-0_linux.bin for Linux
   SI_ISSIScenario_v2-0-0_os400.jar for OS/400
   SI_ISSIScenario_v2-0-0_solaris.bin for Sun Solaris
2. Click Next. If the scenario is already installed on the system, an error message appears. See the section 'Uninstalling the Scenario' of this readme to uninstall the scenario.
3. Accept the terms of the License panel and click Next. The system is checked for minimum operating requirements. A feature panel is then presented where you can select from a list of possible features to install. The options are:
   Typical - all IU's in the package are installed
   ISSI Demo - only the ISSI flash demo is installed
   Custom - a list of IU's is presented and only those selected are installed
4. After making the feature selection, the Install Location panel displays the default install location. Change the install location if the default is not appropriate.
5. Click Next to initiate dependency checking. If all dependencies are satisfied, the Summary Information panel is displayed.
6. Click Install to initiate the installation.
7. On the panel that appears when the installation completes, click Finish.

In order to rerun the scenario, the scenario must first be uninstalled. To uninstall the scenario, issue the following command from the _uninst folder at the installation location:

java -jar uninst.jar

The documentation for the Solution Installation and Deployment Scenarios is provided in a stand alone document in the Autonomic Computing Information  bundle called the Solution Installation and Deployment Scenario Guide.

This guide also references the Autonomic Computing Toolkit Developer's Guide that is also present in the Autonomic Computing Information bundle.

Limitations and Restrictions

This scenario is not available on the OS/400 platform.

User Permissions:
The user invoking the installer should have Administrator  (on windows system)/root (on Unix Systems) permissions.

Java
The installer needs SUN/IBM Java 1.4.2 to successfully install the package. The installer has a bundled IBM JRE 1.4.2. If Java 1.4.2 is not present on  the system, the installer will put the bundled java on the machine and this will be used during installation.

IBM JRE 1.4.2 will be installed at the following location :

Windows : c:/Program Files/IBM/Java142/jre
Solaris : /usr/jre142
Linux : /usr/jre142
AIX : /usr/java142
OS/400 : the installer does not contain a bundled java. The machine should have Java 1.4.2 pre- installed. All OS/400 bundles require PTFs  SF99269 and MF34019 to be installed prior to installing any of the Toolkit bundles.

NOTE: The installed bundles use Java 1.4.2. Please do not delete the java after the package is installed.

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