If you want to install the product silently on multiple Linux workstations, you must first
generate a response file.
Before you begin
- If target workstations are running 32-bit Linux, you must generate the response file
on a 32-bit Linux workstation.
- If target workstations are running 64-bit Linux, you must generate the response file
on a 64-bit Linux workstation.
- Ensure that IBM® Installation
Manager is installed on the workstations that you use to generate
a response file.
- If you downloaded the product as .zip files from IBM Passport Advantage, extract the contents of
those files to a temporary directory.
Procedure
To generate a response file:
- Ensure that IBM Installation
Manager automatically checks for updates to itself.
- Start IBM Installation
Manager.
- Select .
- In the Preferences window, select Updates.
- On the Updates page, select the option Search
for Installation Manager updates. Then, click OK.
- Close IBM Installation
Manager.
- Record the response file by following the steps
in the topic "Recording a response file with Installation Manager".
After you finish step 2 in that topic and Installation Manager
starts, select in the menu bar. On the
Repositories page
of the
Preferences window, follow one of these
steps to add the repository or repositories where the installation
media is located.
- If you want to install both the IBM Data
Studio client and the license activation kit, add the location of
the diskTag.inf files for both the IBM Data Studio client, Version 4.1.0.1 and the IBM InfoSphere® Optim™ Query
Workload Tuner License Activation Kit, Version 4.1.0.1.
- If you want to install only the IBM Data
Studio client, add the location of the diskTag.inf file
for the IBM Data Studio client,
Version 4.1.0.1.
- If you want to install only the license activation kit because
the IBM Data Studio client,
Version 4.1.0.1 is already installed on target machines, add the location
of the diskTag.inf file for the IBM InfoSphere Optim Query Workload Tuner License
Activation Kit, Version 4.1.0.1.
The path to the
diskTag.inf file
for IBM Data Studio client is:
root_path_of_installation_media/disk1/diskTag.inf
The
path to the
diskTag.inf file for the license
activation kit is:
root_path_of_installation_media/oqwt/diskTag.inf
On
the Install Packages page, specify a new package
group.
- Finish the remaining steps in the wizard. When the wizard finishes, the response file is generated
at the location that you specified when you ran the command to generate
the response file.
- If IBM Installation
Manager is not installed on the workstations where you plan to run
the response file, modify the response file by adding information
for installing IBM Installation
Manager.
- Open the response file in a text editor.
- Open the repository.xml file for IBM Installation Manager in a text editor. The path to this file is:
root_path_of_installation_media/disk1/InstallerImage_platform/
- In the repository.xml file, copy
the opening <offering> tag. That tag looks
similar to this: <offering id='com.ibm.cic.agent' version='1.6.0.20120831_1216'>
- In the response file, create a new line after the opening <install> tag.
- Paste the copied <offering> tag
at the new line, so that the tag is the first entry after the <install> tag.
- Before the closing angle bracket in the <offering> tag,
type a space and a forward slash.
- In the offering tag, replace the single quotation marks
with double quotation marks.
- Save and close the response file.
What to do next
Transfer the response file to a Linux workstation where you want to install
the product.
- If you generated the response file on a 32-bit Linux workstation, transfer the file to a 32-bit Linux workstation.
- If you generated the response file on a 64-bit Linux workstation, transfer the file to a 64-bit Linux workstation.
After you transfer the response file,
run
it on the target Linux workstation.