installing web sphere application server v7 on red hat enterprise linux v6.3
DESCRIPTION
I wrote this deck as an as-is guide for an IBM colleague who was looking to install WAS v7 on RHEL 6.3. Please note that this deck is provided as-is, and it does not replace the official installation guidance and materials in the WAS Information Center - http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v7r0/index.jspTRANSCRIPT
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Installing WebSphere Application Server v7 on Red Hat Enterprise
Linux v6.3
Dave HayIBM Software Services for WebSphere
[email protected] // +44 7802 918423
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Pre-Requisites
● Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 x86-64 – vanilla installation, not patched
$ uname -a
Linux vinny.uk.ibm.com 2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jun 13 18:24:36 EDT 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.3 (Santiago)
● WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V7.0 for Linux on x86, 64-bit
C1G35ML.tar.gz
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27013044
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Linux Preparation
● Preparing Linux systems for installation
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v7r0/topic/com.ibm.websphere.installation.nd.doc/info/ae/ae/tins_linuxsetup.html
● Preparing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 for installation
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v7r0/topic/com.ibm.websphere.installation.nd.doc/info/ae/ae/tins_linuxsetup_rhel6.html
Specifically: -
– Disabled SELinux by setting SELINUX=disabled in /etc/selinux/config
– IPTables disabled by chkconfig iptables --levels 345 off and service iptables stop
– Used yum to install pre-requisite libraries including compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-69, libXmu-1.0.5-1 and libXft-2.1.13-4.1 etc.
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Other Notes
● Installing as root – not usually recommended● Installing via GUI – often not an option,
especially on client sites● Not installing fixes/fixpacks – typically, this
would be the next logical step● Not creating additional WebSphere profiles● RHEL is running on VMware Fusion 5 – almost
certainly irrelevant
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Checking that the server has a “pukka” hostname that's resolvable via ping, and then preparing to unpack the WAS ND v7
code
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Code is now unpacked. Comparing and contrasting the modifed browser.sh script – this needs to be updated to take account of
Firefox 10 as per this Technote - http://www-
01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21595098
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Putting the updated browser.sh script in place ( into /tmp/WAS7/launchpad ) and getting ready to start the launchpad via
/tmp/WAS7/launchpad.sh
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And heeeeeeeer's Launchpad ...
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Welcome ...
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This time, we're only choosing to install WAS
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Accepting the license agreement .... ( having read it, of course )
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Noting, and ignoring, the fact that the installer does not formally support Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6.3
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Choosing to install the sample applications ( even though, for this example, we're only installing a Deployment Manager node )
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Taking the default, for Linux, path
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Choosing to install a Management environment only
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Choosing to create a Deployment Manager profile
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Choosing to secure the cell using Administrative Security ( for the record, the password for wasadmin is passw0rd !! )
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We're not using Centralised Installation Manager or WebSphere Installation
Factory here
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Almost ready to go ...
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Now definitely ready to go ...
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And we're now installed ...
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Scrolling down the dialogue, we can see that First Steps will launch, by default
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And here's First Steps, let's run Installation Verification
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IVT completed without problems
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When we try and launch the Administrative Console from First Steps, this is what we see – solution is to amend the First Steps browser script ( fbrowser.sh ) as per the
previous step – Slide 6
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Manually navigating to the Integration Solutions Console, adding the self-signed
certificate to the browser's trust store
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Adding an Exception ( in this case )
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And so on
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Here's the ISC
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Having logged in as wasadmin, this is what we see
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Now back to the command prompt, to check WAS out
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Note that we've only installed version 7.0.0.0, we would always add a fix pack or
two
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And re-running IVT, this time from the command line
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Job Done
● This concludes the exercise – WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment v7 has been successfully installed onto a “vanilla” installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux x6.3 ( x86-64 )