Headless install environment

sbates wrote:

It seems that the install manager for 2.0 requires a UI (launches
Firefox), which is hampering my deployment to a server a thousand
miles away. I've tried exporting the X display, and while Firefox
does start it never loads any content.

I'd prefer to use the install manager for future migration purposes,
unless the unzip method will always support migration (though perhaps
with greater effort).

Any workarounds, or reassurances about unzip deployment?

That is launchpad.exe/sh command which shows a HTML page with a menu of
options. But I think you can go directly to Installation Manager and add
the local repositories manually. In Windows download is at
\rtc\win32\install.exe so for your Unix environment should be something
similar.

Hope this helps,

Chemi.

Chemi wrote:

sbates wrote:
It seems that the install manager for 2.0 requires a UI (launches
Firefox), which is hampering my deployment to a server a thousand
miles away. I've tried exporting the X display, and while Firefox
does start it never loads any content.

I'd prefer to use the install manager for future migration purposes,
unless the unzip method will always support migration (though perhaps
with greater effort).

Any workarounds, or reassurances about unzip deployment?


That is launchpad.exe/sh command which shows a HTML page with a menu of
options. But I think you can go directly to Installation Manager and add
the local repositories manually. In Windows download is at
\rtc\win32\install.exe so for your Unix environment should be something
similar.

Hope this helps,

Chemi.

In parallel, I forgot to mention that Installation Manager supports
headless mode (silent install):
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/install/v1r2/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.silentinstall12.doc/topics/c_silent_roadmap.html

Regards,

Chemi.

In parallel, I forgot to mention that Installation Manager supports headless mode (silent install):
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/install/v1r2/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.silentinstall12.doc/topics/c_silent_roadmap.html

Thanks very much Chemi, I neglected to search for "silent install". I'll give that a shot.

It turns out no matter what I do I get a batch of "Gtk", "GLib" and "Gdk" errors dumped to the console (even after setting the DISPLAY var). I copied the install-server.xml file to install.xml, then ran "./install -silent -installAll", and it fails with the mentioned errors. (That's the only command that doesn't generate other exceptions beyond the window errors.)

It's extremely frustrating to say the least that a silent install tries to create a window, but that's not Jazz's fault.

Any other ideas?

It turns out no matter what I do I get a batch of "Gtk", "GLib" and "Gdk" errors dumped to the console (even after setting the DISPLAY var). I copied the install-server.xml file to install.xml, then ran "./install -silent -installAll", and it fails with the mentioned errors. (That's the only command that doesn't generate other exceptions beyond the window errors.)

It's extremely frustrating to say the least that a silent install tries to create a window, but that's not Jazz's fault.

Any other ideas?

I believe the problem is you are not specifying the silent-install.ini or user-silent-install.ini with your command, which adds the -nosplash option (among others) to suppress the IM splash screen (as I recall that is needed in addition to -silent).

I highly recommend that you take a look at the README.txt file, which can be found in the README directory (under the subdirectory for your desired language -- e.g. en for english). Take a look at section 3.2 "Linux Installation - Command-Line Only". This includes detailed instructions on how to invoke the installation manager to silently install all of the various offerings associated with the product (client, server, ...).

Hope that helps!

-James
Jazz Team

I believe the problem is you are not specifying the silent-install.ini or user-silent-install.ini with your command, which adds the -nosplash option (among others) to suppress the IM splash screen (as I recall that is needed in addition to -silent).

Thanks James, that worked just fine.