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.jsp
"Subclassing and Composition – A Pythonic Tour of Trade-Offs", Hynek Schlawack
Installing web sphere application server v7 on red hat enterprise linux v6.3
1. Installing WebSphere Application
Server v7 on Red Hat Enterprise
Linux v6.3
Dave Hay
IBM Software Services for WebSphere
david_hay@uk.ibm.com // +44 7802 918423
2. Pre-Requisites
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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)
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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
3. Linux Preparation
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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
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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
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IPTables disabled by chkconfig iptables --levels 345 off and service iptables stop
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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.
4. Other Notes
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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
5. Checking that the server has a “pukka”
hostname that's resolvable via ping, and
then preparing to unpack the WAS ND v7
code
6. 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://www01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?
uid=swg21595098
7. Putting the updated browser.sh script in
place ( into /tmp/WAS7/launchpad ) and
getting ready to start the launchpad via
/tmp/WAS7/launchpad.sh
25. 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
26. Manually navigating to the Integration
Solutions Console, adding the self-signed
certificate to the browser's trust store
34. Job Done
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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 )