HCL Workload Automation, Version 9.4

Performing a silent installation of HCL Workload Automation and its prerequisites and a Dynamic Workload Console and its prerequisites

Use the appropriate response file in XML format to prepare for a silent installation.

Before you begin

You must install Installation Manager before you perform a silent installation of the HCL Workload Automation package. Run a check against your system to verify if it meets the product system requirements for a silent installation. See Checking system prerequisites for the master domain manager and Checking system prerequisites for the Dynamic Workload Console

For detailed information about how to install Installation Manager, see the Installation Manager documentation.

About this task

You can silently install the HCL Workload Automation package and the Dynamic Workload Console package at the same time as their prerequisites packages, by using a global response file that is provided with the installation eImages in the \response_files\ directory. For a list of response files, see Table 1.

The silent installation process:

Assigns the correct order to the package installation.
Manages the prerequisites package installation.

The response file contains one section for each prerequisite package that you have to install, one section related to HCL Workload Automation, and one section related to the Dynamic Workload Console package installation.

Select the appropriate response file, determine the eImages you need to download and extract, and then customize the properties in the response file including the settings for the repository location of the eImages before performing the silent installation.

Important: During the silent installation, if the location specified for a repository is not found, then correct the location and before rerunning the installation, clear the repository locations from IBM Installation Manager.

Open the Preferences panel in Installation Manager.
From the Repositories page, select and remove the repository location in error.
Correct the repository location in the response file.
Rerun the silent installation.

Perform the following steps:

Copy the response file to a local directory.
Edit the following sections:
Dynamic Workload Console and HCL Workload Automation prerequisites packages sections:

If you do not want to install the Dynamic Workload Console, comment the Dynamic Workload Console prerequisites section. For more information about how to type in this section, see the response file properties description provided as commented text or see the prerequisites product documentation.

Dynamic Workload Console section:

If you do not want to install the Dynamic Workload Console, comment this section. For more information about how to complete the Dynamic Workload Console section properties, see The Dynamic Workload Console response file properties.

HCL Workload Automation section:

For more information about how to complete the HCL Workload Automation section properties, see The HCL Workload Automation response file properties.

Note: Ensure that all the passwords that you specify in the response file are encrypted as described in Encrypting user passwords for response files.
Save the file with your changes.
Open a command-line prompt.
Go to the Installation Manager tools directory.
The default tools directory is:
On Windows operating systems

C:\Program Files\IBM\Installation Manager\eclipse\tools

On UNIX and Linux operating systems

/opt/IBM/InstallationManager/eclipse/tools
Run the following command:
On Windows operating systems
```
 imcl.exe input <local_dir>\response_file.xml 
-log <local_dir>\log_file.xml 
-acceptLicense
```
On UNIX and Linux operating systems
```
 ./imcl input /<local_dir>/response_file.xml 
-log /<local_dir>/log_file.xml 
-acceptLicense
```
where
- The response_file.xml is the name of the response file to be used for the installation.
- The log_file is the name of the log file that records the result of the silent installation execution.
Note: For more information about the Installation Manager silent installation command and Installation Manager silent log files, see the Installation Manager information center.

Table 1 lists the response files and the types of installation each file performs by operating systems:

Table 1. Global installation response files
Type of installation	Response file to use
Installing on Windows operating systems
WebSphere Application Server, Jazz for Service Management extension for WebSphere, HCL Workload Automation and Dynamic Workload Console.	`IWS94_FRESH_FULL_MDM_DWC_WIN.xml`
Installing on UNIX operating systems
WebSphere Application Server, Jazz for Service Management extension for WebSphere, HCL Workload Automation and Dynamic Workload Console.	`IWS94_FRESH_FULL_MDM_DWC_UNIX.xml`

After a successful installation, perform one of the following configuration tasks, depending on the type of agent you installed: