As promised last time around, I have spent more time documenting and scripting the installation of WebSphere Portal 8 on Linux, and have overcome many of the challenges that I saw then, partly because I paid more attention to the documentation, including the WP8 Wiki: -
A new version of IBM Installation Manager is available. If you do not update the Installation Manager you will not be allowed to install some packages that require the new version of the Installation Manager.
Do you want to update the Installation Manager? Running Installation Manager version 1.5.2 (internal version 1.5.2000.20120223_0907). Found Installation Manager version 1.5.3 (internal version 1.5.3000.20120531_1954).
This should take 30 seconds or so, and then return back a nice friendly installation complete message :-) Of course, this is JUST recording the response file, not performing the actual installation
<result> <error uid="CRIMA1154E"> Error installing. </error> <error> The silent installation process does not support installing packages that are contained on multiple media discs. </error> </result>
After much faffing around, I looked at one of the provided sample response file - /mnt/hgfs/WP8/Setup/responsefiles/enable_standalone_full.xml. : -
<!-- Fill in the locations of the WAS and Portal installation repositories --> <!-- that are accessible from the system where the install will be run. --> <!-- You can fill in the repositories separately, or you may point to --> <!-- a consolidated repository that defines all products. --> <!-- If using separate repositories, be sure to list them in this order: --> <!-- repository location='/repository/path/for/WAS' --> <!-- repository location='/repository/path/for/WAS-fixes' --> <!-- repository location='/repository/path/for/Server Portal' --> <!-- repository location='/repository/path/for/Enable Portal' -->
Installed 8.0.0.3-WS-WAS-TFPM59935_8.0.3.20120309_1201 to the /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer directory. Installed 8.0.0.3-WS-WAS-TFPM60670_8.0.3.20120319_1949 to the /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer directory. Installed 8.0.0.3-WS-WAS-TFPM61934_8.0.3.20120409_1230 to the /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer directory. Installed 8.0.0.3-WS-WASProd-TFPM60134_8.0.3.20120312_1656 to the /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer directory. Installed com.ibm.websphere.ND.v80_8.0.3.20120320_0536 to the /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer directory. Installed com.ibm.websphere.PORTAL.SERVER.v80_8.0.0.20120421_0828 to the /opt/IBM/WebSphere/PortalServer directory. Installed com.ibm.websphere.PORTAL.ENABLE.v80_8.0.0.20120421_0909 to the /opt/IBM/WebSphere/PortalServer directory. WARNING: Problem at line 3, column 35: The "acceptLicense" attribute has been deprecated. Use "-acceptLicense" command line option to accept license agreements.
with the same warning repeated in install_WP8.log: -
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <result> </result> tail: install_WP8.log: file truncated <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <result> <warning> Problem at line 3, column 35: The "acceptLicense" attribute has been deprecated. Use "-acceptLicense" command line option to accept license agreements. </warning> </result>
In the meantime, Portal is working perfectly, and the problem that I'd seen previously ( where the New... button doesn't appear in WCM ) has gone away.
For the record, the missing button was because I'd installed WebSphere Portal Server rather than Enable, meaning that WCM wasn't properly installed.
If anyone wants to know how I solved it, please let me know - I've got a PDF that walks through the process of adding WCM to an existing Portal Server installation.
Final point - unlike last time around the WPVersionInfo.sh command works perfectly.
For the record, this is what I now have: -
$ /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/bin/versionInfo.sh
Name IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment Version 8.0.0.3 ID ND Build Level cf031212.03 Build Date 3/20/12 Package com.ibm.websphere.ND.v80_8.0.3.20120320_0536 Architecture x86-64 (64 bit) Installed Features IBM 64-bit SDK for Java, Version 6 EJBDeploy tool for pre-EJB 3.0 modules Embeddable EJB container Stand-alone thin clients and resource adapters
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Note to Self - Java Runtime Environment and Mozilla Firefox on 64-bit Red Hat Linux
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Slow but steady success with Oracle 11g R2
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