This document outlines the installation process for WebSphere Application Server V7 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux V6.3, detailing pre-requisites and preparation steps. It includes specific configurations such as disabling SELinux and iptables, as well as installing necessary libraries. The installation is completed by ensuring a successful installation verification test and addressing issues with accessing the administrative console.

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

8. And heeeeeeeer's Launchpad ...

9. Welcome ...

10. This time, we're only choosing to install
WAS

11. Accepting the license agreement ....
( having read it, of course )

12. Noting, and ignoring, the fact that the
installer does not formally support Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6.3

13. Choosing to install the sample applications
( even though, for this example, we're only
installing a Deployment Manager node )

14. Taking the default, for Linux, path

15. Choosing to install a Management
environment only

16. Choosing to create a Deployment Manager
profile

17. Choosing to secure the cell using
Administrative Security ( for the record, the
password for wasadmin is passw0rd !! )

18. We're not using Centralised Installation
Manager or WebSphere Installation
Factory here

19. Almost ready to go ...

20. Now definitely ready to go ...

21. And we're now installed ...

22. Scrolling down the dialogue, we can see
that First Steps will launch, by default

23. And here's First Steps, let's run Installation
Verification

24. IVT completed without problems

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

27. Adding an Exception ( in this case )

28. And so on

29. Here's the ISC

30. Having logged in as wasadmin, this is
what we see

31. Now back to the command prompt, to
check WAS out

32. Note that we've only installed version
7.0.0.0, we would always add a fix pack or
two

33. And re-running IVT, this time from the
command line

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 )