IBM Installation Manager
The Operations Center uses IBM® Installation Manager, which is an installation program that can use remote or local software repositories to install or update many IBM products.
If the required version of IBM Installation Manager is not already installed, it is automatically installed or upgraded when you install the Operations Center. It must remain installed on the system so that the Operations Center can be updated or uninstalled later as needed.
- Offering
- An installable unit of a software product.
The Operations Center offering contains all of the media that IBM Installation Manager requires to install the Operations Center.
- Package
- The group of software components
that are required to install
an offering. The Operations Center package contains the following components:
- IBM Installation Manager installation program
- Operations Center offering
- Package group
- A set of
packages that share a common parent directory.
The default package group for the Operations Center package is IBM Tivoli Storage Manager.
- Repository
- A remote or local storage area for data and other application
resources.
The Operations Center package is stored in a repository on IBM Fix Central.
- Shared resources directory
- A directory that contains software files or plug-ins that are
shared by packages.
IBM Installation Manager stores installation-related files in the shared resources directory, including files that are used for rolling back to a previous version of the Operations Center.