Tivoli Workload Automation, Version 9.2

Scanning system prerequisites for Tivoli Workload Scheduler

Before installing or upgrading the product, Tivoli Workload Scheduler automatically runs a scan on your system.

About this task

Having an environment that meets the product system requirements ensures that an installation or upgrade succeeds without any delays or complications.

The scan verifies that:
  • The operating system is supported for the product.
  • On UNIX operating systems, the necessary product libraries are installed.
  • There is enough permanent and temporary disk space to install both the product and its prerequisites.
  • There is enough memory and virtual memory.
Note: The scan verifies only that the environment meets the requirements of Tivoli Workload Scheduler. It does not check the requirements for other components, such as DB2®. To verify the requirements for Installation Manager use the procedure described in Scanning system prerequisites for Installation Manager.
If any of these checks fails, Tivoli Workload Scheduler performs the following action:
For all the components installed by using Installation Manager:
Displays a notification of the requirement that was not met. In this case, stop the installation or the upgrade, analyze the log files, solve the error, and rerun the installation or upgrade. If you are performing an interactive installation, the errors are displayed on the screen. If you are performing a silent installation, the errors are written in the Installation Manager log files. For more information about log files, see Installation Manager wizard, silent installation and uninstallation log files.
For agents
If you specified the stoponcheckprereq parameter, the twsinst script does not proceed. In this case, analyze the log file, solve the error, and rerun the installation or upgrade. The log files are located:
On Windows operating systems:
%TEMP%\TWA\tws92\result.txt
On UNIX and Linux operating systems:
$tmp/TWA/tws92/result.txt
If you did not specify stoponcheckprereq, the twsinst script proceeds. If a problem occurs, an error is displayed, the agent is installed or upgraded, but might not work.

For a detailed list of supported operating systems and product prerequisites, see the System Requirements Document at http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=672&uid=swg27041009.