Preparing for installation

Physical and electronic packages are available for IBM Integration Bus. DVDs are supplied in the physical package, and electronic images are available from IBM Passport Advantage®.

For more information about available packages and their contents, see Installation packages. If you have ordered the product for electronic delivery from IBM Passport Advantage, check that you have downloaded all the images that you need for all components and all platforms.

Find out how to access, download, and extract product images in Accessing DVDs.

For instructions about downloading and applying service updates, see Applying service.

• The product readme file readme.html contains the latest available information.
• The information center describes planning and preparation on all platforms.
• This information center describes installation procedures for all components on all distributed platforms.
• The Program Directory for IBM Integration Bus for z/OS describes installation procedures for all components on z/OS®.

Find out how to get these documents in Finding the latest information.

The following information provides a minimum level of detail about IBM Integration Bus components; read Choosing what to install to find out more about the components.

• The IBM Integration Toolkit. You must install this component on at least one computer. You can install this component only on Windows 32-bit, Windows 64-bit, Linux on x86, and Linux on x86-64.

  Use the IBM Integration Toolkit to create, manage, deploy, and delete message flows and associated resources in a development environment.

• The IBM Integration Explorer. You can install this component only on Windows 32-bit, Windows 64-bit, Linux on x86, and Linux on x86-64.

  Use the IBM Integration Explorer to administer your brokers in a production environment.

• The Integration Bus component. You must install this component on at least one computer.

  You can create multiple brokers on a single computer. Deploy your message flow resources to one or more brokers to process your application messages.

1. Check that your target computers meet the initial hardware, storage, and software requirements.

   The requirements vary depending on what computers you want to install IBM Integration Bus on, and what components you are installing; read the details in Hardware requirements and Operating system requirements.

   The supported hardware and software environments are updated occasionally. To view the latest requirements, see the product requirements website:

   www.ibm.com/software/integration/wbimessagebroker/requirements/

2. Complete the appropriate tasks for your computer to set up security and UNIX kernel configuration, and get ready to access the installation media.

   All these tasks are described in Preparing the system.

3. Check that your user ID has the required authority to complete installation:
   • AIX® systems: Use the user ID root to perform the preparatory tasks that are described in Security on Linux and UNIX systems. When these steps have been completed, a user without root authorities can complete the installation.
   • Linux and other UNIX systems: Your user ID must have root authorities to perform the preparatory tasks that are described in Security on Linux and UNIX systems. When these steps have been completed, a user without root authorities can complete the installation.
   • Windows systems: Your user ID must be a member of the group Administrators.
   • z/OS systems: Use a user ID that has suitable RACF® privileges to perform the installation.

   This information is a summary only; more details are provided in Setting up security.

The following table lists the programs that are available.

IBM Integration Bus requires other software products to work successfully. The order in which you install these products is not important. However, you must install all required products before you can configure and start IBM Integration Bus components.

The following table gives a summary of these requirements.

Full details of all these requirements are provided in Additional software requirements:

• For web browsers, see Browsers.
• For details of supported versions of WebSphere MQ, see WebSphere MQ.
• For more information about JREs, see JRE.

1. To create a minimum broker domain, install the IBM Integration Toolkit and the Integration Bus component on a single computer. Because the IBM Integration Toolkit is required to complete this task, you must choose a Linux on x86, Linux on x86-64, or Windows computer.
2. Use the Default Configuration wizard, which you can start from the IBM Integration Toolkit, to create the required components after installation.
3. Use this broker domain to create message flow resources, verify your installation, investigate how the product works, and explore the product samples.

The verification process is described in Verifying your IBM Integration Bus installation.

When you install IBM Integration Bus and create brokers, they are configured with an operation mode set either to developer (if you have installed the Developer Edition) or advanced (all other editions). You must configure your brokers to conform to the license that you have purchased. Therefore, if you have purchased the Standard Edition, Express Edition, Remote Adapter Deployment, or the license for Scale mode, you must set the operation mode of all your brokers to the correct value.

See Configuring your brokers to conform to your license for more details.

If new message flow nodes are delivered in a fix pack, they show in the IBM Integration Toolkit, but are not enabled in the runtime broker environment. If you deploy a BAR file that includes a message flow that uses a new node, the deployment fails.

If you want to use and test the new nodes, you can enable them on an individual broker basis. See Configuring your brokers to conform to your license for more details.