Running the installation

Use an installation script to install System Automation for Multiplatforms.

The installation script runs the following actions:
  • A complete prerequisite check to verify that all prerequisites are available and at the required level. If your system does not pass the check, the installation does not start, and you must provide the missing prerequisites before you restart the installation. Refer to Checking prerequisites
  • Install System Automation for Multiplatforms, including the end-to-end automation adapter.

To avoid having to restart the installation, you can start the prerequisites check separately before you begin the installation.

If an IBM Reliable Scalable Cluster Technology (RSCT) peer domain exists, ensure that the node on which you are running the script is offline in the domain. Otherwise, the installation is canceled.

Install the product, including the automation adapter:

  1. Log in as root, or with equivalent authority.

  2. If you downloaded the .tar file from the Internet, extract it: 
    tar -xvf <tar file>

    If you received the product on a DVD, mount the DVD and change to the directory where the DVD is mounted.

  3. Enter the following command:
    • Linux®: cd SAM4100MPLinux
    • AIX®: cd SAM4100MPAIX
  4. Run the installation script: 
    ./installSAM

    Typically, you do not need to specify any of the options that are available for the installSAM command. The default installation installs the packages for all supported languages. If you do not want to install all languages and want only the English language, you can specify the --nonls option. For a detailed description of the installSAM command, see installSAM.

  5. Read the information in the license agreement and the license information that is displayed. You can scroll forward line by line with the enter key, and page by page with the space bar, which is similar to the "more" option in UNIX. When you scrolled to the bottom of the license information file and you want to accept the terms of the license agreement, type 'y'. Any other input cancels the installation.

    The installation is also canceled if no license file is found.

  6. After you accept the license agreement, the installation program checks prerequisites to verify that they are available and at the required level.

    If your system does not pass the check, the installation does not start, and you must provide the missing prerequisites before you restart the installation.

    Information about the results of the prerequisites check is available in the log file /tmp/installSAM.<#>.log.

    If your system passed the check, the product, including the automation adapter, is installed.

  7. Check the following log file for information about the installation: 
    /tmp/installSAM.<#>.log
    The hash symbol <#> is a number; the highest number identifies the most recent log file.
    The entries in the log file have the following prefixes:
    prereqSAM
    Entries that were written during the prerequisites check.
    installSAM
    Entries that were written during the installation of the product.

  8. To find out which packages were installed, inspect /tmp/installSAM.<#>.log, where <#> is the highest number in the list of logs you find.