Running IBM Installation Manager

IBM® Installation Manager installs the IBM MobileFirst™ Platform Foundation files and tools on your computer.

IBM Installation Manager helps you install, update, modify, and uninstall packages on your computer. The installer for MobileFirst Server does not support rollback operations and updates from one version to another cannot be undone.

The way that you use IBM Installation Manager to upgrade from a previous release depends on your upgrade path.

You can use IBM Installation Manager to install IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation in several different modes, including single-user and multi-user installation modes.

You can also use silent installations to deploy IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation to multiple systems, or systems without a GUI interface.

For more information about Installation Manager, see the IBM Installation Manager user documentation.

Note: IBM Installation Manager is sometimes referred to as IBM Rational® Enterprise Deployment on the eXtreme Leverage, Passport Advantage® sites, and on the distribution disks. The file names for the images take the form IBM Rational Enterprise Deployment <version number><hardware platform> <language>; for example, IBM Rational Enterprise Deployment V1.6.3.1Windows Multilingual.

Installation of the Application Center with IBM Installation Manager

Run IBM Installation Manager. If you plan to install the Application Center with IBM Installation Manager, verify that the user who runs IBM Installation Manager has the privileges that are described in File system prerequisites, then see Installing and configuring the Application Center and install the Application Center before you proceed to the installation of MobileFirst Operations Console. For more information, see Installing the MobileFirst Server administration.

If you plan to install the Application Center by running Ant tasks, or manually, answer No to the question Install IBM Application Center.