Websphere 7.0 ND installation

I am in the same boat as Colleen (Windows 2003).

Tom, can you send me your documentation? I have David's, but really need assistance with this in a Windows setting.

Hi John,

Can you please share the steps for COBOL and Bouncy Castle...

Thanks in advance.
Sam

I know that this is a particularly old thread, but to answer brihyn's question about getting the node and server1 to be services under windoze:

Start a command line, navigate to %WAS_HOME%\AppServer\bin
execute
wasservice.exe -add "nodeagent" -serverName "nodeagent" -profilePath "D:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\AppSrv01" Making sure that you specify the profilePath correctly.

Do the same for server1:
wasservice.exe -add "server1" -serverName server1 -profilePath "D:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\AppSrv01" Again, make sure you specify the profilePath correctly.

I've found with Windows, rather than creating a service to start the application server, it's best to go into the properties of the application server, under 'Java and Process Management', click 'Monitoring Policy', and check off 'Automatic Restart', and set 'Node restart state' to 'Running'.  What this will do is when the Node Agent service starts, it will start any JVM's that have 'Node restart state' set to 'Running'.  Also, in the event of a JVM crashing, the node agent will detect that it has gone down and attempt to restart it.

Posted By DavidV on 08/11/2010 07:31 AM
I think you'll find Tom's is much better than mine, but here you go.

David, thanks, that helped a lot.

For the record, I was able to skip a lot of steps, and streamline the process, only because I was working off my own experience before I got stuck (didn't realise IBM HTTP was a separate install from WAS) and took a look at your doc

Basically, what I did to upgrade WAS from 6.1 to 7.0 (on AIX 6.1) is:

Download websphere app server ND from lawson (filenames/links could be different depending on your platform)

IBM® WebSphere® Application Server ND (64bit) Network Deployment V7.0 for AIX on PowerPC 64-bit (1 of 2) C1G15ML.tar.gz https://mylawson.lawson.c...wnload?dwnldID=55686

IBM® WebSphere® Application Server ND (64bit) ND v7.0 for AIX PowerPC 64-bit (2 of 2) C1G2QML.tar.gz https://mylawson.lawson.c...wnload?dwnldID=58288

WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment v7.0 for AIX on PowerPC 64-bit C1G2SML.tar.gz https://mylawson.lawson.c...wnload?dwnldID=58289

IBM® WebSphere® Application Server Installation Factory v7.0, AIX 64-bit C1G2RML.tar.gz https://mylawson.lawson.c...wnload?dwnldID=55685

Not sure if every one of these downloads was required, but I picked the safe side

I ftped them all over to my server, gunzip and untar each of them in the same directory

Got my xwindows all set up with the DISPLAY variable, and went to WAS/, ran the install there to install was.  Then installed the three ear files in the was console (:9060/ibm/console or :9062 if you have to webspheres, etc) as per KB 559370

Then went to IHS/ ran the install there to install http server.  Then created its entry stub in the ibm console, then generated and propagated the plugin.  Now, the http server wouldn't start from ibm console, but I was able to start it manually using apachectl start.  Once it got running, ibm console was able to stop and start it.

Now, before all this, I had also installed java 6 and set up bouncy castle successfully there (kb 550334)  And now I have portal working, so everything seems to be running.  However, I am aware that bouncy castle should also be set up on the was java, and I haven't done this step yet, so I'm curious how everything is working (edit: I actually had to do this step as well).

Update - you DO need to install fixpacks for was!

Parts of lawson will not work with WAS 7.0.0.0 (even though some parts will) for me it was batch job submission, servlet/ioscacherefresh failing. Upgraded to 7.0.0.23 and they work now