Start the Installer, Provide General Information, and Choose the Products to Install
As you go through the Software AG Installer, you will be asked for various types of information, such as product license files and database connection parameters. Scan the pages in this chapter that show the installer panels you will encounter, and gather the information you will need before starting the installer.
Read the requirements in Using the Software AG Installer (for example, the requirement to create a user account that has the proper privileges for Windows and that is non-root for UNIX). Follow the instructions in that guide to start the installer and provide general information such as proxy server, release to install, installation directory, and how to use the product selection tree.
Important: | Unless otherwise stated for a specific product, do not install products from this release into a Software AG directory that contains products from any other release. Unless otherwise stated for a specific product, you cannot mix products from different releases in the same installation directory; if you do so, you will experience problems or be unable to access functionality. |
On the product selection tree, select the products to install.
If you select packages for
Integration Server, the installer will copy the packages into a package repository in the
Integration Server installation. “Packages” include the products listed under
Integration Server in the tree as well as products that are hosted by
Integration Server but listed elsewhere, such as adapters, eStandards Modules, and
CloudStreams Server. The installer will also create a server instance and will ask whether to install all packages in the package repository on the server instance. On the language pack selection tree, the installer will copy all language packs you select into the package repository and will always install them on the server instance. After installation, you can create additional server instances and install packages and language packs from the package repository on those server instances and the server instance created during installation. For instructions, see the
webMethods Integration Server Administrator’s Guide.
If you install
Integration Agent, the installer creates a server instance named “default” in the
Software AG_directory /IntegrationServer/instances directory and installs
CloudStreams Server on that server instance. Do not install any other product or package on
Integration Agent.
If you install
My webMethods Server, and later install
Business Console,
Task Engine, or
My webMethods user interfaces in a separate run of the installer, those components are installed on all
My webMethods Server instances in the target installation directory.
After the product selection tree, the installer displays the language pack selection tree. For information on language packs, see the international operating environments appendix in this guide. The installer then displays panels (GUI mode) or prompts (console mode) that ask for product configuration information. Most are self-explanatory, so this section shows only the panels that require explanation. The information and fields on the panels and prompts are identical.
Important: | Make sure all ports you specify on panels or in response to prompts are not already being used by other products on your machine. The installer cannot detect whether ports are in use when products are shut down, and the shutting down of products is a requirement for running the installer. See the list of default ports used by Software AG products. |
