Colocation to Virtualization

This is just a brief overview. The installation process is pretty easy on these. Same as with most patches, IBM UpdateInstaller “update.sh” was used to install the service “pak” files. These patches must be done in order. Patch the WAS installation before patching WPG.

All WebSphere services must be stopped to install the WAS updates. On a standard installation, bcguser must be used to stop the service

[bcguser@WPGhost ~]$/opt/IBM/bcghub-simple/bin/./bcgStopServer.sh

We do not use ‘/opt’ for our WebSphere location, so change this if yours is different.

Next, use Update Installer to patch the WebSphere Application Server
[user@WPGhost ~]$ sudo /opt/IBM/WebSphere/UpdateInstaller/./update.sh

There is a gotcha here that had me “chasing my tail” for about 10 minutes. When going to install the WebSphere Partner Gateway fix pack, the Partner Gateway and WAS server must be started. Installation of the update will fail with error “user input validation”.

So before installing the WPG update, re-launch the Application Server and Partner Gateway

[bcguser@WPGhost ~]$ /opt/IBM/bcghub-simple/bin/./bcgStartServer.sh

Once done, launch IBM Update Installer again, passing the customized responce file for your environment. This needs to be executed as the root user, so sudo was used to allow xforwarding from a non-root account

[user@WPGhost ~]$ sudo /opt/IBM/WebSphere/UpdateInstaller/./update.sh -options /opt/IBM/bcghub-simple/responsefiles/bcgupdate_en_US.txt

Those are my miscellaneous notes about the update installation. Everything went fine here and I hope this fixes some of the SFTP issues we have been having.
This brings the WebSphere Partner Gateway Console form version 6.2.0.0.273 to 6.2.0.1.333

Notes: Here is the link to IBM’s website that lists the fixes that are provided in the update.

~ by Kevin Goodman on November 3, 2009.

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