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The following sections describe how to start the installation program on Windows and Linux platforms:
| Note: | You cannot reinstall any BEA product on top of a previously installed version of the same product—in the same BEA Home directory or in the same file location. You can, however, add products and product components to an existing installation. For example, you can install WebLogic Server during one installation, and WLS-VE during a separate installation. However, to reinstall the same version of one of the products, you must first uninstall the previous installation, as described in Uninstalling the Software. |
The following sections describe how to start the installation program on a Windows platform:
See Starting the Installation Program in Silent Mode for information about using the installation program in silent mode.
| Note: | If you are installing the software on a Windows system that supports more than one monitor, you must disable all but one monitor before starting the installation program. |
Graphical-mode installation is an interactive, GUI-based method for installing your software. To start the graphical-mode installation process on a Windows platform, follow these steps:
The installation program asks you to specify locations for:
Console-mode installation is an interactive, text-based method for installing your software from the command line. To start the console-mode installation process on a Windows platform, follow these steps:
wls-ve921_win32.exe -mode=console | Note: | You can also include the -log=full_path_to_log_file option in the command line to create a verbose installation log. For example: |
| Note: | wls-ve921_win32.exe -mode=console -log=C:\logs\server_install.log |
| Note: | For more information, see Generating a Verbose Installation Log. |
After a few moments, a BEA Installer window opens and the installation program begins to install the software. It is normal for the installation program to pause for a fairly long time, especially toward the end. The installation program is still working when this occurs.
The installation program asks you to specify locations for:
The following sections describe how to start the WLS-VE installation program on Linux platforms:
See Starting the Installation Program in Silent Mode for information about using the installation program in silent mode.
| Note: | The WLS-VE installation program bundles its own JRE. |
If the installation program determines that your system cannot support graphical-mode installation, it automatically starts running in console mode. For details, see Running the Installation Program in Console Mode.
To start the graphical-mode installation process, follow these steps:
chmod a+x wls-ve921_linux32.bin
./wls-ve921_linux32.bin
| Note: | You can also include the -log=full_path_to_log_file option in the command line to create a verbose installation log. For example: |
| Note: | wls-ve921_linux32.bin -log=/home/logs/BEA_install.log |
| Note: | For more information, see Generating a Verbose Installation Log. |
The installation program asks you to specify locations for:
Console-mode installation is an interactive, text-based method for installing your software from the command line. To start the console-mode installation process, follow these steps:
chmod a+x wls-ve921_linux32.bin
./wls-ve921_linux32.bin -mode=console
| Note: | You can also include the -log=full_path_to_log_file option in the command line to create a verbose installation log. For example: |
| Note: | wls-ve921_linux32.bin -mode=console -log=/home/logs/BEA_install.log |
| Note: | For more information, see Generating a Verbose Installation Log. |
It is normal for the installation program to pause for a fairly long time, especially toward the end. The installation program is still working when this occurs.
The installation program asks you to specify locations for:
On either Linux or Windows, you can run the installation program in silent mode. During installation in silent mode, the installation program reads the settings for your configuration from an XML file that you create prior to beginning the installation. Silent mode eliminates the need to respond to prompts from the installation program. The installation program does not display any configuration options during the installation process. Silent-mode installation works on both Windows and UNIX systems. Using silent-mode installation implies that you consent to the BEA License Agreement. You neither see a copy of the BEA Software License Agreement nor have any means of accepting the terms of the agreement.
To run the installation program in silent mode:
silent.xml file that defines the configuration settings required for the installation program. See Creating the silent.xml File.wls-ve921_win32.exe -mode=silent -silent_xml=path_to_silent.xml
chmod a+x wls-ve921_linux32.bin
./wls-ve921_linux32.bin -mode=silent -silent_xml=path_to_silent.xml
Here, path_to_silent.xml is the full pathname of the silent.xml file.
For more detailed information about silent mode installation, see Running the Installation Program in Silent Mode in the WebLogic Installation Guide.
Your silent.xml file needs to define the configuration settings required for the installation program. The required information is included in a set of data-value elements in the silent.xml file, for example:
<data-value name="BEAHOME" value="/space1/BM/9210509"/>
The required settings are described in Table 3-1. For a sample silent.xml file, see Listing 3-1.
The BEA Home directory. See The BEA Home Directory.
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The product installation directory. See The WLS-VE Product Installation Directory.
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The ISO image installation directory. See The Installation Directory for the WLS-VE ISO Image.
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<bea-installer>
<input-fields>
<data-value name="BEAHOME" value="/space1/BM/9210509"/>
<data-value name="USER_INSTALL_DIR" value="/space1/BM/9210509/weblogic92"/>
<data-value name="ISO_DIR" value="/space1/BM/9210509/wlsve_iso"/>
</input-fields>
</bea-installer>
The following sections describe optional features of the WLS-VE installation program:
If you launch the installation from the command line or from a script, you can specify the -log option to generate a verbose installation log. The installation log stores messages about events that occur during the installation process, including informational, warning, error, and fatal messages.
| Note: | You may see some warning messages in the installation log. However, unless a fatal error occurs, the installation program completes the installation successfully. The installation user interface indicates the success or failure of each installation attempt, and the installation log file includes an entry indicating that the installation was successful. |
To create a verbose log file during installation, include the -log=full_path_to_log_file option in the command line. For example:
wls-ve921_win32.exe -log=C:\logs\server_install.logThe path must specify a file. You cannot create a folder simply by including a name for it in a pathname; your path should specify only existing folders. If your path includes a nonexistent folder when you execute the command, the installation program does not create the log file.
The BEA installation program uses a temporary directory into which it extracts the files necessary to install the software on the target system. During the installation process, your temporary directory must contain sufficient space to accommodate the compressed Java run-time environment (JRE) bundled with the installation program and an uncompressed copy of the JRE that is expanded into the temporary directory. The extracted files are deleted from the temporary directory at the end of the installation process.
By default, the installation program uses the following temporary directories:
| Note: | If you do not have enough temporary space to run the installation program, you are prompted to specify an alternate directory or exit the installation program. |
To make sure that you have adequate temporary space, you may want to allocate an alternate directory for this purpose. To do so, follow the instructions provided in the following table.
Table 3-2 Setting Up Disk Space
Move or copy the ISO image file to the local disks of hypervisor hosts. See Copying the ISO Image.
Use the LiquidVM Configuration Wizard to specify how LiquidVM connects to VMware. See Configuring LiquidVM Connection Parameters.
Use the WebLogic Server Domain Configuration Wizard to create a domain and server instances, then edit the startup scripts for the servers. See Configuring and Starting WLS-VE Domains.
For additional information about the files and shortcuts that the installation program created, see WLS-VE Installation Directories.
For specific information about this WLS-VE release, see the BEA WebLogic Server Virtual Edition Release Notes.
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