Installing MobileFirst Platform Server v7.1 on WAS ND - Step 1

MFP SERVER

Disclaimer: The solution discussed herein is from my own personal experience as a developer using the MobileFirst platform and do not represent IBM's view nor IBM's interest in supporting this officially.

Okay, so now we have WAS ND installed and setup and ready to go, we can start the proper installation of the MFP product.

Get the MFPvX.zip file onto the WAS Server and extract it to a non / tmp location. As I was logged in as admin, I chose to drop it into the / home / admin folder.

We'll then use the IBM Installation Manager in Silent Mode to install MFP.
Now, as you'll see I have the RHEL GUI available to me, so why did not I just use the Applications menu and install it from the GUI?
Well, as my wife tells me (email her an ask, she'll confirm it!), "GUIs are for girls". Seriously, she used to be a Linux admin, if it's not flashing at a command line prompt, she isn 't interested :-)

Okay, okay, in reality, if you're doing this for real, you will be doing it on a server environment and will be doing it all command line anyway, so I thought I'd show all the correct steps that you will genuinely be taking.

Here's a copy of the mfp1.rsp file that I used, you may need to tweak it slightly for your environment, but you get the idea:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<agent-input>
  <variables>
  <variable name='sharedLocation' value='/opt/IBM/IMshared' />
  </variables>
  <server>
    <repository location='/home/admin/MobileFirst_Platform_Server/disk1'/>
  </server>

  <profile id='IBM MobileFirst Platform Server 7.1' installLocation='/opt/IBM/MobileFirst_Platform_Server'>
    <data key='user.appserver.selection2' value='none'/>
    <data key='user.database.selection2' value='none'/>
    <data key='user.database.preinstalled' value='false'/>

    <data key='user.writable.data.user' value=''/>
    <data key='user.writable.data.group2' value=''/>

  </profile>
  <install modify='false'>
    <offering id='com.ibm.mobilefirst.foundation.server' version='7.1.0.00-20150807-0630' profile='IBM MobileFirst Platform Server 7.1' features='main.feature' installFixes='none'/>
  </install>
</agent-input>

In the video you'll see that we perform the installation, but all it is really doing is just laying down the Binaries for us to do the real installation afterwards!

Okay, so now we have the files onto the server, we need to configure the Database users / tables!

CLICK HERE TO MOVE ONTO STEP 2 - THE BIT WITH THE DATABASE