IBM Installation Manager upgrade

IBM Installation Manager upgrade from v1.4 to v1.7.x below for reference. Recently I have done an upgrade for IBM Installation manager from v1.4 to v1.7. Customer was on WAS v8.0 and he used IIM v1.4 during first set of Installations. So he was migrating to v8.5 and also required this IIM to be migrated.

IBM Installation Manager v1.7 Knowledge Center link for reference here. Note that we cannot roll back to a previous version after the upgrade.

There are two ways to perform this upgrade,

1. Updating Installation Manager on a computer that have Internet access

2. Updating Installation Manager on a computer that doesn’t have Internet access

Below is the process for upgrade to a later version,

1. Updating Installation Manager on a computer that have Internet access

Navigate to <IIM Installation Location>/eclipse/tools directory,

Execute the command, ./imcl install com.ibm.cic.agent

This will be sufficient for an IBM installation Manager upgrade.

2. Updating Installation Manager on a computer that doesn’t have Internet access

When we don’t have any internet access (an ideal case for every customer) proceed with following commands,

Download the installer package, agent.installer.platform​​_version.zip, or the fix pack, com.ibm.cic.agent.offering​​_version.zip​, to update Installation Manager.

Create a new directory and Unzip the agent.installer.platform​​_version.zip file

Navigate to IIM tools directory and execute below command,

./imcl install com.ibm.cic.agent -repositories installation_files/repository.config -preferences offering.service.repositories.areUsed=false

Example: ./imcl install com.ibm.cic.agent -repositories /IIM/IIM17/repository.config -preferences offering.service.repositories.areUsed=false

This command is enough to upgrade the IIM from v1.4 to 1.7 (in my case). Below screenshots for reference.

This completes the upgrade of IIM.