IBM Workplace Collaboration Services: Release 2.5 Deployment Guide

618 IBM Workplace Collaboration Services: Release 2.5 Deployment Guide

A.1.2 Installing the Workplace Collaboration Services software

After you prepare the information required the during Workplace Collaboration

Services installation, the next step is to install the Workplace Collaboration

Services software.

To install Workplace Collaboration Services, perform the following steps:

1. Log in to the Workplace Collaboration Services server using the administrator

account (or an account with full administrator access).

2. Deactivate any screen savers and temporarily disable any firewall software

installed on the Workplace Collaboration Services machine. They might

interfere with the operation of the installation program and the Configuration

Wizard.

3. Insert the Workplace Collaboration Services Setup CD. If you are installing

from downloaded code, open a command prompt and navigate to the

LWPServer folder. Launch install.bat.

4. In the Select a language to be used window, select a language, and click OK.

5. In the “Welcome to IBM Workplace” window, click Next.

6. In the “Select the products that you have licensed” window, select all products

for which you have licenses, and click Next.

7. Accept the terms of the license agreement and click Next.

8. In the “Setup will install IBM Workplace in the following directory” window,

enter a directory path and click Next. For example:

X:\IBM\Workplace

9. Select the appropriate deployment topology and click Next.

10.Enter the fully qualified host name of the machine that will house the

Workplace Collaboration Services products and click Next.

11.Enter an administrator name used to log in to Workplace with administration

authority before security is enabled. Click Next. This ID is not an operating

system ID and does not need to exist in the LDAP directory.

12.Review the options in the installation summary window and click Install.

13.Click Finish to complete the installation.

14.Errors encountered during the install can be found in the installation log,

lwpinstalllog. By default the installation log files are in the

\IBM\Workplace\WorkplaceServer\log directory.

15.When the installation completes, none of the application servers installed by

the Workplace Collaboration Services installation utility (Mail_Server_1,

server1, and WebSphere_Portal) are running. You will start them as part of

the installation verification process.