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Prepare Admin access

Installation must be done performed using root user.

Prepare your installation file and env.environment

Make sure Ensure your /tmp directory has at least 1GB of free space

you can install from other directory than /tmp but:

Install from a different directory is possible. Ensure that this directory:

• • Has at least 1GB of free space
  • it can Is NOT be one of this these folders:
    • /app
    • /logs
    • /data
    • /shared
    • /installs

Download the CEF file and transfer it to the /tmp directory in the Pre-installed OS server.

Setup your network (consult your network admin)

Setup your DNS - use your network admin to assist you with this action.

Setup your NTP - make sure it is the same used for your IBM DataPower Gateways. You should consider run running the command : yum install ntp.

• Consult your Linux and Network admin on how to configure this service.
• make Make sure the ntp rpm RPM is installed : yum install ntp

• you can discover Run the command hostname to find your server name by running cmd: hostname

Verify all required RPMs installed

• httpd (and following dependencies mailcap, apr,httpd_tools)
• mod_ssl
• cURL
• wget

If these are not found on your system - you will need to install them yourself. The installation is usually done with command: yum install httpd.

If the package is not included in the repository make sure that the following repository is enabled using , you will need to add the containing repository. Run the following command:

subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-server-rh-common-rpms

Make sure Ensure the httpd service is enabled - use command: systemctl enable httpd.service

Make sure Ensure the httpd service is started - use command: systemctl start httpd.service 

• by default this rpm This RPM is not always accessible from existing repositories. Try first to install it - run by running the command : yum install mod_proxy_html.
  if If you get the error "No package mod_proxy_html available. Error: Nothing to do" than , you should will need to download it by yourself.
• you have 2 options:
• Option yourself, using one of the following methods:
• Method 1 - download the rpmyou will need to know RPM
  • Find your httpd version before downloading by : run the command: rpm -qa | grep httpd
  • you should see result like The system will print something resembling httpd-2.4.6-40.el7_2.4.x86_64 . This is your version the mod_proxy version you need to download
  • Download the mod_proxy with the correct version from here - the following url:
    https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/mod_proxy_html/2.4.6-45.el7/x86_64/f21541eb/package
  • make sure you have download the same version as the httpd.
  • you can download with (change the version part of the url
    to match the httpd version you found above). Use wget or any other mechanism as long as at the end the rpm reach the to download, and ensure to place the RPM inside the /tmp directory
    of the Pre-installed OS server.
  • Install RPM with the RP. Run the command :  rpm -Uvh mod_proxy_html-2.4.6-40.el7_2.4.x86_64.rpm
  Option
  • (Note: your version may vary, as described above)
• Method 2- add a repository and install it from the repository using the commands:

  • subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-server-optional-rpms

  • yum install mod_proxy_html

Prepare disk, mount points / file systems

and logical volume

For Production and Non Production installation installations, the Standard Edition requires 3 disks (LUNs / physical / virtual) to support throughput.

You need to allocate the following mount points / file systems on the different disks as described in table 1 below

It is strongly recommended to use logical volume manager (LVM) especially for data disk

The minimum file system sizes for the different installation types are described in table 2 below