Specifying Which Deployment Options to Support for IBM WebSphere Servers

InstallAnywhere 2024 R2

When you are configuring a WebSphere server host in your project, you can specify which types of deployment options you want your installer to support. You can offer one or both of the following options:

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Local or remote WebSphere server—The Web application is deployed to the server on which the installer is running, or the installer runs on one machine and connects to a separate WebSphere server to deploy the Web application.

Note that the remote WebSphere server must be running at the time of deployment. In addition, it must be a stand-alone applications server.

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Save the EAR or WAR file locally on the target system for later deployment.

Note that the installer saves the EAR or WAR file in the following location:

$USER_INSTALL_DIR$/_$PRODUCT_NAME$_installation/websphere_undeployed_archive

When the product is uninstalled, the uninstaller removes the undeployed EAR or WAR file from that location.

To specify which deployment options that you want your installer to support:

In the Advanced Designer, on the Organization page, click Hosts. The Hosts view opens.

In the Host List, click the WebSphere server host that corresponds with the server that you want to configure.

At the bottom of the view, in the Deployment Options area, select the check box of each option that you want your installer to support. Available options are:

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Local or remote WebSphere

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Save the WAR/EAR locally on the target system for later deployment

Tip:As an alternative, you can configure deployment options when you click the WebSphere server host in the Install view on the Sequence page.

By default, InstallAnywhere uses the user-defined variable $WEBSPHERE_DEPLOYMENT_OPTION$ to indicate which option to use for deploying EAR and WAR files at run time. Valid values for this variable are:

Values for the $WEBSPHERE_DEPLOYMENT_OPTION$ Variable
Value	Description
1	Local or remote WebSphere server
2	Save the EAR or WAR locally on the target system for later deployment

You can use a run-time panel or console to enable end users to select which option that they want to use. As an alternative, you can add Set InstallAnywhere Variable actions to a sequence in your project to determine which option to use for deployment. To learn more, see Enabling End Users to Specify IBM WebSphere Server Information.