Starting the BI Monitor Installation Wizard

The BI Monitor Installation Wizard starts by running the jar file named WBIMonitor424.jar from the product CD or from the location where you have extracted the contents of the zip file that you downloaded from the Internet.

Before starting the BI Monitor Installation Wizard, you have to make sure that an environment variable named WAS_HOME is defined and contains the actual path of the IBM WebSphere Application Server installation directory. If this variable is not defined, then you must define it by doing the following:

  1. On Windows platform:

WAS_HOME = <WebSphere>

Set WAS_HOME

  1. On AIX or Solaris platforms:

    1. Open a Terminal Console using root.

    2. Type the following in the command line:

WAS_HOME= <WebSphere>

export WAS_HOME

If you are using IBM DB2 as the database server on AIX and Solaris platforms only, make sure that you run the Installation wizard with a user who is in the DB2 Administrators group. You should also run at least once the <DB2>/db2profile file from the same terminal console from which you will start the wizard. In order to run the db2profile command:

../db2profile

You have to make sure also that the IBM jdk 1.3.0 is installed on your machine. Alternatively, you can use the IBM JDK that is shipped with IBM WebSphere Application Server.

To start the BI Monitor Installation Wizard, run the WBIMonitor424.jar file by doing the following:

  1. On Windows platform:

java.exe -jar G:\WBIMonitor424.jar

Where G: is your CD drive name. Replace this name with the actual name of your CD drive or with the location where the WBIMonitor424.jar file exists.

If the java.exe is not included in the Path environment variable path then type the full path of java.exe (e.g.  C:\WebSphere\AppServer\java\bin\java.exe)

  1. On AIX and Solaris platforms:

java -jar /tmp/WBIMonitor424.jar

Where /tmp is the location where the WBIMonitor424.jar file exists.

If the java is not included in the PATH environment variable, then type the full path of java (e.g. "/usr/WebSphere/AppServer/java/bin/java" in AIX platform or "/opt/WebSphere/AppServer/java/bin/java" in Solaris platform)

In the following sections of this chapter, you will be guided through the detailed steps of using the BI Monitor Installation Wizard to install the BI Monitor components.