Best practices for installing Application Client for WebSphere Application Server

This topic provides tips for installing Application Client on multiple platforms.

All platforms

• Reserve at least 4 to 5MB free space in the target platform temporary directory.

• When specifying a different temporary directory while installing Application Client, the following message is displayed if the target platform default temporary directory does not have enough free space to install Application Client:

  Error writing file =  There may not be enough
  temporary disk space.
  Try using -is:tempdir to use a temporary 
  directory on a partition with more disk 
  space.
  

  Use the -is:tempdir installation option to specify a different temporary directory. For example, the following command uses /swap as a temporary directory during installation:

  ./install -is:tempdir /swap

• After the installation, when changing the installation settings for the WebSphere Application Server host name and the port number, edit the setupClient file.

  Change the DEFAULTSERVERNAME and SERVERPORTNUMBER to the new WebSphere Application Server host name and port number, respectively. If the SERVERPORTNUMBER is not set, then the default is 2809. Review the following example:

  set DEFAULTSERVERNAME=NDServerName
  set SERVERPORTNUMBER=9810
  

  The setupClient file is located in the bin subdirectory under the Application Client installation destination.

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