Installing IBM Installation Manager and IBM WebSphere Application Server ND 8.5.5.0 on Linux silently (using imcl)

Before installing IBM WebSphere Application Server ND v8.5.5.0, we need to :

1) Download installation manager and WAS packages from IBM Passport Advantage
2) Ensure necessary access is available for the user
3) Ensure java, glibc is installed
4) Ensure, we have enough space on the  file system to extract the zip files

Download IBM Installation Manager for linux from below url :

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24041188

WAS Binaries will have below files :

[root@washost200 WASND85]# ls -lrth|grep -v total|awk {'print $NF'}
Copyright.txt
disk1
disk2
disk3
lafiles
readme
Remote_Installation_Tool_for_IBM_i
repository.config
responsefiles
WLP
[root@washost200 WASND85]#


Let's begin with the installation process.
1. We need to install IBM Installation Manager to install IBM WAS.

Unzip the agent.installer.linux.gtk.x86_1.8.2000.20150303_1526.zip

Run the below command from the extracted directory to install IBM Installation Manager

./installc -acceptLicense

This will install IBM Installation Manager in the location /opt/IBM/InstallationManager. Please refer the below screenshot.

2) After installing IBM Installation Manager, we will proceed to install IBM WAS. We will first check the available packages / offerings in the WAS Binaries which we have downloaded. We will refer those as repositories.
Go to Installation Manager installation directory, navigate to eclipse/tools directory and trigger below command.

./imcl listAvailablePackages -repositories <WAS_Repository_path>

Now here, com.ibm.websphere.ND.v85_8.5.0.20120501_1108 is the package/offering ID available with us. Let's proceed further with the installation of the same.

3) Navigate to Installation_Manager_path/eclipse/tools directory and trigger below command :

./imcl -s install <offering_id> -repositories <WAS_Repository_path> -installationDirectory <path_to_install_WAS> -acceptLicense -sP

4) We have completed the installation of IBM WAS. We can check the same by running versionInfo.sh from WAS_ROOT/bin directory.