Upgrading the IBM System Storage DS8000 Storage Manager on the Linux operating system in unattended (silent) mode

You can upgrade the IBM System Storage DS Storage Manager in your Linux environment using the unattended (silent) mode.

The unattended (silent) mode upgrade option allows you to run the upgrade program unattended. Use this method of upgrade to issue a command from a command prompt window from the root directory of the IBM System Storage DS Storage Manager CD.

Perform the following steps to upgrade the IBM System Storage DS Storage Manager in your Linux environment using the unattended (silent) mode:

  1. Log on as a user with root authority.
  2. Create a mount point or choose an existing mount point.
  3. Determine where you want to mount the DS8000 Storage Manager CD. For example, imagine you have decided to mount the CD in a CD-ROM drive known as /dev/cdrom at mount point /mnt/cdrom. When the time comes for you to mount the CD in this drive, perform the following steps:
    1. Insert the CD in the CD-ROM drive.
    2. Type the following command at the command prompt: # mount -o ro /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
  4. Change the current directory to the mount point for the CD-ROM drive. For example, if the CD was mounted at the /mnt/cdrom mount point, type the following command: # cd /mnt/cdrom
  5. Read the README.txt file that is located on the DS8000 Storage Manager CD to check for information that might supersede the information in these upgrade instructions.
  6. Type ./setup.linux -silent in the same Command Prompt window in which you changed the current directory to the root of the CD, to start the DS8000 Storage Manager upgrade program in unattended (silent) mode.
  7. Wait for the DS8000 Storage Manager installation program to install the product. This can take 5 - 10 minutes.
  8. Review the log file for any possible error messages, after the installation program completes. If there are no errors, the installation program completed successfully. The log file is located in xxx/logs/install.log, where xxx is the destination directory where the DS8000 Storage Manager was installed. The install.log file contains a trace of the installation actions.
  9. Perform the postinstallation tasks after the installation has completed. You can read the instructions for the postinstallation tasks in the postinstallation.txt in the doc directory on the product CD.

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