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crashdog
PostPosted: Mon Mar 18, 2019 9:24 pm    Post subject: unattended MQ Advanced RHEL installation and mqlicense Reply with quote

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Hello all,
When you do an unattended RHEL installation how do you handle the mqlicense -accept ? Do you write an Puppet, Ansibel, Chef, Salt script to handle it ? do you make a wrapper rpm ?

Is there any official statement from IBM on how to handle it ? I can't really find anything in the knowledge center only something on MQ Client installation on RHEL.

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 19, 2019 5:03 am    Post subject: Re: unattended MQ Advanced RHEL installation and mqlicense Reply with quote

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crashdog wrote:
Do you write an Puppet, Ansibel, Chef, Salt script to handle it ?


Yes

crashdog wrote:
do you make a wrapper rpm ?


Yes, before we had Ansibel.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 19, 2019 5:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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ok, thanks.
When you do it with Ansibel from where do you get the mqlicense and java-stuff it calls ? Or do you simulate the mqlicense script and just put the state.dat file into /tmp/mq... ?

We've now made a wrapper rpm that is preinstalled, containing the script and java-stuff.

But I find it a little strange that IBM doesn't provide an official unattended installation approach. Today I guess all server side software installation is highly automated and most software simply installable with a simple yum, rpm and Ansible/Puppet parameterization.

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 19, 2019 5:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Is it not easy to add a ./mqlicense.sh -accept line anywhere in the Ansible script/playbook?
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 19, 2019 5:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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crashdog wrote:
Or do you simulate the mqlicense script and just put the state.dat file into /tmp/mq... ?


Yes. Well, in the interests of transparency, I've not looked at the Ansible stuff since the PoC but that was how we did it then. Disappeared off into the platform engineering team now....

We've now made a wrapper rpm that is preinstalled, containing the script and java-stuff.

crashdog wrote:
But I find it a little strange that IBM doesn't provide an official unattended installation approach.


Define "official" - you've named 5 methods in this post! I think IBM provides guidance and/or samples for most of that on GitHub and probably don't want to produce an official white paper:

"Your MQ cat - all the ways you can skin it"

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Today I guess all server side software installation is highly automated and most software simply installable with a simple yum, rpm and Ansible/Puppet parameterization.


Pretty much. We just broke the 6000 Linux server ceiling and we'd never keep all the different configurations straight without tooling. Even with a smaller, sensible number of servers, as a minimum you'd use rpm for installs these days.
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Is it not easy to add a ./mqlicense.sh -accept line anywhere in the Ansible script/playbook?


It would be that simple if the files are available on the target system. The question is how do you get them there... nfs mount ? hardly. rpm wrapper, yes but you have to engineer it.

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Is it not easy to add a ./mqlicense.sh -accept line anywhere in the Ansible script/playbook?


It would be that simple if the files are available on the target system. The question is how do you get them there... nfs mount ? hardly. rpm wrapper, yes but you have to engineer it.

Cheers,

Gerhard

What is your site standard for moving files between servers?
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that's sftp, but it would need a manual step during installation. But as mentioned we've solved it by wrapping it into an rpm and reploy it over a yum repository. The wrapper has to be build manually, but then you can deploy happily ever after.

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