How to install Jboss + DB2 on CentOS Linux 4.5 ?

How to install Jboss + DB2 on CentOS Linux 4.5 ?

I am using Gentoo Linux at home, but I had to install Jboss and DB2 Express-C on CentOS 4.5 at work, here is what you need to do to set them up:

First at all, on CentOS 4.5, I have SELinux disabled and firewall/iptables enabled.

Install JDK 1.5 on CentOS 4.5

In order to use EJB from Jboss, you will need to install JDK 1.5.

1. CentOS 4.5 comes with Yum (the package management), which makes it much easier to install packages, but there are not so much packages managed in Yum’s default repositories, like Java related packages, so you will need to install an repository for Yum called “jpackage” first.
   cd /etc/yum.repos.d
   wget http://www.jpackage.org/jpackage17.repo
   
2. Update your yum repositories
   yum check-update
   
3. install JDK 1.5
   cd /usr/local/src
   wget ftp://jpackage.hmdc.harvard.edu/JPackage/1.7/generic/non-free/SRPMS/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.13-1jpp.nosrc.rpm
   download jdk-1_5_0_13-linux-i586.bin from sun
   (under Linux Platform - Java Development Kit 5.0 Update 13 / Linux self-extracting file) and copy to /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/
   rpmbuild –rebuild /usr/local/src/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.13-1jpp.nosrc.rpm
   rpm -ivh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i586/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0-13-1jpp.i586.rpm
   rpm -ivh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i586/java-1.5.0-sun-devel-1.5.0.13-1jpp.i586.rpm
4. set up environment variable
   create a file /etc/profile.d/jdk.sh which contains this line in it:
   export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.13
   and make it executable:
   chmod +x /etc/profile.d/jdk.sh
   

Install Jboss 4.2.2 GA on CentOS 4.5

1. download jboss 4.2.2 GA (or the latest version)
   download jboss from:
   http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=22866&package_id=16942
   and extract to /usr/local/, rename the directory from Jboss-4.x.x.GA
   to jboss
   now will have jboss files under /usr/local/jboss directory
2. create jboss user and group
   groupadd jboss
   useradd -d /usr/local/jboss -g jboss jboss
   
3. change password for user jboss
   passwd jboss
   
4. change ownership of the whole directory /usr/local/jboss to
   jboss:jboss
   chown jboss:jboss -R /usr/local/jboss
   
   
   
5. make the jboss control script /etc/init.d/jboss
   cp /usr/local/jboss/bin/jboss_init_redhat.sh /etc/init.d/jboss
   
   make necessary changes in the file, for example, instead of binding the ip to 127.0.0.1 only, you might want to bind it to external ip, then put this line in the file:
   JBOSS_HOST=0.0.0.0
   make the file executable
   chmod +x /etc/init.d/jboss
   
6. enable auto start with OS by making symbolic link of /etc/init.d/jboss to system start up level directory
   find out the default start level you are using:
   open the file /etc/inittab, look at the beginning of the file, you will see something like this:
   id:5:initdefault:
   which means your default run level is 5
   cd /etc/rc5.d (if your default run level is 3, you will need to change directory to /etc/rc3.d)
   ln -s ../init.d/jboss S96jboss
   
7. how to start/stop jboss manually ?
   to start:
   /etc/init.d/jboss start
   or
   service jboss start
   to stop:
   /etc/init.d/jboss stop
   or
   service jboss stop
   
8. add exception to firewall
   add this line to /etc/sysconfig/iptables
   -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state –state NEW -m tcp -p tcp –dport 8080 -j ACCEPT
   restart your firewall:
   /etc/init.d/iptables restart
   
9. start jboss and type in http://127.0.0.1:8080 in your browser to check if jboss is running

Install DB2 Express-C 9.5 on CentOS 4.5

1. fix missing /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (db2 was compiled with older c++ library)
   yum install compat-libstdc++-33
2. install required package libaio
   yum install libaio
3. install db2
   download DB2 Express-C for Linux zip file from:
   http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/db2/express/download.html
   unzip
   run db2_install and follow the steps
4. add exceptions on firewall
   add these three lines into /etc/sysconfig/iptables:
   -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state –state NEW -p udp -m udp –dport 523 -j ACCEPT
   -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state –state NEW -p tcp -m tcp –dport 523 -j ACCEPT
   -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state –state NEW -p tcp -m tcp –dport 50000 -j ACCEPT
   restart firewall:
   /etc/init.d/iptables restart
5. create db2 users
   groupadd db2grp1
   groupadd db2fgrp1
   groupadd dasadm1
   useradd -g db2grp1 -m -d /opt/ibm/db2/V9.5/db2inst1 db2inst1 -p PASSWORD
   useradd -g db2fgrp1 -m -d /opt/ibm/db2/V9.5/db2fenc1 db2fenc1 -p PASSWORD
   useradd -g dasadm1 -m -d /opt/ibm/db2/V9.5/dasusr1 dasusr1 -p PASSWORD
6. create a db2 instance (I chose the
   default install path)
   cd /opt/ibm/db2/V9.5/instance
   ./db2icrt -p 50000 -u db2fenc1 db2inst1
7. create DAS(Administration Server)
   cd /opt/ibm/db2/V9.5/instance
   ./dascrt -u dasadm1
8. enable db2 auto start with OS
   su - db2inst1
   db2iauto -on db2inst1

Written by lagjazz on November 14th, 2007 with no comments.
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