Using LARS with WebSphere Liberty

How to:

Use LARS as an on-site mirror for WebSphere Liberty features

One use case for LARS is to provide a mirror of parts of the WebSphere Liberty repository inside a firewall. Once your LARS server is up and running, it needs to be populated with features for your version of WebSphere Liberty. The simplest way to do this is:

• Download a zip of all the features for your version of WebSphere Liberty from IBM Fix Central. Type wlp-featurerepo into the search box to find the relevant zip for your Liberty installation (registration required)
• Unzip to a local directory
• Upload the features to your LARS instance using larsClient

Install features from LARS into a WebSphere Liberty server

You can install features into WebSphere Liberty using a number of Liberty tools. For help on configuring these tools to install features from a LARS instance, please see the relevant Knowledge Center page:

• installUtility
• IBM Installation Manager