Running the Siebel Image Creator

The Siebel Image Creator is a utility provided for each operating system platform. It is responsible for extracting the installation files from the jar archives and storing them in a directory tree—the image—suitable for the installation. Installing Siebel CRM directly from the zip or jar archives is impossible.

The Siebel Image Creator can be run in graphical mode (GUI) or in command line mode. On operating systems that support graphical user interfaces, we typically use GUI mode.

We can start the Siebel Image Creator on Microsoft Windows by double-clicking the Windows_ImageCreator.exe file.

The following table provides step-by-step instructions for how to create a Siebel Installation Image using the Siebel Image Creator.

Now, we can navigate to the directory we specified in step 4 and verify that the Siebel installer files have been created for the selected products and languages. The following screenshot shows the directory tree for a Siebel installation image for various products such as Siebel Tools and Siebel Web Client:

If we consider a large project setting then it is definitely a recommended practice to copy the Siebel installation image directory to a network location that is accessible by anyone who needs to install Siebel CRM software.

Note

If you have finished downloading and unzipping the Siebel installation archives from the Oracle E-Delivery website, you can now follow the steps outlined in the above section and create the Siebel installation image on your hard drive.

Ensure that you follow the steps in the table above correctly to extract the installation images for all Siebel CRM products needed for a demonstration environment.