Installing Rational Synergy

Follow the instructions in the installation guide to install the license server and Rational® Synergy Release 7.2 or later on all your clients and servers.

About this task

Note: Do not install Rational Synergy Release 7.2 or later over a previous installation. Use a separate installation directory for each release, or uninstall the older release first, as described earlier in this checklist.
Note: For more details about the ccm_install command, see the administration documentation.

Procedure

  1. Download the appropriate installation image from the Rational Synergy Support website, and extract it. The following examples assume that you have extracted the image to /synergy_image.
  2. Follow the instructions for running ccm_install in the installation documentation up to but excluding "Set up the Rational Synergy Environment", except: If the installation directory for the previous release of Rational Synergy is visible from this computer, use the -x option. For example, if you are using the Bourne shell, the commands for running the upgrade installation procedure might be as follows:
    root# mkdir /usr/local/ccm72x
    root# chown ccm_root:ccm_root /usr/local/ccm72x
    root# chmod 755 /usr/local/ccm72x
    root# CCM_HOME=/usr/local/ccm72x; export CCM_HOME
    root# PATH=$CCM_HOME/bin:$PATH; export PATH
    root# cd /usr/local/ccm72x
    root# /synergy_image/ccm/unix/bin/ccm_install -x

    where:

    -x extracts the software from the installation image.

Creating a database server

Except where noted, you must perform the following steps on each machine that hosts a database server for Release 7.2 or later.

About this task

Oracle users must read "Prepare the Oracle Database" in the installation documentation. They must also verify that the items listed in that section have been performed before proceeding.

Procedure

  1. Create database server shared library links.

    The database server requires symbolic links set up to point from /usr/lib to its shared libraries. The ccm_install command you ran while installing the new release creates these links only if the command is running on the same machine type as the binary files you are installing (and even then it only creates links on the installation machine). You must run ccm_install -l on each database server and engine server.

    $ su -
    root# CCM_HOME=/usr/local/ccm72x; export CCM_HOME
    root# PATH=$CCM_HOME/bin:$PATH:/usr/ucb; export PATH
    root# cd $CCM_HOME
    root# $CCM_HOME/bin/ccm_install -l
  2. Create the database server. This information does not apply to users running on Oracle.

    Create your server by using newly allocated disk space. Or, if you deleted your previous Informix® database server, you can reuse its allocated space.

    Create a database server by following the instructions in the installation documentation. Additionally, read the appropriate administration documentation before creating a database server.


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