Use these instructions to install the main Windows server.
About this task
The main Windows server
includes the compact client, engine, database server, administrative
tools, object registrar, and router. To install a Windows server, you must be licensed to use Rational Synergy on Informix®.
You
must install the main Windows server
before you install additional servers or clients. If you already installed
the main server, but must install more servers, see Installing an additional Windows server.
There can be only one main Windows server per Rational Synergy license file. For more
information, see Understanding licensing for Rational Synergy.
- Log on to the Windows domain.
- Start the Rational Synergy
installer.
- If you are installing from a DVD, insert the DVD that contains
the Rational Synergy Windows Server in the DVD drive.
On the Windows taskbar, right-click Start to
open a menu. Click Explore to open Windows Explorer. Navigate to DVD_drive:\win_servers\synergy_server,
and double-click setup.exe. The Welcome dialog
box opens.
- If you are installing from a download, double-click synergy72.exe.
The Welcome dialog box opens.
- Click Next. The Software
License Agreement dialog box opens. Review and accept the
terms of the license agreement.
- Click Next. The Choose
Destination Location dialog box opens. Accept the default
installation location, or click Browse to specify
a different location.
- Click Next. The Setup
Type dialog box opens.
If
you are a domain user and a member of the local Administrators group,
the Setup Type dialog box opens. Select Main
Server and click Next, and then
proceed to step 6.
Install only one main server on your network.
If you are not a domain user or a member of the local
Administrators group, the IBM Rational Synergy Router Information dialog
box opens.
- Click Cancel to
exit the setup program.
- Log on as a domain user who is a member
of the local Administrators group.
- Start the main Windows server installation.
- In the IBM
Rational Synergy Administrator dialog box, type your domain
name in the User domain field, if necessary.
Type the Admin user name and Password in
the appropriate fields.
The domain and Admin
user must exist before you run the installation.
- Click Next. The Informix
Password dialog box opens.
- Click Next. The Install
IBM Rational Synergy Router dialog box opens.
- If
a router is not installed, select Install Router.
The Rational Synergy server
requires one router per site.
If a router
is running on UNIX, do not install
one on your Rational Synergy Windows server. You can share
these services running on UNIX.
- Click Next. The IBM
Rational Synergy Router Information dialog box opens.
- If you selected Install Router in
the previous step, the IBM Rational Synergy Router Information dialog
box prompts you only for port information.
By
default, the Rational Synergy
router uses port number 5412. If this port number is in use, change
the port number in the Router port field. If
you are not certain whether port number 5412 is available, look in
your Services file, which is in the %windir%\System32\drivers\etc\services directory.
For more information, see Services file.
- If you did not select Install
Router the previous step, the IBM Rational Synergy
Router Information dialog box prompts for router host and
port information. By default, the Rational Synergy
router uses port number 5412. The port number must be the same as
the one specified on the router computer.
To change the defaults, type the name of the router
host and router port in the appropriate fields.
- Click Next to
open the Ccm Server Information dialog box.
- If the default primary server port number
(8400) is in use, change the port number in the Port Number field.
If you are not certain whether port number 8400 is available, look
in your Services file, which is in the %windir%\System32\drivers\etc\services directory.
- Click Next to display the Rational Synergy Help Server
Information dialog box.
The help server serves online
help for all Rational Synergy
products. Rational Synergy
requires one help server for each installation, which, by default,
runs on the router host system.
By default, the help server
port number is 8500.
If the default help server port number
is already in use, change the port number in the Port number field.
If you are not certain that port number 8500 is available, look in
your Services file, which is in the %windir%\System32 \drivers\etc\services directory.
If
the help server is already installed at a different location, select
Use Remote Help Server. In the Host and the Port fields, type the
host and port where the Rational Help
Server is located.
- Click Next. The Rational
Directory Server Information dialog box opens.
- In the Server Host and Server
Port fields, type the host and port where Rational Directory Server is installed.
The default primary server port number is 1389. To find the port number
where Rational Directory
Server is installed, look in your Services file, which is in the %windir%\System32\drivers\etc\services directory.
- Click Next. The Informix
Information dialog box opens.
- If the default Informix port number (1526) is already in
use, change the port number in the Informix port field.
If you are not certain whether port number 1526 is available, look
in your Services file, which is in the %windir%\System32\drivers\etc\services directory.
- Click Next. The Informix
Database Server Information dialog box opens.
If
you are installing the main server on a 64-bit version of Windows, a message displays telling you to
create the Informix server
manually by running the ccmsrv create command, after
you complete the installation and restart your system. Click OK to
continue the installation.
- Create
the Informix database server.
The default settings in all Informix database server dialog boxes are
only suggestions. Configure these dialog boxes that are based on your
planning estimates in Main and additional Windows server
space requirements.
- If you are upgrading from a previous Rational Synergy release on the same computer, do
not select Create database server.
In all other cases, select this check box.
If you
do not select Create database server, you install
the new Informix software,
but you do not create a database server.
Note: If you are upgrading from
a previous Rational Synergy
release on the same computer and you select Create database
server, your old chunk files can be overwritten. Overwriting
chunk files can result in loss of data. For more information, see
the upgrade instructions relevant to your current installation.
- If
you are creating a database server, type its name in the Server
name field. Alternatively, use the default, which is the
computer name.
- Based
on your planning estimates, type the appropriate number in the Number
of users field.
- By
default, Place all chunk files in the same folder is
selected. Keep this setting if you want all chunk files to be stored
in the same directory. Otherwise, clear this check box.
- If
you are running the installation program as the CM Administrator,
and you selected the Create database server check
box, you can choose to have the installation program automatically
create a training database. Select Unpack Training database if
you want a training database.
The training database
is created in the path \\computername\ccmdb\training,
where computername is the name of the computer
on which you are installing. If it does not exist, the installation
program creates and shares the ccmdb directory.
- Click Next.
The Create Database Server Information dialog
box opens.
If you are creating a database
server (specified in step 19),
a message is displayed telling you that server creation overwrites
the existing onconfig file, SQLHOSTS registry
entry, or Informix database
chunk files. Click Yes. The Create
Database Server Information dialog box opens.
- If you installed the main server on a 64-bit version of Windows, (specified in step 18) create the Informix database server:
- Restart your system and start a command prompt (run
as administrator).
- Run the ccmsrv create command to manually
create the Informix server.
If the environment variables are not properly expanded, these
errors display:
ERROR: There is no sysmaster database
available.
ERROR: ERROR: Database sysmaster
not found.
The user environment for the informix user
did not expand %systemroot% in the PATH. Replace %systemroot% with C:\Windows to
successfully create the instance.
- If you selected Place all chunk
files in the same folder in step 19, follow the instructions
in To store chunk files in the same folder.
Otherwise, follow the instructions in To store chunk files in separate folders.
If you are unsure
of how to allocate space for the chunk files, see Disk space considerations.
Note: After you create a chunk file in a database server,
do not move it. If you do, the database server will no longer work,
and you can lose data.