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Replication Server

$SCROOT 42
$SYBROOT 42
$SYBASE_SYSAM 42
$SYBASE_UA 42
table of 

42

examples

style conventions 

ix

existing Adaptive Server Enterprise 12.x (64-bit) directory

warning about installing into 

25

existing installation directories 

29

F

files

installation log 

37

log.txt 19, 

37

SYBASE.csh 19, 

26, 

41

SYBASE.env 19, 

41

SYBASE.sh 

19, 26, 41

SySAM licenses 

3

vpd.properties 19

full installation 

26

G

geographic location 

29

grace periods

acquiring SySAM licenses during 

12

SySAM licensing 

11

graphical user interface (GUI) installation 

27

GUI mode

installation 28
uninstalling 37

H

HP-UX operating system threads 

15

I

installation

CD, mounting 

28

console mode 

33

Java Runtime Environment 

52

methods 27
not enough disk space for 

30

SAMreport 52
troubleshooting during silent or console mode 

36

typical software components 

30

installation directories

contents 18
existing 29
new 29
Sybase 25

installation log file 

37

installation methods

console with response file 

27

GUI 27
response file 

27

silent 27

installing

a network license server 

22

Adaptive Server for the Replication Server System 

Database 40

console mode with a response file 

35

in command line mode 

33

Replication Server 

27

silent mode 

35

using InstallShield 

25

using 

-W

 flag 

36

with a response file 

34

InstallShield

complete installation 

26

custom installation 

26, 30

definition of 

25

GUI mode 

28

log.txt 27
previous installation with 

30

standard installation 

26, 30

starting 28

interfaces subdirectory 

18

J

Java Runtime Environment

installation 52

_jvmrep subdirectory 

19

Summary of Contents for Replication Server 15

Page 1: ...Installation Guide Replication Server 15 0 UNIX...

Page 2: ...Server MDI Database Gateway media splash Message Anywhere Server MetaWorks MethodSet mFolio Mirror Activator ML Query MobiCATS MobileQ MySupport Net Gateway Net Library New Era of Networks Next Genera...

Page 3: ...f SySAM 8 License usage and enforcement 10 License availability and grace periods 11 Pre installation tasks 13 Read the release bulletin 13 Plan your replication system 14 Review system requirements 1...

Page 4: ...ng the options file to manage licenses 45 Starting and stopping network license servers 46 Borrowing a license to work offline 48 Enabling the network license server REPORTLOG file 50 Using SAMreport...

Page 5: ...llation Tasks provides information about the tasks you must perform after installation Appendix A SySAM Administration provides additional information about licensing concepts that you need to know be...

Page 6: ...between databases supplied by different vendors Reference Manual contains the syntax and detailed descriptions of Replication Server commands in the Replication Command Language RCL Replication Server...

Page 7: ...efer to the SyBooks Installation Guide on the Getting Started CD or the README txt file on the SyBooks CD for instructions on installing and starting SyBooks The Sybase Product Manuals Web site is an...

Page 8: ...support 2 Select EBFs Maintenance If prompted enter your MySybase user name and password 3 Select a product 4 Specify a time frame and click Go A list of EBF Maintenance releases is displayed Padlock...

Page 9: ...on definitions and subscriptions are in italics Syntax conventions Syntax formatting conventions are summarized in Table 1 Examples combining these elements follow Table 1 Syntax formatting convention...

Page 10: ...def deliver as proc_name add parameter datatype parameter datatype add searchable parameters parameter parameter send standby all replication definition parameters Accessibility features This document...

Page 11: ...ludes links to information on Section 508 and W3C standards If you need help Each Sybase installation that has purchased a support contract has one or more designated people who are authorized to cont...

Page 12: ...xii Replication Server...

Page 13: ...of Replication Server and provides an overview of the tasks involved in installing and setting up Replication Server Replication Server components Replication Server consists of the following compone...

Page 14: ...cation Servers and add databases to your replication system Upgrade existing Replication Server System Databases RSSDs Downgrade existing RSSDs and then reinstall an earlier version of the software En...

Page 15: ...e file contains the actual licenses or a pointer to a SySAM network license server When a license is successfully checked out Replication Server starts Using an unserved license When you configure an...

Page 16: ...a network license server When you configure a network license server the server uses two daemons the lmgrd FLEXlm daemon and the vendor SYBASE daemon to handle license check in and check out for lice...

Page 17: ...n When activating licenses at the Sybase Product Download Center select the Served license model Save the activated license file in your machine s SYBASE SYSAM 2_0 licenses directory See Installing a...

Page 18: ...ILE environment variable to contain a list of license files where each license file refers to one of the network license servers Replication Server uses this list to checkout licenses starting with th...

Page 19: ...to each other This form of redundancy requires that the servers exchange heartbeats periodically and poor communication can cause poor performance Avoid configuring redundant servers with slow commun...

Page 20: ...looking in the default location Note See Specifying Location of the License File in Chapter 2 License File Basics of the FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide Co existing with earlier versions of SySAM Re...

Page 21: ...ow installed on this machine 3 Point the Replication Server version 15 0 installation to this license server Use the lmpath utility see Using SySAM utilities on page 55 to do this or edit license dat...

Page 22: ...ersus using a local license file Managing licenses from multiple vendors If you use software from multiple vendors that use Macrovision s FLEXnet technology you can consolidate licenses from all vendo...

Page 23: ...when you configure a new Replication Server or upgrade an earlier version to 15 0 you have 30 days to activate and configure the appropriate license Runtime a runtime grace period is evaluated when on...

Page 24: ...to obtain a valid license and why the license could not be obtained You must fix the license failure before you can use Replication Server Acquiring SySAM licenses during the grace period If the licen...

Page 25: ...cation Server periodically executes a heartbeat with the network license server A successfully acquired license could be invalidated during the heartbeat for example if the license has an expiration d...

Page 26: ...rm Item Requirement Disk storage A minimum of 450MB of available hard disk space 400MB for the Replication Server software supporting files and log files An additional 20MB for each Replication Server...

Page 27: ...threads per process than previously However because many HP UX systems have relatively low default limits on the number of threads per process and total number of threads per kernel Replication Serve...

Page 28: ...ies includes a component identifier such as REP for Replication Server or OCS for Open Client and Open Server and the software release version such as 15_0 Replication Server 15 0 includes a new versi...

Page 29: ...sion 12 5 0 or earlier OpenSwitch version 12 5 or earlier DirectConnect version 12 5 or earlier Doing so incapacitates older versions of these products and can also adversely affect other Sybase produ...

Page 30: ...that refer to SYBASE change them to reflect the new installation directory structure A diagnostic server REP 15_0 bin repserver diag is installed to capture and display information about internal pro...

Page 31: ...y and shared vpd properties file used by InstallShield to keep track of version of installed and uninstalled software The vpd properties file gets installed in the SYBASE directory Warning Do not modi...

Page 32: ...n the installation process 1 Back up your current replication system 2 Create the sybase user account and make sure it has read write and execute permissions See Creating the sybase user account on pa...

Page 33: ...local file or you can acquire a license from a network license server See Choosing the appropriate license server configuration on page 21 2 Install a new network license server if necessary See Insta...

Page 34: ...ps sybase subscribenet com before you begin installation Installing a new license server Perform the following steps to install a new license server on a machine separate from the Replication Server y...

Page 35: ...tid Note If your machine has multiple network adapters lmutil lmhostid returns host IDs associated with each adapter Choose one of the IDs Avoid using IDs for removable network adapters c Save the hos...

Page 36: ...nses The generated licenses are displayed when the wizard completes d Click Save All to save the license file Make sure you have saved the license file with the extension lic 13 Copy the license file...

Page 37: ...ntains the support files for all Sybase products When you install Replication Server using InstallShield its software and support files are stored in the Sybase installation directory You can install...

Page 38: ...install the next window displayed is the Component Selection window which allows you to select the components to install Note Certain components are automatically installed if they are required to ru...

Page 39: ...stall the product without any interaction required on your part This is convenient if you are performing identical installations on multiple machines Console installation using response file lets you...

Page 40: ...o be mounted etc mount F cdfs o ro device_name RS150HP cdrom d Log out as root e Log in as sybase IBM AIX Mount the CD using the following command where device_name is the name of the CD device drive...

Page 41: ...uld have at least 100MB of disk space 3 Select Next 4 Choose your geographic location in the license and copyright agreement window 5 Read the Sybase license agreement and select I agree Click Next Yo...

Page 42: ...Language Modules for Replication Server Language Modules Connectivity Shared Replication Monitoring Services Replication Server Administration Tools Sybase Central and Replication Manager Plugin Syba...

Page 43: ...file is not installed on your local machine this message displays Installer can t check out a license Do you want to continue with a license Click Yes to complete the installation If you select No th...

Page 44: ...mple Replication Server will use an embedded RSSD called SAMPLE_RS_ERSSD that runs on port 11751 It will be configured with a user of SAMPLE_RS_RSSD_prim and a password of SAMPLE_RS_RSSD_prim_ps The i...

Page 45: ...the welcome window as follows Welcome to the InstallShield Wizard for Sybase Replication Server Software Version 15 0 The InstallShield Wizard will install Replication Server Software Version 15 0 on...

Page 46: ...template called REP response Edit the template with the values you want to use during installation Enter the following command at the command line where REP response is a name you choose for the resp...

Page 47: ...sensitive use all lowercase W ConfigureReplicationServer Yes or No no Installing in console mode with a response file A console mode installation using a response file lets you accept all defaults as...

Page 48: ...2 Verify that the vpd properties file has been written in the SYBASE directory 3 Check that the date of the vpd properties file reflects the date of this current installation Troubleshooting installat...

Page 49: ...have installed You can invoke the uninstall procedure using either GUI or console methods Sybase recommends that you use the GUI method Before uninstalling Sybase software log on to your machine usin...

Page 50: ...rmation Uninstalling in console mode 1 To uninstall the products in console mode first source the SYBASE csh or SYBASE sh as appropriate then execute the following at the command line IBM AIX HP UX an...

Page 51: ...ication Server is stored in the following log files InstallShield error log file SYBASE log txt Adaptive Server Anywhere error logs SYBASE_REP samp_repserver errorlog rs_init log file SYBASE SYBASE_RE...

Page 52: ...e Installation Guide for your platform Start the sample Replication Server During installation InstallShield asks if you want to configure and start a sample Replication Server InstallShield creates a...

Page 53: ...cation Server and Adding Databases with rs_init in the Replication Server Configuration Guide for UNIX Set environment variables InstallShield automatically sets system environment variables that are...

Page 54: ...th to the license dat file which SySAM needs to run the license manager PATH The directory path to Replication Server files SYBASE The home directory where you install all Sybase products SYBASE_JRE T...

Page 55: ...er When you purchase software from a Sybase reseller go to the download site at https sybase subscribenet com webkey Use the certificate that you received in your software package to enter the activat...

Page 56: ...the network license server if you are using a license server If you do not specify the port number the network license server uses the first available port number in the 27000 through 27009 range At t...

Page 57: ...s on your behalf and provide the keys to you The Sybase Product Download Center keeps a record of the license keys you have activated and allows you access the records of the software for which you ar...

Page 58: ...Software Asset Management SySAM software 2 Create a script that the system will use to start and shutdown The main purpose of such a script is to avoid running the License Manager with root privileges...

Page 59: ...red as etc init d sysam boot enter chmod 744 etc init d sysam boot chown root etc init d sysam boot chgrp sys etc init d sysam boot 5 Create an appropriately named link to start the License Manager du...

Page 60: ...plication Server periodically executes a heartbeat on the network license server to update license status If the machine running Replication Server is disconnected from the network these heartbeats fa...

Page 61: ...ollowing the instructions in Returning a borrowed license early on page 49 4 Start Replication Server The checked out license is borrowed 5 Disconnect from the network Displaying status on a borrowed...

Page 62: ...ng this command in the options file REPORTLOG report_log_path where report_log_path is the report log file for this vendor daemon Sybase recommends that you prepend the report_log_path with a plus cha...

Page 63: ...eriod Summary Barchart a format to compare license use across users and features based on calculations made in the Usage Summary report Usage Efficiency how long each successive license for a given pr...

Page 64: ...directory on the Replication Server version 15 0 installation media 2 Use console mode if your display supports only characters not graphics To run in console mode enter the following command HP UX s...

Page 65: ...nk to a directory named current is created in the installation directory in the v3 6 directory Click Next to continue with the installation 6 Choose the license file location Browse to the directory w...

Page 66: ...ell enter the following command where platform name is hp700_u11 for HP UX sun4_u5 for Solaris and ppc_u4 for IBM AIX C Shell setenv GPLATFORM platform name Bourne Shell export GPLATFORM platform name...

Page 67: ...ls at http www sybase com support manuals Portions of the FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide and the SAMreport User s Guide are included with permission of Macrovision Corporation Using SySAM utilities...

Page 68: ...information see Chapter 7 in the FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide The sysam script located in SYBASE SYSAM 2_0 bin provides a wrapper for the most frequently used FLEXlm utilities To display the help...

Page 69: ...ons SySAM 3 console mode installation 33 installation using a response file 27 35 troubleshooting 36 uninstallation 38 conventions document style viii examples ix syntax statements ix creating respons...

Page 70: ...va Runtime Environment 52 methods 27 not enough disk space for 30 SAMreport 52 troubleshooting during silent or console mode 36 typical software components 30 installation directories contents 18 exis...

Page 71: ...installation CD 28 multiple SySAM server configuration 6 N network license server configuration SySAM 4 network license server SySAM setting up 5 new installation directories 29 O OCS 15_0 subdirecto...

Page 72: ...6 SySAM network license server 46 Studio Installer previous installation with 30 subdirectories charsets 18 config 18 interfaces 18 _jvmrep 19 locales 18 OCS 15_0 19 REP 15_0 19 RMP 15_0 19 RMS plug i...

Page 73: ...up an unserved configuration 4 setting up multiple servers 6 unserved configuration 3 21 using a central license server only for new license 9 using SAMreport 50 utilities 55 SYSAM 2_0 subdirectory 1...

Page 74: ...Index 62 Replication Server W W flag and setup 36 warnings installing into existing Adaptive Server Enterprise 12 x 64 bit directory 25...

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