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1. Installation Instructions 

1.1 Installation Overview 

This section provides step-by-step instructions for installing 
mvEnterprise Release 4.1 on AIX. 

IMPORTANT: 

Contact Raining Data Customer Support at 949-261-
1875 or your local office for any questions concerning 
user-written assembler modes. If you have any user-
written assembler modes and/or third-party packages, 
they must be recompiled and reinstalled after the 
installation procedure is complete. 

mvEnterprise Release 4.1 on AIX                            Installation Guide                                    Page  3 

Содержание Raining DataCorp. mvEnterprise

Страница 1: ...pril 02 2002 mvEnterprise Release 4 1 0 on AIX 1998 2002 Raining Data Corporation This document refers to products that are either currently released or are yet to be released Please consult your Rain...

Страница 2: ...IX are trademarks of IBM Corporation and are being used under license PICK is a registered trademark of Raining Data Corporation UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the US and other co...

Страница 3: ...the System for mvEnterprise on AIX 41 2 1 Getting Started 41 2 2 Configure Tape Devices for mvEnterprise on AIX 43 2 2 1 Special Considerations for 4mm DAT Units 45 2 2 2 Special Considerations for Ca...

Страница 4: ...Page ii mvEnterprise Release 4 1 on AIX Installation Guide...

Страница 5: ...TANT Contact Raining Data Customer Support at 949 261 1875 or your local office for any questions concerning user written assembler modes If you have any user written assembler modes and or third part...

Страница 6: ...being defined cshrc Script executed upon entry to a C shell BOLD CAPS and body text Indicates important items requiring special visual emphasis CAUTION Means remember Indicates something you should k...

Страница 7: ...bout other manuals published by Raining Data contact Order Administration at the following address Raining Data Corporation 17500 Cartwright Irvine CA 92614 Attention Order Administration Fax 949 474...

Страница 8: ...cesses excluding Phantoms that are licensed and allowed to run at one time mvEnterprise ODA requires a separate master control code and contains the maximum number of mvEnterprise ODA server processes...

Страница 9: ...ocess can then be dropped from any port on any machine to create a free process There is no preset allocation of ports to logical machines and no limit to the number of logical machines involved The o...

Страница 10: ...rom the GLOBAL LOGON PROC in the LIBRARY account 5 If performing a complete database save and restore execute the base save and any account save threads 6 Perform a SHUTDOWN from mvEnterprise to shut...

Страница 11: ...for mvEnterprise Configure the System to use Ethertape NOTE It may be necessary to reboot the system for certain system configuration changes to take effect 9 The following directories are created dur...

Страница 12: ...ple cd mkdir production 4 Change directories to the mvEnterprise directory cd production 5 Load the UNIX tar section by entering the command tar xvpf tape_device_name where tape_device_name represents...

Страница 13: ...s roll_log_pseudo Sample roll log cron script eternal_sleep mve_tel support program vtape_compress Virtual tape support script vtape_decompress Virtual tape support script 6 Execute the install progra...

Страница 14: ...section Configuring Disks for Use With mvEnterprise On AIX for more detail Enter the name to be used for the mvEnterprise monitor program Enter the name for the PICK monitor program i e prodpick The f...

Страница 15: ...ust be changed to include the correct tape devices to be used under mvEnterprise At a minimum device 0 needs to be specified to continue the installation The config tape file contains 32 lines of data...

Страница 16: ...with the mvEnterprise ODA monitor program cp p pickoda prodpick 10 If this is a new installation or you are doing a complete file restore proceed with Steps 11 15 to complete the installation procedur...

Страница 17: ...ded in future mvEnterprise release is affected If you have altered the release files for any reason you must maintain a backup copy with your changes Refer to Upgrade File Listing for a complete listi...

Страница 18: ...elease 4 1 on AIX Installation Guide Upon completion of the SYSTEM UPGRADE procedure remove the mvEnterprise Release 4 1 tape and store the tape in a safe location 15 The upgrade to mvEnterprise Relea...

Страница 19: ...TERMIO STATUS DICT LINES UTILITIES INSTRUCT DICT UTILITIES NSYM OSYM ODA ADMIN DICT ODA BP REL BOOT SYMBOLS SYM SCRIBE SCB BP TOSYM DICT SCB BP WP MD LIBRARY DICT ACC BLOCK CONVERT SYSPROG BOOT ABS E...

Страница 20: ...ames When done type end Enter the name to be used for the mvEnterprise monitor program How many phantom processes started at coldstart Do you wish to add default users to users script y n These prompt...

Страница 21: ...of them are built using the newly designated machine names from the response to this prompt If this is a new installation the installation program displays two additional prompts How many phantom proc...

Страница 22: ...s via the scripts phantoms and users common1 Common area shared by mvEnterprise processes config File containing information regarding the mvEnterprise environment such as number of ports number of ph...

Страница 23: ...mvEnterprise disk flushing program It is renamed during install to a unique name such as prodpicksync or devpicksync pickoda mvEnterprise ODA monitor or kernel pick lpd Program to allow the sharing o...

Страница 24: ...efined in dev The install default is the system console dev console o Specifies removing and recreating common1 from information in the file config If config does not exist install prompts for termina...

Страница 25: ...ets the virtual tape device as defined in config tape dp0 dp1 and so on e Add file systems to mvEnterprise overflow without performing a save and restore Used instead of the x for the first coldstart...

Страница 26: ...LOGON banner ol Log line off when carrier drop detected ot For mvEnterprise processes connected via telnet The ot option causes a logged on mvEnterprise process to be left in a re startable state whe...

Страница 27: ...even parity o 7 bit odd parity The default flow and parity control is ryn or x on x off flow control and 8 bit no parity s n Set the baud rate for the terminal Defaults to 9600 t Set the UNIX terminal...

Страница 28: ...permitted to increase their VFS by the difference between the config VFS size and the new current VFS size For example if the VFS size specified in config is 36 the following command alters the curren...

Страница 29: ...rise Release 4 1 on AIX Installation Guide Page 27 x Set the coldstart flag Implied by options a or f z Same as x In addition flags coldstart to return all acquired workspace overflow to the file spac...

Страница 30: ...umber of sections and m equals the sleep time in seconds The defaults for the program are 60 sections and a one second sleep so the data space is synchronized to disk approximately once per minute NOT...

Страница 31: ...resented by the numeric parameter This yields a x b where a represents the number of workspace sections and b represents the number of primary drives The default is 10 the range is 5 to 50 tn Sleep ti...

Страница 32: ...ntains 10000 10 then 100 000 frames of workspace overflow are allocated below SYSBASE and only need to be flushed once every loops l times through the database The flush program is executed from the s...

Страница 33: ...ed without performing a SAVE and RESTORE of the database the information reflected in the config file is Before After Physical ports 100 100 Phantoms 20 20 VFS buffers 128 128 Disk device 0 dev dskwww...

Страница 34: ...oldstart which includes the flag set for disk extension in step 5 prodpick l0 e 8 Once the coldstart is complete start the user processes Type users NOTE Once this process is complete additional disk...

Страница 35: ...III follows 1 Invoke smit the System Management Interactive Tool by typing smit from an AIX command shell Note that you must have root user privileges to execute this program For more information on...

Страница 36: ...hment Type the printer is physically connected to this computer 5 Select the Printer Type i e manufacturer Hewlett Packard 6 Select the Printer Type model hplj 3 Page 34 mvEnterprise Release 4 1 on AI...

Страница 37: ...connection 8 For this system the Parent Adapter is sa0 NOTE This setting may vary based on your system s available hardware 9 Type the names of the new print spooler queues to be added mvEnterprise R...

Страница 38: ...t and HP GL 2 For more information or if your printer differs from the one described please see your printer s documentation 10 Complete the form by filling in the Printer Connection Characteristics t...

Страница 39: ...12 Press the Cancel key to return to the Print Spooling menu 13 Select Change Show Printer Characteristics 14 Press the List key to display a listing of available printer queues and select the correct...

Страница 40: ...here prodpick lpd The line printer driver program prodpick lj3pcl 99 The name used for the pipe it is a concatenation of the UNIX spooler queue name and the mvEnterprise port lj3pcl The name of the UN...

Страница 41: ...of VFS pages for use by the mvEnterprise spooler process Run process in the background The pipe name is written to tmp prodpick lj3pcl 99 as a lock to prevent two pipes with the same name This lock i...

Страница 42: ...Enterprise printer number 0 The form queue number associated with this printer 0 The number of pages to eject between print jobs S99 Signifies that the printer is attached serially and is running on p...

Страница 43: ...grow should be set at unlimited Check or set the maximum file size for a user with the smit the System Management Interface Tool command Select Security Users Select Users Select Change Show Characte...

Страница 44: ...s Apply any changes Press the Enter key which executes the currently displayed command If you are familiar with either the emacs or vi editor you may wish to add one of the above commands to root s pr...

Страница 45: ...e smit The System Management menu displays NOTE The example screens shown here are intended to be representative of those you would see on your system However due to factors such as differing hardware...

Страница 46: ...screen displays 4 Select Change Show Characteristics of a Tape Drive A window appears on the screen prompting the selection of the tape drives currently installed in the system Page 44 mvEnterprise Re...

Страница 47: ...units that cannot handle compressed data you need to turn data compression off 2 2 2 Special Considerations for Quarter Inch Cartridge Tape Units Tape density and block size are of particular importa...

Страница 48: ...Page 46 mvEnterprise Release 4 1 on AIX Installation Guide two specified densities assuming this is valid for both the tape drive and tape cartridge specification used...

Страница 49: ...pe Drive Attributes 2 2 4 Update the config tape file A minimum device 0 needs to be specified to install mvEnterprise The config tape file contains 32 lines of data representing devices 0 to 31 respe...

Страница 50: ...and the other disks while installed cannot be used To identify them issue an lspv command For example If you want more detail about disks use the lsdev command The above example demonstrates the addit...

Страница 51: ...in the form which is displayed VOLUME GROUP name Type mvevg00 where mvevg is mvEnterprise volume group and 00 represents the first volume group the second volume group is numbered 01 and so on 6 Arro...

Страница 52: ...rm the choice 8 Press Enter to add the volume group 9 Press Enter once more to confirm the addition of the volume group The Command Status window displays a message that the command was executed succe...

Страница 53: ...t from an AIX command shell The System Management menu displays 2 Select System Storage Management Physical Logical Storage The System Storage Management menu displays 3 Select Logical Volume Manager...

Страница 54: ...ogical partition equals the size of the logical volume as seen in the following screen It also must be less than or equal to the maximum number of logical partitions see Step 11 8 Advance to the PHYSI...

Страница 55: ...irming that the command has been executed successfully Each partition occupies 4 MB of disk space unless AIX has been configured to use a non standard partition size The number of partitions multiplie...

Страница 56: ...Systems The Add Change Show Delete File Systems menu displays 5 Select Journaled File Systems The Journaled File Systems menu displays 6 Select Add a Journaled File System on a Previously Defined Log...

Страница 57: ...ins all the mount points for the mvEnterprise file systems and mvelv000 is the name given to the logical volume as exemplified in Step 5 11 Select Mount AUTOMATICALLY at system restart then type yes 1...

Страница 58: ...stem Storage Management Physical Logical Storage The System Storage Management menu displays 3 Select File Systems The File Systems menu displays 4 Select Mount a File System The Mount a File System f...

Страница 59: ...e on the file systems which were set up above During the software installation the install procedure prompts Enter initial data base names When done type end In the above example type mvefs mvelv00 DB...

Страница 60: ...exist Do you wish to create this database y n Respond y How many frames in this data space 5000 minimum If you are unsure on how many frames can fit in the file system type 1 negative one This create...

Страница 61: ...Edit the system configuration file Type vi etc pse conf 3 Locate the appropriate headings remove the comment symbol from these lines if necessary and save the changes PSE communication protocols d xt...

Страница 62: ...xist in the etc hosts file for Ethernet connections to be established In the example below pickA 192 0 0 1 refers to the local machine and pickB 192 0 0 2 is the name of a remote machine The etc hosts...

Страница 63: ...s Notation 2 Create Database AIX 53 File System AIX 50 Logical Volume AIX 47 D Data Flushing Time 26 Database 53 Database Names Initial 16 Default Users 10 16 Virtual Memory Buffer 22 Virtual Pages 9...

Страница 64: ...Management Interactive Tool 30 Special Considerations AIX 42 Stacked Data 20 start_flusher 27 Start_flusher 18 Support Scripts 15 17 syncd daemon 27 SYSBASE 25 System Environment 6 System Management I...

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