Installing an additional Windows server

Use these instructions to install additional Windows servers.

Before you begin

You must satisfy the following requirements before installing an additional Windows server.

User requirements
Member of local Administrators group
Permission to write to a local NTFS file system partition
Active Directory user
OS requirements
See the Readme file or the Rational® Synergy Support site
Other prerequisites
You must have already installed a main Windows server. To install a Windows server, you must be licensed to use Rational Synergy on Informix®.

About this task

The following instructions describe how to install an additional Windows server, which includes the compact client, engine, database server, administrative tools, and object registrar.

The main reason for installing an additional server is resource allocation. With an additional database server, databases can grow separately. For example, if your company is large, but only one group within it is using Rational Synergy, you can create one database in which all source code, documentation, and testing objects are stored. Later, when your company decides that Rational Synergy is the right tool for all your projects, you can create one database for source code, one for documentation, and another for testing. Moreover, you can use a separate server for each database.

The %windir%\System32\drivers\etc\services file must be writable and you must be logged on to
domain. %windir% is the Windows installation directory.

Note: You must install the main server and any additional servers in a domain environment.

Procedure

To install an additional Windows server:

  1. Log on to the Windows domain.
  2. 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 display a menu. Click Explore to open Windows Explorer. Navigate to DVD_drive:\win_servers\synergy_server, and double-click setup.exe to display the Welcome dialog box.
    • If you are installing from a download, double-click synergy72.exe to display the Welcome dialog box.
  3. Click Next to display the License Agreement dialog box. Review and accept the terms of the license agreement.
  4. Click Next to display the Choose Destination Location dialog box. You can accept the default installation location or click Browse to specify a different location.
  5. Click Next to display the Setup Type dialog box.

    If you are a domain user and a member of the local Administrators group, the Setup Type dialog box opens.

  6. In the Setup Type dialog box, select Additional Server.
  7. In the Informix Password dialog box, type the Informix user password in the Password field, and type it again in the Confirm password field.
  8. Click Next. In the Main Windows Server Information dialog box, type the name of the computer that is your main Rational Synergy database server.
  9. Click Next, and select one of these options:
    • If the IBM Rational Synergy Router Information dialog box opens, proceed to step 10.
    • If the Informix Information dialog box opens, the installation program has determined the router port number from the main server computer. Go to step 11
    • If the Informix Database Server Information dialog box opens, the installation program has determined the router port number from the main server computer. The installation program has also determined the Informix port number. Go to step13.
  10. If necessary, type the router host name and the router port number in the appropriate fields. By default, the port number that the Rational Synergy router uses is 5412. The port number must be the same as the port number specified on the router computer. By default, the router computer is the main server.
  11. Click Next, and choose one of these options.
    • If the Informix Information dialog box is not displayed, the installation program has detected the Informix port number. Go to step 13.
    • In the Informix Information dialog box, if the default port number that Informix uses (1526) is already in use, type a different port number in the Informix Port field. If you are not certain that port number 1526 is available, look in your Services file, which is located in the %windir%\System32\drivers\etc\services directory. For more information, see Services file.
  12. Click Next. The Informix Database Server Information dialog box opens.
  13. Configure the Informix Database Server Information dialog box. The default settings in the database server dialog boxes are only suggestions. Configure these dialog boxes 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 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 might be overwritten. Overwriting chunk files might 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 it if you want all chunk files to be stored in the same directory. Otherwise, clear this check box.
  14. Click Next to display the Create Database Server Information dialog box.
    Note: If you are creating a database server, a message is displayed telling you that server creation overwrites the existing onconfig file, SQLHOSTS registry entry, or Informix database chunk files. Click Yes to display the Informix Database Server Information (2) dialog box.
  15. If you selected to Place all chunk files in the same folder in step 13, and you are unsure how to allocate space for the chunk files, follow the instructions in 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.

To store chunk files in the same folder

Procedure

  1. In the Create Database Server Information dialog box, accept the default location of drive:\ifmxdata\ or click Browse to specify a different location.
  2. If you must change the defaults, type the size of the dbspaces in the following fields: Root size, Temp size, Log size, and Ccm size.
  3. Proceed to 13.

To store chunk files in separate folders

Procedure

  1. In the Root Chunk File Information dialog box, accept the default location of the Chunk file folder, drive:\ifmxdata\, or click Browse to specify a different location.
    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 might lose data.
  2. If you must change the default, type a chunk file size in the Chunk file size field.
  3. Click Next . The Temp Chunk File Information dialog box opens.
    Note: If a specified directory already contains chunk files, a Warning dialog box opens telling you that these files are overwritten.
  4. In the Temp Chunk File Information field, accept the default location of the Chunk file folder, drive:\ifmxdata\, or click Browse to specify a different location.
  5. If you must change the default, type a chunk file size in the Chunk file size field.
  6. Click Next. The Log Chunk File Information dialog box opens.
  7. In the Log Chunk File Information dialog box, accept the default location of the Chunk file folder, drive:\ifmxdata\ or click Browse to specify a different location.
  8. If you must change the default, type a chunk file size in the Chunk file size field.
  9. Click Next. The Ccm Chunk File Information dialog box opens.
  10. In the Ccm Chunk File Location field, accept the default location of the Chunk file folder, drive:\ifmxdata\ or click Browse to specify a different location.
  11. If you must change the default, type a chunk file size in the Chunk file size field.
  12. You are now finished configuring the chunk files to be stored in separate directories. Click Next. The Connect to UNIX IBM Rational Synergy Server dialog box opens.
  13. If you are connecting the client to a UNIX server, select Connect to UNIX IBM Rational Synergy server. Otherwise, clear this check box.

    If you selected Connect to UNIX IBM Rational Synergy server in 13, type the UNIX installation path (for example, /usr/local/ccm72) in the CCM_HOME field. Otherwise, ignore this field.

  14. If the License Information dialog box opens, choose to either enter the license server location or supply the information later..

    For more information about obtaining license information, see Understanding licensing for Rational Synergy.

  15. Click Next to display the start Copying Files dialog box.
    1. Scroll through the Current Settings list to view your setup. If you must change any settings, click Back until you arrive at the dialog box where you need to make the change. After you make the change, click Next until you return to the Start Copying Files dialog box.
    2. When all of your settings are correct, click Next.

      A progress indicator window opens while the files are being loaded onto your system.

      The installation program determines whether you must restart. If a dialog box instructs you to restart after the installation program has finished running, follow the instructions to complete your installation.

  16. Click Finish. The Rational Synergy additional Windows server installation is complete.

    All setup information is written to a log file, C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\IBM Rational\Synergy 7.2x install.log.

Results

You can unpack a database, then start a Rational Synergy session as the CM administrator. However, until you add users, including yourself, to the Rational Synergy database, you cannot use the database.


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