Plan your deployment. Planning your deployment for production before you install Sybase RAP greatly simplifies postinstallation tasks.
Read the release bulletins for the latest information on the products (Adaptive Server Enterprise, Sybase IQ, and so on) that you are installing. See the special installation instructions section in the release bulletin.
Install operating system patches, if required. If you are having trouble starting the installer, make sure you have the required operating system patches for the Java Runtime Environment (JRE).
Use the Adaptive Server Configuration Guide to review SySAM procedures and plan your client/server configuration.
Make sure that there is sufficient available disk space and the path name of the directory does not contain any spaces.
Check to ensure that the operating system meets the version-level, RAM, and network protocol requirements for your platform.
Verify that your network software is configured. Sybase software uses network software even if Adaptive Server and Sybase IQ client applications are installed on a machine that is not connected to a network.
If you are having connection problems or need to verify your network configuration, ping the host.
Allocate a shared memory segment that is at least as large as the Adaptive Server total logical memory configuration parameter.
The default total logical memory parameter on Sun is 47,104 2K pages (92MB) on the 64-bit operating system. To adjust the shared memory value of the operating system on Sun Solaris, add the following line to the operating system configuration file /etc/system:
set64 shmsys:shminfo_shmmax = <new_value_in_bytes>
To adjust the shared memory value of the operating system on Linux, add the new value in bytes to the file /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax, so that the new value takes effect immediately. Also add a line to the file /etc/sysctl.conf, so that the new value is retained the next time the machine is rebooted.
