This section describes the steps for a Mirror Replication Agent installation. It also has a procedure to verify the installation.
The Mirror Replication Agent installation process creates a directory structure that contains the Mirror Replication Agent binaries, scripts, JRE, and associated files. There are no configuration steps during installation.
To install Mirror Replication Agent software
Verify that the operating system (OS) patch levels are at the current level required to support Java 1.4.2. This is needed to support the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) that is installed with Mirror Replication Agent.
For more information about this requirement, see the Mirror Replication Agent Installation Guide.
Use one of the following methods to install the software:
From the Sybase Software Download Center Web site, navigate to the directory where the Mirror Activator software has been downloaded, uncompressed, and extracted. Download the Mirror Activator 15.0 for Sun Solaris, or
Insert the Mirror Activator CD into your CD drive.
Launch the installation program by executing the setup routine for Solaris:
./setupsolaris
If you see an error message saying that there is not enough temporary disk space, add this to your setup command:
./setupsolaris –is:tempdir someDirectory
where someDirectory is a directory with at least 100MB of disk space that the installation program can use.
If you are installing from a remote machine and do not
have an
X-windows client, execute ./setupsolaris –console to
run in console mode.
On the Welcome window, click Next.
Select a geographic location that displays the license agreement. Select I Agree and click Next.
Enter the directory where you want to install Mirror Replication Agent:
If the directory does not exist, the installation program prompts you to create it. Click Yes.
If the destination directory exists, you receive a warning message that you are installing into an existing directory. Click Yes.
Select Typical for the installation setup type and click Next.
The installation program displays a summary of what is to be installed. Click Next.
The installation program starts to install Mirror Replication Agent, displaying the progress status. You may see the following message:
There are newer files already installed and do you want to replace them?
Click No to All.
When you receive a message that the installation was successful, click Next.
The SySAM License Server window opens and displays this prompt:
Will licenses be obtained from the License Server?
If you answer Yes, you can leave both the license-mrx.lic and the license-dco.lic license files where they were installed in $SYBASE/SYSAM-2_0/licenses, or you can move the files to the SYSAM-2_0/licenses directory of your SYSAM license server. In either case, the Mirror Replication Agent and ECDA for Oracle (when it is subsequently installed) will verify the necessary licenses.
If you answer No, no further action is needed. The Mirror Replication Agent and ECDA for Oracle will use the license files (license-mrx.lic and license-dco.lic) as they were installed in $SYBASE/SYSAM-2_0/licenses.
The SySAM notification window prompts you to configure your server for e-mail notification. When configuration is enabled, you receive information about license management events that require attention. Select Yes and either accept the default values that are supplied, or enter values for the following (from your worksheet):
SMTP server host name
SMTP server port number
Sender e-mail
Recipient e-mail
Message severity level of an event that will trigger e-mail. Your choices are:
Informational
Warning
Error
If you choose not to have e-mail alerts or severity messages logged, select No.
Click Next.
When you receive a message indicating that Mirror Replication Agent was successfully installed, click Finish.
For more information, see the Mirror Replication Agent Installation Guide.
To verify the installation
Change to the directory ($SYBASE) where you installed Mirror Replication Agent.
Set the environment variable by sourcing the SYBASE.csh file.
Change the directory to $SYBASE/MA-15_0/bin.
Obtain the Mirror Replication Agent version string:
ma.sh -v
You should see the Sybase copyright and the Mirror Replication Agent version string.
