To distribute Enterprise Portal 6.0 across multiple EAServers, you must first perform a “typical” (full) installation of EP on the selected machine in your distributed environment. See “Performing a typical installation of Enterprise Portal 6.0”. The typical installation installs all the EP 6.0 components and creates and configures the portal database. Once the database is successfully created, the remaining machines require only custom installations. See “Performing a custom installation”.
The two methods for distributing EP across multiple EAServers are:
Install EP 6.0 on all machines.
Install EP 6.0 on one machine using the EP installation CD, then use the cluster sync to deploy the onepage Web application from the primary server to all the remaining secondary EAServers.
You can find information about setting up EAServer clusters http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1001689#load
Installing EP on all EAServers
Select a primary machine to run a typical installation against. This installs all the EP components, including the database.
The database may be on a remote machine in some cases.
After completing a successful typical EP installation, continue with custom installations for the remaining machines. See “Performing a custom installation”.
Select No when asked whether to reinstall the portaldatabase.
During installation, ensure that all machines are pointing
to the same database. This information is used to update the global.properties.xml file.
Change the host name for each subsequent installation of EAServer on the secondary machines. See “Configuring Portal Interface”.
In a distributed environment with more than one machine
running EAServer, make sure that each machine’s date, time,
and timezone are in sync. Otherwise, restarting the down EAServer
could expire your Enterprise Portal security session.
Installing EP 6.0 on one EAServer
This method requires that all EAServer installations are clean; in other words, that they do not have existing components installed.
Use the EP 6.0 installation CD to install EP on the EAServer on the primary machine.
Use the cluster sync to deploy the onepage Web application from the primary server to the secondary servers. All EAServers must reside in the same cluster.
You can find information about setting up EAServer clusters http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1001689#load.
