Installing the ECDA Option for Oracle

If ECDA Option for Oracle is already installed, go to “Configuring Mirror Activator components”.

When installing ECDA for Oracle, install ECDA on the same server as the standby database. This eliminates a network hop and improves performance.

Installing ECDA for Oracle in GUI mode

To install using the console mode or a response file, see the ECDA Installation Guide for Linux and UNIX.

Use one of the following methods to download the software:

After following the download instructions from the SPDC in the section “Accessing products from the SPDC”, go to the location where you extracted the ECDA Option for Oracle 15.0 installation image.

Insert the CD labeled ECDA 15.0 Option for Oracle for Sun Solaris.
Launch InstallShield by executing the Sun Solaris setup routine:
```
./setup
```
If you see an error message saying that there is not enough temporary disk space, add the following to your setup command:
```
./setup –is:tempdir someDirectory
```
Here, someDirectory is a directory with at least 100MB of disk space that the installation program can use.
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 ECDA:
- In the destination directory, enter the base directory identified by the SYBASE environment variable ($SYBASE). Click Yes to install over an existing directory.
- If the destination directory exists, you receive a warning message that you are installing into an existing directory. Click Yes.
Select Custom setup, and click Next.
Unselect ECDA Option for ODBC, and click Next.
Verify the modules to install. Click Next.

If you receive a message stating that your current installation contains newer files than those that are about to be installed and asking you if you want to replace these files, click No.
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?
```
Respond based on how you set up your environment and use the license obtained from the Software Product Download Center (SPDC) Web site for Mirror Activator.

Click Next.
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 your own values for the following fields:
- SMTP server host name
- SMTP server port number
- Sender e-mail address
- Recipient e-mail address
- Message severity level of an event that triggers an e-mail message. 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 ECDA was successfully installed, click Finish.

ECDA, including the DirectConnect server, is installed.
Download the ECDA 15.0 ESD #3:
1. Point your Web browser to the Sybase Support Page.
2. Select EBFs/Maintenance. If prompted, enter your MySybase user name and password.
3. Select EnterpriseConnect Data Access. A list of EBFs and maintenance releases appears.
4. Find the EBF containing the ECDA 15.0 ESD #3 for your platform, for example:
```
EBF xxxxx: 15.0 ESD #3
```
  Here, xxxxx is the number of the EBF containing the ECDA 15.0 ESD #3 for your platform.
5. Click the Info icon to display the EBF/Maintenance report, and click the product description to download the software.
Apply the ECDA 15.0 ESD #3:
1. Extract the tgz or zip file for the ECDA 15.0 ESD #3 that you downloaded in the previous step.
2. Go to the directory into which you extracted the zip file.
3. Install the ECDA 15.0 ESD #3 in the same way that you installed ECDA earlier in this procedure, beginning with step 2.