The Mirror Replication Agent installation process creates a directory structure containing the Mirror Replication Agent binaries, scripts, Java Runtime Environment (JRE), and associated files. There are no configuration steps during installation.
Before you install Mirror Replication Agent, see the Mirror Replication Agent Installation Guide.
While installing Mirror Replication Agent:
Verify that the operating system patch levels are at the current level required to support Java 6.0. This is necessary to support the JRE installed with Mirror Replication Agent.
Install Mirror Replication Agent for Oracle on a server where it can directly access the Oracle online redo logs and the archived redo logs or access a mirrored copy of these logs.
Create a Mirror Replication Agent instance and configure it for the Oracle database from which you want to replicate.
Installing Mirror Replication Agent software
Use one of the following methods to install 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 Mirror Replication Agent 15.2 for Sun Solaris installation image, or
Insert the Mirror Replication Agent CD into your CD drive.
Execute the setup routine for Solaris:
./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.
If you are installing from a remote machine and do not
have an
X-Windows client, execute ./setup –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. If you 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 the license-mrx.lic license file where it was installed ($SYBASE/SYSAM-2_0/licenses), or you can move the file to the SYSAM-2_0/licenses directory of your SYSAM license server. In either case, the Mirror Replication Agent will verify the necessary license.
If you answer No, no further action is needed. The Mirror Replication Agent will use the installed license (license-mrx.lic) as it was installed in $SYBASE/SYSAM-2_0/licenses.
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 these values:
SMTP server host name
SMTP server port number
E-mail return address
Recipients of the notification
Message severity level of an event that will trigger 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 Mirror Replication Agent was successfully installed, click Finish.
See the Mirror Replication Agent Installation Guide.
Change to the directory where you installed Mirror Replication Agent.
Set the environment variable by sourcing the SYBASE.csh file.
Change to $SYBASE/MA-15_2/bin.
Obtain the Mirror Replication Agent version string:
./ma.sh -v
If Mirror Replication Agent installs successfully, you see the Sybase copyright and the Mirror Replication Agent version string.
