The installation guide is for the Cluster Edition of Adaptive Server Enterprise, and provides:
An overview of the Sybase® Adaptive Server® Enterprise Cluster Edition installation infrastructure.
Instructions for installing and upgrading Adaptive Server, and installing Backup Server, Monitor Server, XP Server™, Job Scheduler, jConnect™ for JDBC™, Java utilities, and client products, including the Adaptive Server plug-in for Sybase Central™.
Instructions for installing optional Adaptive Server functionality, such as auditing, and sample databases, and localization information.
Instructions on how to install Adaptive Server with SySAM 2.0.
This guide is for Sybase system administrators and other qualified personnel who are familiar with their system’s environment, networks, disk resources, and media devices.
This book contains these chapters:
Chapter 1, “Overview,” provides an overview of Adaptive Server Cluster Edition. It also provides product descriptions and directory layout information.
Chapter 2, “Installing the Software,” describes pre-installation procedures, SySAM related tasks, and how to install server components.
Chapter 3, “Creating and Starting the Cluster,” describes how to configure and start a Sybase shared-disk cluster.
Chapter 4, “Post-installation tasks,” describes how to configure
Chapter 5, “Installing PC-Client,” describes how to install Adaptive Server client products like the Adaptive Server plug-in to Sybase Central.
Chapter 6, “IO Fencing,” describes IO fencing, and how to enable and set up the feature.
Chapter 7, “Upgrading from an Earlier Version,” describes how to upgrade an existing Adaptive Server to the current version.
Chapter 8, “Downgrading from Adaptive Server 15.0.2,” describes how to downgrade from Adaptive Server Enterprise 15.0.2.
Chapter 9, “Downgrading Adaptive Server 12.5.4,”describes how to downgrade from Adaptive Server Enterprise 12.5.4.
Chapter 10, “Troubleshooting SySAM,” provides information about and solutions to SySAM-related errors.
Chapter 11, “Troubleshooting,” provides installation error messages and possible solutions to installation and configuration problems.
Chapter 12, “Removing Adaptive Server,” describes how to uninstall Adaptive Server.
Appendix A, “Alternative Installation Methods,” describes how to install Adaptive Server in noninteractive mode.
Appendix B, “Manually Setting Up and Managing the Cluster,” describes how to manually configure and manage a shared-disk cluster.
Appendix C, “A sybcluster Sample Session,” provides a sample sybcluster session.
Appendix D, “Creating Raw Partitions in Linux,” describes how to upgrade servers with replicated databases.
Appendix E, “Upgrading Servers with Replicated Databases,” describes how to create partitions, bind partitions for raw disk I/O, and access raw devices from Adaptive Server.
Appendix F, “Using sybsystemprocs,” describes how to use the sybsystemprocs database.
The Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise documentation set consists of:
The release bulletin for your platform – contains last-minute information that was too late to be included in the books.
A more recent version of the release bulletin may be available on the World Wide Web. To check for critical product or document information that was added after the release of the product CD, use the Sybase Technical Library.
The Installation Guide – describes installation, upgrade, and preliminary configuration procedures for all Adaptive Server and related Sybase products.
Sybase Software Asset Management Users Guide – describes asset management configuration concepts and tasks.
Users Guide – describes the new features in Adaptive Server version 15.0, the system changes added to support those features, and changes that may affect your existing applications.
Component Integration Services Users Guide – explains how to use the Adaptive Server Component Integration Services feature to connect remote Sybase and non-Sybase databases.
Glossary – defines technical terms used in the Adaptive Server documentation.
Historical Server Users Guide – describes how to use Historical Server to obtain performance information for SQL Server and Adaptive Server.
Job Scheduler Users Guide – provides instructions on how to install and configure, and create and schedule jobs on a local or remote Adaptive Server using the command line or a graphical user interface (GUI).
Monitor Client Library Programmer’s Guide – describes how to write Monitor Client Library applications that access Adaptive Server performance data.
Monitor Server Users Guide – describes how to use Monitor Server to obtain performance statistics from SQL Server and Adaptive Server.
Performance and Tuning Guide – is a series of four books that explains how to tune Adaptive Server for maximum performance:
Basics – the basics for understanding and investigating performance questions in Adaptive Server.
Locking – describes how the various locking schemas can be used for improving performance in Adaptive Server.
Optimizer and Abstract Plans – describes how the optimizer processes queries and how abstract plans can be used to change some of the optimizer plans.
Monitoring and Analyzing – explains how statistics are obtained and used for monitoring and optimizing performance.
Quick Reference Guide – provides a comprehensive listing of the names and syntax for commands, functions, system procedures, extended system procedures, datatypes, and utilities in a pocket-sized book.
Reference Manual – is a series of four books that contains the following detailed Transact-SQL® information:
Building Blocks – datatypes, functions, global variables, expressions, identifiers and wildcards, and reserved words.
Commands – commands.
Procedures – system procedures, catalog stored procedures, system extended stored procedures, and dbcc stored procedures.
Tables – system tables and dbcc tables.
System Administration Guide – provides in-depth information about administering servers and databases. This manual includes instructions and guidelines for managing physical resources, security, user and system databases, and specifying character conversion, international language, and sort order settings.
System Tables Diagram – illustrates system tables and their entity relationships in a poster format. Available only in print version.
Transact-SQL Users Guide – documents Transact-SQL, the Sybase enhanced version of the relational database language. This manual serves as a textbook for beginning users of the database management system. This manual also contains descriptions of the pubs2 and pubs3 sample databases.
Using Adaptive Server Distributed Transaction Management Features – explains how to configure, use, and troubleshoot Adaptive Server DTM features in distributed transaction processing environments.
Unified Agent and Agent Management Console – describes the Unified Agent, which provides runtime services to manage, monitor and control distributed Sybase resources.
Utility Guide – documents the Adaptive Server utility programs, such as isql and bcp, which are executed at the operating system level.
Web Services Users Guide – explains how to configure, use, and troubleshoot Web Services for Adaptive Server.
XA Interface Integration Guide for CICS, Encina, and TUXEDO – provides instructions for using the Sybase DTM XA interface with X/Open XA transaction managers.
XML Services in Adaptive Server Enterprise – describes the Sybase native XML processor and the Sybase Java-based XML support, introduces XML in the database, and documents the query and mapping functions that comprise XML Services.
FLEXnet Licensing End User Guide – this Macrovision manual explains FLEXnet Licensing for administrators and end users and describes how to use the tools which are part of the standard FLEXnet Licensing distribution kit from Sybase.
SAMreport Users Guide – this Macrovision manual explains how to use SAMreport, a report generator that helps you monitor the usage of applications that use FLEXnet licensing.
Use the Sybase Getting Started CD, the SyBooks™ CD, and the Sybase Product Manuals Web site to learn more about your product:
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The SyBooks CD contains product manuals and is included with your software. The Eclipse-based SyBooks browser allows you to access the manuals in an easy-to-use, HTML-based format.
Some documentation may be provided in PDF format, which you can access through the PDF directory on the SyBooks CD. To read or print the PDF files, you need Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Refer to the SyBooks Installation Guide on the Getting Started CD, or the README.txt file on the SyBooks CD for instructions on installing and starting SyBooks.
The Sybase Product Manuals Web site is an online version of the SyBooks CD that you can access using a standard Web browser. In addition to product manuals, you will find links to EBFs/Maintenance, Technical Documents, Case Management, Solved Cases, newsgroups, and the Sybase Developer Network.
To access the Sybase Technical Documents Web site, go to Technical Documents.
Technical documentation at the Sybase Web site is updated frequently.
Finding the latest information on product certifications
Point your Web browser to Technical Documents.
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Finding the latest information on component certifications
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Select Search to display the availability and certification report for the selection.
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The following style conventions are used in this manual:
In a sample window display, commands you should enter exactly as shown are given in:
this font
In a sample window display, words that you should replace with the appropriate value for your installation are shown in:
this font
In the regular text of this document, the names of files and directories appear in this font:
/usr/u/sybase
The names of programs, utilities, procedures, and commands appear in this font:
sqlupgrade
Commands for both the C shell and the Bourne shell are provided in this document, when they differ. The initialization file for the C shell is called .cshrc. The initialization file for the Bourne shell is called .profile. If you are using a different shell, such as the Korn shell, refer to your shell-specific documentation for the correct command syntax.
Table 1 shows the conventions for syntax statements in this manual.
Key |
Definition |
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command |
Command names, command option names, utility names, utility flags, and other keywords are in san-serif font. |
variable |
Variables, or words that stand for values that you fill in, are in italic. |
{ }
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Curly braces indicate that you choose at least one of the enclosed options. Do not include braces in your option. |
[ ] |
Brackets mean choosing one or more of the enclosed options is optional. Do not include brackets in your option. |
( ) |
Parentheses are to be typed as part of the command. |
| |
The vertical bar means you can select only one of the options shown. |
, |
The comma means you can choose as many of the options shown as you like, separating your choices with commas to be typed as part of the command. |
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