Planning Your Installation

Determine what kind of installation best suits your needs and ensure that your environment is ready to install. Choose from custom, express, demonstration, and migration installations.

  1. Review RAP basics.
  2. Plan your installation, complete all appropriate worksheets, and refer to the worksheets when you install the software.
  3. Review all preinstallation tasks and installation options.
  4. Read the release bulletins for the latest information on the products (Adaptive Server® Enterprise, Sybase® IQ, and so on) that you are installing.
  5. Install operating system patches, if required. If you are having trouble starting the installer, make sure you have the required operating system patches for the Java Runtime Environment (JRE).
  6. Review the Adaptive Server Enterprise Configuration Guide to plan your client/server configuration. If you use a SySAM license server, see the Sybase Software Asset Management (SySAM) 2 Users Guide for information on how to run it, and how to install the license onto the license server.
  7. Make sure that there is sufficient available disk space, and that the path name of the directory does not contain any spaces.
  8. Ensure that the operating system meets the version level, RAM, and network protocol requirements for your platform.
  9. Verify that your network software is configured. Sybase software uses network software even if Adaptive Server and Sybase IQ client applications are installed on a machine that is not connected to a network.
  10. If you are having connection problems or need to verify your network configuration, ping the host.
  11. Allocate a shared memory segment that is at least as large as the Adaptive Server total logical memory configuration parameter.
  12. Ensure that the system clocks on all machines in the RAP system have the same time.