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.
- Review RAP basics.
- Plan your installation, complete all appropriate
worksheets, and refer to the worksheets when you install
the software.
- Review all preinstallation tasks and installation options.
- Read the release bulletins for the latest information
on the products (Adaptive Server® Enterprise, Sybase® IQ, and so on)
that you are installing.
- 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).
- 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.
- Make sure that there is sufficient available disk
space, and that the path name of the directory does not contain any spaces.
- Ensure that the operating system meets
the version level, RAM, and network protocol requirements for your
platform.
- 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.
- If you are having connection problems or need to verify your
network configuration, ping the host.
- Allocate a shared memory segment that is at least
as large as the Adaptive Server total logical memory configuration
parameter.
- Ensure that the system clocks on all machines in the RAP system have the same time.
- Ensure that the login used to install RAP has appropriate permissions for all installation tasks.