Installation of Progress Database
Installation of progress open-edge will be very easy if you know what exactly you are doing, where the installation files are, where you want to install this, which application will be using this, where exactly Apache java are installed.
You should have root access to install Progress in UNIX like machines, log in to server and switch to root user, you always should be in /tmp directory to install the progress Openedge.
~#cd /tmp
/tmp#/installation/path/directory/
proinst
when you hit above command you will be directed to below screen where it check the JVM and lets you select the required version.
It is must that JVM should be installed in your machine where you going to install progress Open-edge, usually progress consultants will always prefer java 1.5
you can check which java version is installed in your PC by hitting command
java -version.
press
y and
hit enter you will be directed to next window.
Welcome screen of installation.
hope you agree for the copyrights
hit enter.
you will be next directed to license screen where you have to insert the licenses.
information required are,
- company name (which is owning the license)
- serial number
- control number
you can enter multiple licenses by hitting
Enter company name will remain same serial and control number will varies.once you done with entering all the licenses hit
ctrl + E. it will prompt you to ask whether you have done entering all the licences
hit y.
Next screen which appears is below.
OpenEdge Explorer functionality is provided within the browser interface for the OpenEdge Management.
When the AdminServer is running, a web browser such as Internet Explorer or FireFox may be directed to http://localhost:9090 (the default location of the OpenEdge Management / Explorer connection).
hit y if you have installed openedge app svr enterprise license.
if you hit Y you will be directed to below screen
Here you have to give JAVAHOME path which will be $JAVA_HOME environment variable.
hit enter to next screen.
below screen will ask 3 important things,
- Type of installation
- complete install
- custom install select complete install which will install all the package which comes under it.
- Destination path name
- Here you have to put destination of the openedge which will be $DLC and work directory destination.
- Management Path name
- here you have to put the management path and work directory management.
Once you complete entering all the directory hit enter when marker is on
continue with installation.
Next screen will be Sonic ESB installation.
Sonic ESB is an enterprise service bus (ESB) which simplifies the integration and flexible reuse of business components using a standards-based, service-oriented architecture (SOA). Sonic ESB connects, mediates, and controls services, wherever they are deployed and eliminates hard-wired service dependencies. Sonic ESB provides fast, dependable and secure communications and transactional fail over of service interactions. Sonic ESB operates across domains, physical networks, and corporate boundaries.
We dont need it in standard installation
hit n.
next screen which appears is
It allows you to build applications that use HTML, XML, WML, DHTML, and most other mark-up languages (MLs) as the user interface.
hit y enter to next screen where you need to provide some configuration for webspeed.
this screen will asks for 3 steps
- Type of webspeed
- sun webserver
- CGI -compatible (always prefer this apache needs CGI compatible works on all machine)
- Select web-server script directory
- enter the cgi-bin directory path of apache directory
- /path/to/apache2/cgi-bin
- copy static HTML
- enter the same path which you have mentioned above.
continue with installation hit enter.
next section will be language selection section. hit enter to select and enter to proceed next screen, you can select as many language you want.
After that next screen which appears is settings for languages.
- character setting, collation, case setting
- select American,united states,IS08859-1,basic,basic (if you selected English -American in prev screen)
- select date format (according to your company standard).
- select number format (according to your company standard).
continue with installation.
Webspeed adapter URL you can change if you want.
hit enter to next screen.
you can hit y only if you need it if not press N,
you can also enable it once complete the installation also.
Here comes the screen before installation which will brief your product details which you going to install
hit y to proceed.
once installation completes below screen will appear.
hit enter
this will be last screen of installation. enjoy the facilities of progress openedge.
