| # The Installation Wizard To install the selected Installable Units of the Staging Wizard, the Infor Installation Wizard must be started. 注意 During the installation it is possible that you are asked fo fill in new company numbers. Do not create company numbers with a number of 100 or lower. The range of zero through 100 is reserved by Infor for delivering demo and base data. During updates of demo and base data problems arise if a duplicate,company number is created for operational use. Close all running applications and to start the installation, complete the following steps: Logon to the system. You can use your own logins; however, the user must have administrator rights. To start the installation, run the `startfirst.exe` file directly from the Start directory in the staging area. A screen will appear with several options. Click the Installation Wizard link at the left section of the screen. Click the Start Installation Wizard link at the center of the screen. The Welcome dialog is displayed. Click Next. The Environment dialog box appears. Enter a new Environment name, or choose an existing environment from the list. Click Next. To continue with the Select Installable Units dialog box, click Next. The list in the Select Installable Units dialog box details which units you can select for installation; to select a unit, click the unit. Click Next. The Select Porting Set dialog will appear. Select the Porting Set applicable for your Operating System, and click Next. The Host Name dialog box appears. The Host Name is the system name of the (Master) Application Server where you install your Infor LN software. The dialog boxes differ for Remote and Local installations. When installing on Windows, the fields are already filled. Check the filled information and, to continue, click Next. The Destination Directory dialog box will appear. The path you must enter is the directory in which the Infor LN software will be installed. Default is as follows: c:\Infor\ERPLN\bse It is recommended to have bse as the last subdirectory in the destination directory. If the target directory does not exist, you will be asked to create the target directory. To continue, click Yes Click Next. The Setup Type dialog box will appear. Select one of the three different setup types: The Master Application Server (MAS) The Application Server (AS) DB-Connection Note that for a first install, a Master Application Server (MAS) is mandatory. Before you can install an AS or DB connection to set up an Enterprise Cluster, you must have an MAS installed. For more specific information about the Application Server, refer to Installation and Configuration Guide for the Application Server (U8392 US). Click Next to choose the database type in the Database dialog box which, you prepared to store the repository of the Infor LN software. From this stage onwards, the dialog boxes of the Installation Wizard can differ for each RDBMS choice. The remainder of this example installation provides a description of an installation on the Microsoft SQL Server database. If you have prepared another RDBMS, for support, use HELP (F1). The Installation Wizard does not automatically create directories for database data files or check if they do or do not exist; you must have already created these directories. Select the locale and character set in the Locale dialog box that you want to use. For more information click Help. Click Next. The Database Server Location dialog box appears. Select a database server location. Your choice depends on whether you want to install your database repository on your Infor LN server (Master Application Server) or on another server. To continue, click Next. The Database Connection Information dialog box will appear. Enter the host name of the machine where the database server will reside; this information is required to connect to the correct database. Click Next. The Database Users and Group dialog box will appear. Define the users and a group for, in this case, the SQL Server database: The SQL Server System Administrator is sa. To avoid problems, it is recommended that you assign a password to sa ｢.｣ A default name for the Infor Database Group is <ENV>db (<ENV> is the environment name). In the Password field, type a password you want to associate with the group. The current user field is filled. Enter the database password for the current user. Make sure the user is is present in the database and that the password is correct. To continue with the Database Configuration Parameters dialog box, click Next. The Truncate Log on Checkpoint option ensures that production database recoverability is maintained. You must only select this option if regular backups are not performed and if space for log files must be regularly freed up, such as demo systems. The AutoGrow option controls whether database storage files (data, log) created by the administration utility will automatically grow as needed when their existing space is exhausted. To continue with the Database Device Locations and Sizes dialog box, click Next. Enter the locations and sizes for the data and log files. For specific information, click Help. To continue, click Next. The Program Folder dialog box will appear. Indicate in which folder and under what name this Infor LN installation must be saved. A default name is Infor ERP. Type or select an existing program folder name or create a new folder. To continue with the Logic Service dialog, click Next: If you want to use a seperate account to start the Infor ES Logic Service, you must supply the account information here. Make sure that you supply the correct password. Click Next. The Parallel Processes dialog box will display. Select the number of processes your hardware can simultaneously support (for multiprocessor computers). To continue with the Company dialog box, click Next. If you have selected the "Infor LN Enterprise Business Model" for installation, enter the company number you want to use for the Business Models and click Next. Do not create company numbers with a number of 100 or lower. If you have selected the "Infor LN Master Data Implementation Model" for installation, enter the company number you want to use for this Model and click Next. Do not create company numbers with a number of 100 or lower. To continue with the Select Base VRCs for PMC solutions, click Next. Select the Base VRCs for which the PMC solutions must be installed. Select one or more Base VRCs and click Next. For more specific online information, click Help. The Configuration Files dialog box appears. Note that changing these configuration files can have serious consequences. Select the configuration files you want to change. To continue, click Next. If you select the bse_vars file, the bse_vars file dialog box appears. This dialog box can be filled with specific settings for the Infor ERP environment. For example, in case more versions of DB2 are installed on the same system, you must set a shared library path environment variable. This environment variable allows you to use the correct libraries with the DB2 version you want to use for the Infor LN installation. For more information, check the pre-installation guide for UNIX (U8073 US) and the pre-installation guide for Windows (U8072 US). Click Next. If you also selected the storage_param file, the Configuration File: storage_param dialog box appears. The dialog allows you to fill the storage_param with specific settings for the database. To display the default entries of the storage_param file, click Defaults. Select an entry you want to edit. For specific information about the storage_param file entries, consult the Technical Reference Manual applicable for your database. To continue, click Next. If, the Installable Unit SLM is also selected. A screen about SLM appears. To continue, click Next. The Host Name dialog box will appear. Supply the host name of the computer on which the SLM will reside. During the installation on Windows, the hostname is already filled. For more information, click Help. Supply the Destination Directory for the SLM software, such as the following: C:\program files\slm Click Next. If you also selected the Installable Unit for Application Service Manager (ASM) during this installation, a screen about ASM appears. On windows, the location for the ASM software is Local. To continue with the Host Name dialog box, click Next. The Host name and Login name of your local machine are specified. To continue with the Destination Directory dialog box, click Next. Supply the destination directory for the ASM software and click Next. During UNIX installations, this box is already filled. During installation on a Windows machine, a Windows Password dialog appears. Fill in the password and click Next. The Installation Components dialog box will appear. Select one of the Installation Components. In this case, the Server and the Snap-in option is selected, which means you will install all available components. On Windows you can also just select the Server or the snap-in option. With the snap-in, you can configure the Server. On UNIX, only the Server option is available, because snap-ins cannot be installed on UNIX. To continue, click Next. The Jobs dialog appears. Fill in the mechanism and click Next. The Ready to Install dialog box appears. Check the information in this dialog box. To make adjustments, click Back. Otherwise, to start the installation, click Install. After the installation has finished succesfully you must reboot your Windows system. On UNIX this is not necessary. |