Installation guide

Installing on OpenVMS Alpha
4.1 Pre-Installation
Rev. 1/9/01–A
Web-Based Enterprise Service Installation Guide 4–3
• Minimum 256 MB of memory (RAM) for running all WEBES components. 128 MB may
be adequate when installing only a portion of WEBES, but this setting has not been fully
tested. (Use the SHOW MEMORY command to see current values.)
• Minimum 512 000 blocks in PAGEFILE.SYS (Use the SHOW MEMORY command to
see current values.)
• Cluster Installations—If you are installing in a cluster environment, review the
guidelines in Section 4.3.1 Cluster Environments. You need to make decisions about what
node to install from and what disk to install to.
• Connectivity—either the UCX or TCP/IP service installed and running:
UCX in OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.1–2
TCP/IP in OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.2 and higher
• Account quotas—minimum pagefile quota is 300 000 pages.
Minimum byte limit quota is 170 000 bytes.
(You may require higher quotas in order to run additional applications.)
See “How to Change Quotas” for instructions on modifying these values.
• Ensure that the MULTITHREAD SYSGEN parameter is no greater than 16 before
installing WEBES. Use an editor to enter or modify the following entry in
sys$specific:[sysexe]modparams.dat:
MULTITHREAD=16
Then execute autogen specifying the beginning/ending phases for autogen, and use
feedback information. Note that the MULTITHREAD sysgen parameter is not dynamic.
A system reboot is required to change the value.
$ @sys$update:autogen GETDATA REBOOT FEEDBACK
• You can install WEBES by logging in under a system account or a privileged user
account.
• During installation, if you do not wish to install all components (Compaq Analyze,
CCAT, and RCM), you must answer NO to the following prompt: Do you want the
defaults for all options?
• DSNlink is not required for WEBES installation but, if installed, provides SICL
notification to your service provider.
• Be sure to see the Compaq Analyze documentation for hardware, firmware, and operating
system interoperability requirements.
• If an older version of WEBES was previously installed, uninstall it before continuing. See
Section 4.4,“Uninstalling WEBES” for instructions.
How to Get Operating System Patches
Download patches as follows:
1. Access the following URL:
http://www.compaq.com/support