Installation guide

Installing Across Multiple Machines
32 iPlanet Web Server, Enterprise Edition Installation and Migration Guide • May 2001
12. Go to the https-adminserv directory under your server root directory (for example
/usr/iplanet/servers) and start Administration Server by typing ./start. You
can also type
./startconsole in the server root directory.
startconsole starts the Administration Server and launches a browser to the
Administration Server administration pages.
13. To configure your iPlanet Web Server, use the URL:
http://server_name:administration_port
For example:
http://www.iplanet.com:8888
Enter your administration user name and password.
You can now configure your iPlanet Web Server. For more information, see the iPlanet
Web Server Administrator’s Guide.
Installing Across Multiple Machines
You can install iPlanet Web Server, Enterprise Edition on multiple machines using two
different methods: templatized installation and silent installation.
Templatized installation is executed from your local machine, where you run the
installation program silently across multiple remote machines at once.
Silent installation requires that you first install the web server on a local machine, then edit
the resulting log file,
install.inf, to correspond to the remote machines. With silent
installation, you must install the remote instances one by one.
Both methods are described in this section.
• Using Templatized Installation
• Using Silent Installation
Using Templatized Installation
To use templatized installation, enter the installation settings for each remote machine in a
template file called
template.inf. You can then use the template to install the web server
on multiple machines from a single session on your local machine. The
template.inf file
is found in the same directory as the setup program.