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Overview of OnLine Installation Steps

Overview of OnLine Installation Steps

InstallingOnLine 5.x involves three major steps, which are summarized here.
For detailed information, see theUNIX P roductsInstallation Guide.
Important: For each step, you must be logged in asroot.
1. CreateUNIX environment:
■Create user informix.
■Set INFORMIXDIR.
■Set PATH.
■Change your directory to $INFORMIXDIR.
2. Load OnLine 5.x software:
■Copy Informix files into the Informix installation directory.
3. Install OnLine 5.x:
■Run ./installonline to change owner, group, and mode of
product files.
Overview of OnLine Initial Configuration Tasks
OnLineinitial configuration includes configuration planning and disk-space
initialization. The rest of this chapter provides instructions for the initial
configuration tasks.
SinceOnLine 5.x is already installed in $INFORMIXDIR, you can use a UNIX
editor to examine the configuration filetbconfig.std that is described in the
followingpages. You can also access the OnLine monitor facility,DB-Monitor.
To do so, log in as userinformix and enter the command tbmonitor at the
command line.