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򐂰Option -D or -R determines which deployment method is to be used, D for
db2_install and R for response file.
򐂰Option -N specifies the NFS path which has been exported on the file server
machine Zaire. In our case, it is /tmp/v95ga/ese. This directory contains the
DB2 server image, db2_install, and db2setup as shown in Example 2-19.
Example 2-19 NFS path where db2 image has been extracted
# ls -l
total 120
drwxr-xr-x 6 daemon staff 4096 Jun 03 2008 db2
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 4700 Jun 03 2008 db2_deinstall
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 4570 Jun 03 2008 db2_install
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 4560 Jun 03 2008 db2prereqcheck
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 4552 Jun 03 2008 db2setup
drwxr-xr-x 16 bin bin 4096 Jun 03 2008 doc
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 4588 Jun 03 2008 installFixPack
drwxr-xr-x 5 root system 256 Jun 03 2008 nlpack
drwxr-xr-x 15 bin bin 4096 Jun 03 2008 readmefirst
-r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 1503 Jun 03 2008 readmefirst.htm
-r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 678 Jun 03 2008 readmefirst.txt
򐂰Option -H specifies all of the machines where the DB2 server are to be
deployed. Each machine name is separated by a comma (,). No spaces are
allowed between host names, before or after the comma.
򐂰Option -r specifies the name of the response file. It can not be used together
with option D. If used, it is ignored. The response file has to be placed on the
path specified by the option N.
We continue using the response file we used in 2.2.3, “Response file” on
page 48. In Example2-20, we copy it to /tmp/v95ga/ese.
Example 2-20 Copy response file to NFS path
# cp /tmp/db2rsp/db2ese.rsp /tmp/v95ga/ese/
򐂰All other command line options are for the db2_install command. They
follow the same syntax stated in the DB2 Information Center:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v9r5/topic/
com.ibm.db2.luw.admin.cmd.doc/doc/r0023669.html
Our script just passes these options to db2_install without change.
Note: Keeping the response file accessible and consistent to every
machine is critical to the success of the deployment. Therefore, it is placed
in the NFS path and shared with everyone.