Before installing Adaptive Server:
Read the release bulletins for the latest information on the products (Adaptive Server, Monitor Server, and so on) that you are installing. See “Special Installation Instructions” in the release bulletin.
Install operating system patches, if required.
Recommended operating system patches are:
For HP-UX 11.00
PHKL_26448 (now superceded by PHKL_28060)
PHCO_26449
PHKL_26450
For HP-UX 11.11:
PHCO_25841
PHKL_26269
PHKL_25760
For HP-UX Itanium:
HP-UX 11iV2 (11.23)
If you are installing multiple server, you should review the SySAM procedures and plan your client/server configuration using the Configuration Guide for your platform.
Create a “sybase” account on your system to perform all installation tasks.
The “sybase” user must have permission privileges from the top (or root) of the disk partition or operating system directory down to the specific physical device or operating system file.
Log in to the machine as the “sybase” user.
Maintain consistent ownership and privileges for all files and directories. A single user—the Sybase System Administrator with read, write, and execute permissions—should perform all installation, upgrade, and setup tasks.
Decide where the Adaptive Server software will be installed. Make sure that there is sufficient available disk space. There cannot be any spaces in the path name of the directory.
Verify that the operating system meets the version-level, RAM, and network protocol requirements for your platform.
Verify that your network software is configured.
Sybase software uses network software even if Adaptive Server and Sybase client applications are installed on a machine that is not connected to a network.
If you are having connection problems, or to verify your network configuration, ping the host.
Adjust the operating system shared memory parameter.
For Adaptive Server to run, the operating system must be configured to allow allocation of a shared memory segment at least as large as the Adaptive Server total logical memory configuration parameter.
The default total logical memory parameter for HP is 32,768 2K pages (64MB) on the 32-bit operating system, and 45,056 2K pages (88MB) on the 64-bit operating system. To adjust the shared memory value of the operating system, use the System Administration Manager (SAM).
After you install Adaptive Server, you can change any configuration parameter, procedure cache, and data cache size. This may require the configuration parameter max memory that you increase.
Adjust shared memory segments.
Depending on the number and types of devices you use for backup (dump) and recovery (load), you may need to adjust the shared memory segment parameter in the operating system configuration file to accommodate concurrent Backup Server processes. The default number of shared memory segments available for process attachments is 6.
Adaptive Server may allocate shared memory segments after start-up if any reconfiguration through sp_configure requires additional memory. You may need to account for these additional segments. Allocate the maximum memory you will make available to Adaptive Server, by using the allocate max shared memory configuration parameter. See the System Administration Guide for more information.
To optimize asynchronos I/O and to prevent the paging of shared memory, you must grant MLOCK permissions before you install Adaptive Server.
To grant MLOCK permissions to a group, enter:
/etc/privgrp add mlock <group name>
or:
/etc/setprivgrp <group name> MLOCK
