Planning Your Installation

Review the latest information for this release and ensure that your environment is ready to install.

  1. Review the RAP Users Guide to familiarize yourself with the current SAP® Sybase® RAP architecture.
  2. Consult the documentation for the product components (SAP HANA (or Adaptive Server® Enterprise), Sybase IQ, Event Stream Processor, and Sybase Control Center) you are installing to ensure you:
    1. Obtain the latest information on the components.
    2. Plan your client and server installations appropriately.
    3. Have sufficient available disk space to install the RAP components. See the Disk Space Requirements topic.
    4. Have an operating system that meets the version level and network protocol requirements for your platform.
    5. Have a login with appropriate permissions for all the RAP installation tasks.
  3. Install operating system patches, if required. If you are having trouble starting an installer, make sure you have the required operating system patches for the Java Runtime Environment (JRE).
  4. If you use a SySAM license server, see the Sybase Software Asset Management (SySAM) 2 Users Guide for information on how to run it, and how to install the license onto the license server.
  5. Verify that your network software is configured. Sybase software uses network software even if the SAP HANA (or Adaptive Server) and Sybase IQ client applications are installed on a machine that is not connected to a network.
  6. To verify your network configuration, ping the host.
  7. On your Adaptive Server Enterprise server machine, allocate a shared memory segment that is at least as large as the Adaptive Server total logical memory configuration parameter.
  8. Ensure that the system clocks on all machines in the RAP system have the same time.