Preinstallation Tasks

Prepare for the installation.

Sybase Control Center employs a Web-based multitier architecture that allows multiple SCC clients to monitor and manage all supported Sybase servers in an enterprise using a small number of SCC servers—often, you need only one. The SCC client is a rich Internet application that runs in a Web browser. It requires the Adobe Flash Player plug-in.

  1. Make sure the computer on which you plan to install Sybase Control Center meets the System Requirements and has good network connectivity to the servers it will manage and to the client workstations. Also consider these deployment issues:
    • Minimizing network latency – you see better performance if you install Sybase Control Center near the monitored servers and near the workstations on which the clients are running.
    • Unified Sybase Control Center environment – if you received Sybase Control Center along with a product managed by SCC (Adaptive Server, Data Assurance, Replication, or Sybase IQ), consider installing the SCC server in a central location, and adding all the individual product module plug-ins to that SCC installation. This lets you manage and monitor your servers from one SCC installation, which is especially useful in a replication environment.
    • Redundancy – if Sybase Control Center serves a mission-critical function in your organization, consider installing more than one Sybase Control Center server for failover.
    • Administration and security – you can exercise differing levels of control in different parts of your enterprise, for example, by protecting the data in some servers more strictly than in others.
  2. Involve others in the preparations, particularly if you are planning a UNIX deployment. Configuring SCC security on a UNIX server requires root privileges.
  3. Read the release bulletin to learn about known issues and changes that came up too late to be included in the Sybase Control Center help.
  4. Install patches for your operating system required for Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6, if any.
  5. Decide where in the file system to install Sybase Control Center. Do not install into a directory that is named using non-ASCII characters. If the file system already includes a Sybase directory, consider installing SCC there.