Preinstallation Tasks

Prepare for the installation.

Sybase Control Center employs a client/server architecture that allows multiple clients to monitor and manage all supported Sybase servers in an enterprise using a small number of Sybase Control Center servers—often, you need only one. The Sybase Control Center 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 will see better performance if you install Sybase Control Center near the monitored servers and near the workstations on which the clients are running.
    • 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 might 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 spaces (Program Files, for example) or non-ASCII characters. If the file system already includes a Sybase directory, consider installing SCC there.