To successfully install SAP® Mobile Platform for the first time, you must do a considerable amount of
planning, make a number of strategic decisions, and gather many specific pieces of information
about the technical environment into which you are installing. Upgrading an existing
installation also requires you to collect key pieces of information.
If you have an existing installation of SAP Mobile Platform to upgrade, after you have filled in the upgrade worksheet
for your scenario, go to the Upgrading chapter in this
document.
If you are about to perform a new installation of SAP Mobile Platform, before you run the installer for the first
time, go through the SAP Mobile Platform
Landscape Design and
Integration document and:
- Select one of
these
installation
scenarios
- Single-server installation
- Simple load-balancing cluster installation
- Installation with a standard Microsoft Failover Cluster
- Installation with a Microsoft Failover Cluster with shared hosts
Each of these is described in detail in
Landscape
Design and
Integration.
- Resolve all licensing issues.
Landscape Design and Integration
details all the licensing options, and how licenses are managed. It also provides
instructions for obtaining a license, if your company has not already purchased
one.
- Complete
the worksheet provided for the
scenario.
Use
the worksheet
to
record all the important information that
configure
values in the installer. The information in the worksheets is
organized in the same order
in
which the installer asks you to provide it.
Next
For new
installations,
proceed to the
instructions
for your chosen scenario: