Preparing to Install Adaptive Server

Prepare your system before starting the installation.

1. Ensure that the account used to start the server has read and write permissions over the directory in which you are installing the server. You may need to create nonadministrative logins to install the server into personal directories.
2. Unset the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL variable.
3. Review the SySAM licensing procedures and plan your server configuration using the configuration guide for your platform.
4. Create a Sybase account with administrative privileges for consistency and security. This user account could be "sybase" or any other username. Use this account to perform all installation and device-creation tasks.

   This 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. 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.

   If you are installing Adaptive Server on more than one computer, create the "sybase" user account on each machine.

5. 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.

6. If you have enabled the Java in the database feature, create the sybpcidb database and disable the feature during the installation. See Managing Java in the Database During Installations and Upgrades.
7. Decide where to install Adaptive Server:
   • Make sure there is sufficient disk space and temporary directory space available.
   • Ensure that there are no spaces in the path name of the directory.
8. Decide whether you want licensing events to trigger e-mail alerts, and the severity of the events that generate e-mail messages.
   If you choose to have e-mail notifications for license events, know your:

   • SMTP server host name
   • Port number for an SMTP server
     Note: If Sybase assigns any port numbers to you for use with Adaptive Server, make sure to exclude these numbers from any port-scanning software you run. Adaptive Server attempts to service each scan as a login attempt, which could lead to poor performance.
   • E-mail return address
   • Recipients of the notifications
   • Severity level of an event that triggers mail. Your choices are:
     • None
     • Informational
     • Warning
     • Error
9. 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.

10. Adjust the shared memory for your operating system.

• Adjusting the Operating System Shared Memory Parameters
  Adjust shared memory segments if Adaptive Server cannot obtain large memory as a single segment or if Backup Server stripes fail due to insufficient segments.
• Managing Java in the Database During Installations and Upgrades
  If you have enabled the Java in the database feature, create the sybpcidb database before installing or upgrading to Adaptive Server version 15.7.