Sun ONE Application Server 7, Enterprise Edition Installation Guide |
About This Guide
This Installation Guide provides instructions for installing the Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) Application Server 7, Enterprise Edition product.
The following topics are addressed here:
Who Should Use This GuideThis manual is intended for system administrators, network administrators, evaluators, application server administrators, and developers who want to install the Sun ONE Application Server software.
This guide assumes you are familiar with the following:
How This Guide is OrganizedThis guide contains the following documentation components:
- Chapter 1, "Preparing to Install"—Provides information on the installation components, installation methods, and requirements for installing Sun ONE Application Server 7, Enterprise Edition software
- Chapter 2, "Installing Enterprise Edition Software"—Provides instructions for installing the Sun ONE Application Server 7, Enterprise Edition software components. Includes instructions for performing a non-interactive silent installation.
- Chapter 3, "Preparing for HADB Setup"—Provides instructions for configuring shared memory, and setting up host communications and the user environment for the high-availability configuration.
- Chapter 4, "Post-installation Tasks"—Describes additional tasks you may need to perform during or after installing the Sun ONE Application Server software.
- Chapter 5, "Uninstalling the Enterprise Edition Software"—Provides instructions for uninstalling the Sun ONE Application Server 7 software. Includes instructions for performing a non-interactive silent uninstallation.
- Chapter 6, "Troubleshooting"—Provides information on logging as well as solutions to problems you may encounter during or after installation or uninstallation.
- Appendix A, "Installation Cheatsheet"—Provides a checklist of the summarized tasks of installing the Sun ONE Application Server Version 7, Enterprise Edition software.
Using the DocumentationThe Sun ONE Application Server 7, Enterprise Edition manuals are available in Portable Document Format (PDF) and Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) on the documentation CD that is distributed with the product.
The following table lists tasks and concepts described in the Sun ONE Application Server manuals. The left column lists the tasks and concepts, and the right column lists the corresponding manuals.
Documentation ConventionsThis section describes the types of conventions used throughout this guide:
General Conventions
The following general conventions are used in this guide:
- Font conventions include:
- The monospace font is used for sample code and code listings, API and language elements (such as function names and class names), file names, path names, directory names, and HTML tags.
- Italic type is used for code variables.
- Italic type is also used for book titles, emphasis, variables and placeholders, and words used in the literal sense.
- Bold type is used as either a paragraph lead-in or to indicate words used in the literal sense.
- Installation root directories for most platforms are indicated by install_dir in this document.
- Instance root directories are indicated by instance_dir in this document, which is an abbreviation for the following:
default_config_dir/domains/domain/instance
Conventions Referring to Directories
By default, when using the Solaris 8 and 9 package-based installation, the application server files are spread across several root directories. These directories are described in this section.
- install_dir refers to /opt/SUNWappserver7, which contains the static portion of the installation image. All utilities, executable files, and libraries that make up the application server reside in this location.
- default_config_dir refers to /var/opt/SUNWappserver7/domainswhich is the default location for any domains that are created.
- install_config_dir refers to /etc/opt/SUNWappserver7/, which contains installation-wide configuration information such as licenses and the master list of administrative domains configured for this installation.
Product SupportUse your early access support process for any product or documentation issues and for submitting defects.
If you have general feedback on the product or documentation, please send this to appserver-feedback@sun.com.
If you have problems with your system, contact customer support using one of the following mechanisms:
- The online support web site at:
http://www.sun.com/supportraining/
- The telephone dispatch number associated with your maintenance contract
Please have the following information available prior to contacting support. This helps to ensure that our support staff can best assist you in resolving problems:
- Description of the problem, including the situation where the problem occurs and its impact on your operation
- Machine type, operating system version, and product version, including any patches and other software that might be affecting the problem
- Detailed steps on the methods you have used to reproduce the problem
- Any error logs or core dumps
For More InformationUseful information can be found at the following Internet locations:
- Sun ONE products and services information
http://www.sun.com/service/sunps/sunone/index.html
- Sun ONE developer information
http://wwws.sun.com/software/product_categories/application_development.html
- Sun ONE learning solutions
http://wwws.sun.com/software/training/
- Sun ONE product data sheets
- Sun Microsystems product documentation