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Verifying Siebel Gateway Prerequisites

Review the following guidelines before installing the Siebel Gateway.

CAUTION: Do not install Siebel eBusiness Applications without first reviewing the System Requirements and Supported Platforms documentation.

If the machine on which you are installing the Siebel Gateway will also support a Siebel Server, you must also have all the required third-party products installed for that component, as listed in System Requirements and Supported Platforms.

NOTE: On UNIX, the Siebel Gateway and Siebel Server are both installed into a common root, $SIEBEL_ROOT.

If you will be clustering servers, plan your use of clustering or redundant disk arrays (RAID) to configure against a single point of failure. Do not enable Central Dispatch on a Siebel Gateway if you will be clustering it.

Each machine that will support a Siebel Server must have TCP/IP network connectivity to the machine on which the Siebel Gateway will be installed. Verify network connectivity between all such machines, using the ping utility.

Verify that the network adapter is correctly configured to support full duplex Ethernet. Verify the following parameters.

RJ45 Port Link Status: up

Media Speed Selected: 100 Mbps Full Duplex

Media Speed Running: 100 Mbps Full Duplex

Install the Siebel Gateway only once for each Siebel Enterprise Server. It is recommended that you only install one Siebel Gateway on a machine. If needed, multiple Siebel Enterprises can be supported by a single Siebel Gateway Name Server. If multiple Siebel Gateway Name servers are installed on a single machine, they should be installed on different ports.

Verify that the network names of the servers that will support the Siebel Gateway and all Siebel Servers are recorded in Deployment Planning Worksheets. You will need this information later when installing the Siebel Servers and Siebel clients.

Make sure that the login running the installer has write permissions to /tmp (AIX default temporary directory) or /var/tmp (Solaris and HP-UX default temporary directory), as appropriate to your UNIX operating system.

Verify that you have the following temporary disk space available to the installer.


AIX	130 MB
Solaris	90 MB
HP-UX	210 MB

AIX installations only

If the set-group-id flag is used, make sure that the installer ID is a member of the group that owns the parent (Siebel) directory.

Verify that the login running the installer has permission to run slibclean.

You must install X11 filesets, because these are not installed by default.

HP-UX installations only

If the environmental variable LANG is set to a directory name that is a symbolic link, the Java installer for Siebel Server will fail. You must reset any existing LANG variable to the actual directory that the symbolic link represents.

NOTE: The LANG variable cannot be set to univ.utf8. This causes the installer to fail.

You cannot install additional products into a root directory after applying a patch.

NOTE: Using third-party terminal emulators is not supported when connecting from a Windows machine to a UNIX server to perform a GUI installation. Running the GUI installer from one UNIX machine to install on another UNIX machine or on the local UNIX machine is supported. If you need to use a Windows machine to perform a UNIX installation, telnet to the UNIX server and install in console mode. For details on installing in console mode, see Console-Mode Installation.