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Verifying Network Connectivity

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You must verify that your servers are properly connected to the network and—through the network—to each other.

To verify network connectivity between the Siebel Server, Siebel Gateway, Siebel Database Server, and Siebel File System

Verify network connectivity to the Siebel Gateway and Siebel Database Server from the Siebel Server, using the test utility for your network type.

For TCP/IP networks, use the ping utility to verify network connectivity to the Siebel Database Server and Siebel Gateway.

Verify connectivity to the Siebel Database Server:
Oracle. Use the tnsping utility and Net8, (or Net9, as appropriate to your database), database alias from a Command Prompt window to make sure that you can connect to the database, using the network connect string that you defined in the previous step.
DB2 UDB. Open a db2 shell to make sure that you can connect to your database, as follows:
Enter:

 db2 connect to database_alias user user_ID using password

where:

user_ID is a valid user name on DB2, and password is the appropriate password for that user name.

If your connection is valid, you should see a message that looks like the following:

 The connection test is successful

 Database Server      = DB2/AIX|Solaris x.x.x
 SQL authorization ID = SADMIN
 Database alias        = NAME

If your connection is not valid, verify your configuration.

To close the connection, type db2 terminate.

The Siebel Server installation will create its own ODBC data source.

Provide a network connection from the Siebel Server to the file system.
Verify that the file system directory is visible and that the Siebel service owner or Resonate manager account can copy files to and from it.

Network connectivity to the Siebel Gateway, Siebel Database Server, and file system is now verified.

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