How to Create the Sybase ASE Database Environment

Before you perform this procedure, ensure that you have completed the following tasks.

• Establish a highly available IP address and name, that is, a logical hostname that operates at installation time.

• Locate device paths for all Sybase ASE devices-including the master device and system devices-in the highly available cluster file system. Configure device paths as one of the following file types.

  • Regular files

  • Raw devices

  • Files that the Solstice DiskSuite software or the VxVM software manage

• Locate the Sybase ASE server logs in either the cluster file system or the local file system.

• The Sybase ASE 12.0 environment consists of the data server, backup server, monitor server, text server, and XP server. The data server is the only server that you must configure-you can choose whether to configure all other servers.

• The entire cluster must contain only one copy of the interfaces file. The $SYBASE directory contains the interfaces file. If you plan to maintain per-node file copies, make sure the file contents are identical.

  All clients that connect to Sybase ASE servers connect with Sybase OpenClient libraries and utilities. When you configure the Sybase ASE software, in the interfaces file, enter information about the logical hostname and various ports. All clients use this connection information to connect to the Sybase ASE servers.

The Sun Cluster software supports only the Sybase ASE 12.0 Base 32-bit configuration.

Perform the following steps to create the Sybase ASE database environment.

1. Run the GUI-based utility srvbuild to create the Sybase ASE database.

   The $SYBASE/ASE_12-0/bin directory contains this utility. See the Sybase ASE document entitled "Installing Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise on Sun Solaris 2.x (SPARC)."

2. To verify successful database installation, make sure that all servers start correctly.

   Run the ps(1) command to verify the operation of all servers. Sybase ASE server logs indicate any errors that have occurred.

3. Set the password for the Sybase ASE system administrator account.

   See the Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise System Administration Guide for details on changing the "sa" login password.

4. Create a new Sybase ASE account for fault monitoring.

   This account enables the fault monitor to perform the following tasks.

   • Support queries to system tables.

   • Create and update user tables.

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   Note -

   Do not use the sa account for these purposes.

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   See "Sun Cluster HA for Sybase ASE Fault Monitor" for more information.

5. Update the stop file with the sa password.

   Because the stop file contains the sa password, protect the file with the appropriate permissions, and place the file in a directory that the system administrator chooses. Enable only the sybase_id user to read, write, and execute the stop file.

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   Note -

   If you set up another Sybase ASE configuration on the same cluster, do not use sybase_id as the user ID for the additional configuration.

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   See "Important Security Issues" for more information about the stop file.