About Installation

This section addresses issues that might apply to your installation, depending on what Sun GlassFish Portfolio components you are installing and how your system is deployed.

• Before You Install Components

• Installation Notes

The documentation that you might want to examine first for each component includes the Release Notes (which usually includes system requirements), the Installation Guide, and the Getting Started Guide or the Quick Start Guide.

Before You Install Components

Each of the Sun GlassFish Portfolio components has system requirements that might mean the component could be incompatible with your system. For example, your operating system might not be at the required level. Before installing a component, it is important to review the system requirements for the component:

• Enterprise Server System Requirements

• Web Stack System Requirements

• Web Server System Requirements

• Web Proxy Server System Requirements

• Message Queue System Requirements

• Web Space Server System Requirements

• Enterprise Service Bus document collection

• HADB System Requirements

• Enterprise Manager components

  • Performance Advisor System Requirements

  • Performance Monitor System Requirements

  • SNMP Monitoring System Requirements

Installation Notes

The following issues might apply to the components you are installing or the environment you are installing the Sun GlassFish Portfolio into:

• If You Are Installing Web Stack

  • Web Stack does not support Windows.

  • You need to verify that your operating system is at the right level. For information, see Web Stack System Requirements.

• If You Are Installing Gold and Platinum Components and You Need HADB

  There are two Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v2.1 download files. One file includes HADB, and one does not. The download file that you should use begins with sges_ee...