How to Install an Administration Server and the First Web Server Instance

Before You Begin

Before you can deploy the Administration Server and a Web Server instance, you must have the Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 2005Q4 SP5 installation files saved on the target server. For more information, see Sun Java Enterprise System 2005Q4 Installation Guide for UNIX.

Be sure to create the JES_ADMIN_PASSWORD and WEB_ADMIN_PASSWORD session variables. For more information, see How to Create Session Variables.

Steps

1. Click the Sun Java System WS 6 icon under the Common Tasks section of the left control panel.

2. Click the Install Web Admin Server: install link.

3. Click the Run button.

4. In the Plan Parameters table, in the Variable Settings column for the WebAdminServer component, click Select From List.

   The Select a Variable Setting window opens.

5. From the list of Variable Settings, change the following variables as described in the following steps.

   1. Set the installPath variable to the path on the target server where you want to install the state file that contains the name/value pairs needed to install the Administration Server.

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      Note –

      The value for the installPath variable is treated as a relative path to the default Remote Agent directory, unless you specify an absolute path, such as /opt or c:\mydir. For example, for a Windows Remote Agent, if you set the installPath variable to c\mydir and deploy the file to an Agent with a default home directory of c:\Program Files\N1 Service Provisioning System\agent, the file is deployed to c:\Program Files\N1 Service Provisioning System\agent\c\mydir.

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   2. Set the JES_Media_Directory variable to the path to the Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 2005Q4 SP5 installation binary on the target server.

   3. (Optional) Set the hostDomain variable to the actual domain name of the target server.

   4. If you are installing the Administration Server on a Linux server, change the following variables:

      • Set the jesSystemGroup variable to root.

      • Set the webInstanceUser variable to nobody.

      • Set the webInstanceGroup variable to nobody.

   5. Click the Select button.

   For information about other Variable Settings, see WebAdminServer Component.

6. Select the target hosts.

7. Click the Run Plan (includes preflight) button.

   The InstallWebAdminServer plan completes the following tasks:

   • Installs the Administration Server and one Web Server instance.

   • If you set the webAutoStart variable to yes, starts the Administration Server and the Web Server instance.

   • If you set the webAutoStart variable to yes, verifies that the Administration Server and the Web Server instance are running.