Installing the Enterprise Gateway on Linux

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Prerequisites

This document describes how to install the Enterprise Gateway components on Linux platforms. Please see the System Requirements to ensure that the target machine is of a suitable specification. For details on Enterprise Gateway components and concepts, see the Oracle Enterprise Gateway Architecture.

Install the Enterprise Gateway

To install the Enterprise Gateway, perform the following steps:

  1. Download the Enterprise Gateway tar.gz file.
  2. Use the appropriate tools on your platform to untar and unzip the archive distribution to a clean directory. The relevant files are installed to the directory from which you run these commands.

Start the Enterprise Gateway

To start the Enterprise Gateway from a shell prompt:

  1. Start a shell prompt.
  2. Change directory to the /posix/bin directory of your Enterprise Gateway installation.
  3. Start ./enterprisegateway. 

prompt# cd /usr/home/enterprisegateway/posix/bin
prompt# ./enterprisegateway -d

Important Note:
You can encrypt all sensitive Enterprise Gateway configuration data with an encryption passphrase. For example, you can specify this passphrase in your Enterprise Gateway configuration file, or on the command line when the Enterprise Gateway is starting up. For more details on configuring this passphrase, see Setting the Encryption Passphrase.

Start the Policy Studio

Follow these steps to start the Policy Studio from a shell prompt:

  1. Start a shell prompt.
  2. Change your Policy Studio installation directory.
  3. Start ./policystudio. 

prompt# cd /usr/home/policystudio
prompt# ./policystudio

Making a Server Connection
When the Policy Studio starts up, click a link to a server session to display the Open Connection dialog. You can use this dialog to specify Connection Details (for example, host, port, user name, and password), or to specify Saved Sessions.

If you wish to connect to the server using a non-default URL, click Advanced, and enter the URL. The default Enterprise Gateway server URL is: 

http://localhost:8090/configuration/deployments/DeploymentService

For more details on the settings in the Open Connection dialog, see Connection Details.