Installation and Configuration Directories on UNIX

The installation process creates these high-level directories. The locations documented here often use 77 within location names or when discussing the release level. However, this number may vary for your particular installation and use an alternate level, such as 82.

Note: Some Linux platforms also support RPM installation. In the context of an RPM installation, locations described here also exist under /opt/ibi or the --prefix value used during the rpm -i step.

Name

Environment Variable

Description

Default Path

Home directory

EDAHOME

Stores the server software programs and other files

ibi/srv77/home

Must conform to the following pattern

*/ibi/srv77*/home*

Configuration directory

EDACONF

Stores the configuration files.

If you are configuring multiple instances of the server, create separate configuration directories for each by adding a suffix (for example, a number) to the end of the directory name.

ibi/srv77/product_type

Must conform to the following pattern

*/ibi/srv77*/product_type*

Product type can be:

  • WFS for a WebFOCUS Reporting Server
  • FFS for a Full Function Server
  • DM for a DataMigrator Server
  • WFM for a WebFOCUS Maintain Server

Application directory

APPROOT

Contains your application files.

ibi/apps

Profiles directory

EDAPRFU

Stores the user and group profiles and the admin.cfg file (which specifies the server administrator).

ibi/profiles

Multiple WebFOCUS Reporting Servers. If you plan to install multiple copies of WebFOCUS on the same computer, and you want to provide each copy with its own WebFOCUS Reporting Server, you may wish to maintain a separate ibi root directory for each copy, so that you can keep copies of each set of components, including the server, together in the same path.

You can specify a separate apps directory for each copy of WebFOCUS, or specify a single apps directory to be shared by all copies of WebFOCUS.

WebFOCUS

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