Installation Methods

You can run the installation procedure in:

• Interactive mode. This is the default installation mode. It displays windows that prompt you for installation parameters. We recommend that you use this mode the first time you install, so that you become familiar with the procedure. To install interactively, see Installing a Server.
• Silent mode. In this mode you launch the installation and specify a text file that contains the installation parameters. The installation procedure does not prompt for any information. Installing silently can be helpful if, for example, you want to install many instances at once throughout your enterprise. To install silently, see Installing and Configuring Silently.

There are several tools available for administering the server:

• Web Console, which is installed with the server on all platforms, and is available to all authorized users with a TCP/IP connection.

  For more information about the Web Console, see the Server Administration manual.

• Data Management Console, which is installed with the server on Windows, and is used primarily with DataMigrator.

  For more information about the Data Management Console, see the DataMigrator User's Guide.

You can install in a way that makes the Data Management Console available to remote users as a shared tool. You can choose between:

• Private access. You install in a standard Windows folder. The Data Management Console is available locally to users on that computer.
• Shared access. You install in a shared network folder specified using the Universal Naming Convention (UNC). The Data Management Console is available to remote users who access that shared folder.

  Before installing, you need to create a shared folder on the computer on which you will install the software.

  Access to the server by means of the Data Management Console (DMC) is limited by system security. To use the DMC, you can open it in several ways, such as:

  • Mapping a drive to the location of dmcstart.bat.
  • Creating a shortcut to dmcstart.bat on the user machine.

  The location of dmcstart.bat defaults to ibi\srv77\dm\bin.

  The Data Management Console is maintained locally on each client machine in Documents and Settings\UserID\Application Data\Information Builders. This requires 2M of disk space.

  To use the loopback node, reconfigure it to connect to the share server host name, replacing the host name, localhost.