Installing the Agent Software

1. Insert the CD in the CD-ROM drive installed on your local system.
2. Log in as root.
3. Set the display permission on your workstation:
     # xhost +myws
4. Configure the shell environment variable DISPLAY on your workstation. For example, if your workstation has the name "myws," type:

   For Bourne or Korn shell (sh or ksh):

   
        # DISPLAY=myws:0.0
        # export DISPLAY

   For C shell (csh or tcsh):

   
       # setenv DISPLAY myws:0.0

   Setting the DISPLAY environment variable in this way enables you to use the SD-UX graphical interface.

5. Create a mount point directory, /cdrom, if it does not exist. The directory must have read/write permissions.
6. Determine the block device file for the CD-ROM drive. The device file should have the form /dev/dsk/c#t#d#. Enter:
      # ioscan -fnC disk

   For example, the listing may indicate the CD-ROM drive's block device is /dev/dsk/c1t2d0; make a note of the device file as it applies to your system.

7. Run the following commands to start PFS (Portable File System):
     # nohup pfs_mountd &
     # nohup pfsd &
8. Mount the CD. For example, to mount the CD to the mount point /cdrom, enter:
     # /usr/sbin/pfs_mount -t rrip /dev/dsk/clt2d0 /cdrom

   Where /dev/dsk/c1t2d0 is the drive's block device file.

9. Type the following command to install the agent:
      swinstall -s /cdrom/informix_agent/VRTSvcsix
10. Repeat step 1 through step 9 on each system that will become part of the Informix service group.