More Info. Version 2 of Vision Solutions Portal supports portal applications for the following Vision Solutions products:

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1 More Info MIMIX Installation Wizard The MIMIX Installation Wizard provides a simple way to download, distribute, and install MIMIX Availability software to an IBM Power System or to multiple systems simultaneously. In addition, the MIMIX Installation Wizard also does the following: Uses Vision AutoValidate to easily and automatically obtain and apply license keys. Performing this function automatically through Vision AutoValidate requires coordination between the MIMIX Installation Wizard, your systems, and Support Central. Firewall or other restrictions in your environment may prevent the Vision AutoValidate function from working automatically. In this case, the MIMIX Installation Wizard will direct you on how to obtain a License Key Package (LKP) from Support Central. You will be asked to upload system information in License Request Files and download the generated LKP file. The MIMIX Installation Wizard will then request the location of that file. Automatically installs the Vision Solutions Portal server and MIMIX portal application. The server provides support for browser-based user interfaces to Vision Solutions products which provide portal applications. The MIMIX Installation Wizard does not support installing into a library located on an independent ASP. If you cannot use the MIMIX Installation Wizard, the Using License Manager book contains installation procedures and supporting information for installing using the 5250 emulator. The Vision Solutions Portal (VSP) User s Guide contains information about other methods for installing Vision Solutions Portal (VSP) Software choices when installing The MIMIX Installation Wizard offers the following choices for what software to install: MIMIX. This choice is the default. It installs MIMIX Availability software, License Manager, Vision Solutions Portal, and the MIMIX portal application. The wizard uses Vision AutoValidate to obtain and apply license keys for your licensed MIMIX Availability software, which can be MIMIX Enterprise, MIMIX Professional, MIMIX Global, or MIMIX DR. MIMIX portal application. This saves the MIMIX portal application to the system and installs or updates the Vision Solutions Portal server as needed. License Manager. This installs only License Manager Prior to installing either MIMIX or License Manager, end other Vision Solutions products running on the same systems as MIMIX. Vision Solutions recommends that if you are running MIMIX on systems where you run ioptimize, that you synchronize the install or upgrade schedule with the MIMIX upgrade. Supported portal applications Version 2 of Vision Solutions Portal supports portal applications for the following Vision Solutions products: MIMIX and Vision Solutions are registered trademarks of Vision Solutions, Inc. MIMIX Availability Manager, MIMIX Director, MIMIX Global, MIMIX Enterprise, MIMIX Professional, and Vision AutoValidate are trademarks of Vision Solutions, Inc. i5/os, IBM, iseries, Power, and System i are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Copyright 2010, 2014 Vision Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved. 1

2 MIMIX Availability 7.1 (MIMIX Professional, MIMIX Enterprise, MIMIX DR, MIMIX Global ) MIMIX Availability 7.0 (MIMIX Professional, MIMIX Enterprise, MIMIX Global ) ioptimize 7.1 or MIMIX Director 8.1 Double-Take RecoverNow for AIX 4.1 for AIX Double-Take RecoverNow for AIX 4.0 for AIX The server platform on which VSP is installed may support a limited set of portal applications. Also, earlier versions of portal applications may not be able to be installed on some platforms. Portal applications for products other than MIMIX are not deployed by this wizard. IBM Power Systems requirements Before launching the wizard, ensure that your systems meet the following requirements: TCP communications must be configured and operational between the systems in your environment, as well as between your PC and the systems. The system name or IP address that is used to login to the systems from the PC also needs to be usable between the systems. The operating system must be IBM i V5R4 or higher. The software you install may require higher levels of the operating system. Option 30, IBM i - QShell Interpreter, of the operating system (5722-SS1 or SS1) is required. The QSYS/QUSRWRK subsystem must be active on all systems. Your user profile must have all the special authorities for each system. The special authorities are *ALLOBJ, *AUDIT, *IOSYSCFG, *JOBCTL, *SAVSYS, *SECADM, *SERVICE, and *SPLCTL. When using the wizard, system security is controlled through the wizard s IBM i Login panel. All actions on the system are performed under the user profile with which you log in. The port used for file distribution must not be in use or blocked by a firewall between systems. The Distributed Data Management (DDM) server must be started on all systems using the IBM Start TCP/IP Server (STRTCPSVR) command. Also, use the Display Network Attributes (DSPNETA) command to verify that network attribute DDM Request Access is set to *OBJAUT. This attribute cannot be set to *REJECT. The wizard requires that the following IBM i host servers be running on each system: as-central in QSYSWRK subsystem (*CENTRAL) 2

3 MIMIX Installation Wizard as-dtaq in QSYSWRK subsystem (*DTAQ) as-file in QSERVER subsystem (*FILE) as-rmtcmd in QSYSWRK subsystem (*RMTCMD) as-signon in QSYSWRK subsystem (*SIGNON) as-svrmap in QSYSWRK (*SVRMAP) To ensure that the IBM i host servers have been started, use the command: STRHOSTSVR SERVER(*ALL) Client (PC) system requirements Before launching the wizard, ensure that your client workstation meets the following minimum requirements: Note: Closing other applications will improve the performance of the wizard. 256 MB free RAM One of these operating systems: Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows 2008 R2, Windows 7, Windows 8 (x86 and x64), or Windows Server 2012 (x64) Minimum 8-bit color depth (256 colors) Minimum 1024 x 768 resolution Adobe Acrobat Reader to view service pack Readme PDFs Location The wizard installs 7VSI001 *BASE and option 2 into library VSI001LIB if they are not already present on the system. Depending on what software you choose to install, option 13 may also be installed. The wizard stores and optionally removes MIMIX software at the system IFS location /Lakeviewtech/Upgrades. If the MIMIX software for this upgrade is already located in this directory, the wizard provides the opportunity to use those files. Using those files can reduce the amount of time required for the distribution phase. Vision Solutions Portal server software and product portal applications are stored on the system at IFS location /visionsolutions/http/vsisvr. Portal applications are stored and deployed from the system IFS location /visionsolutions/http/deploy. DASD on IBM Power Systems The MIMIX Installation Wizard copies MIMIX software to the IFS directory /Lakeviewtech/Upgrades on each system defined to your MIMIX installation. The size of a MIMIX software upgrade can be large 300 megabytes (MB) or more and it is common to have several MIMIX software files in the directory at a given time. When the MIMIX Installation Wizard successfully completes an installation or upgrade, the MIMIX Installation Wizard gives you the opportunity to automatically delete the files in the IFS directory. 3

4 If you choose the option to have the MIMIX Installation Wizard save your MIMIX installation library during an upgrade or service pack installation process, the save files are placed in a temporary library named MXIWIZnnnn, where nnnn is a unique identifier obtained from a timestamp. You can then delete these libraries at your convenience. Vision Solutions Portal requires the following memory and disk space after is it installed. RAM - 1 GB Disk space 350 MB for VSP 25 MB for each installed portal application, plus additional storage for each configured instance Communication The wizard uses the systems Host Servers as access points to the system in order to copy software and save files from the PC to the systems. Each server runs in a separate job on the server, and each server job sends and receives data streams on a socket connection. The wizard uses the MIMIX communication path to copy MIMIX software from one system to another if MIMIX is active. The wizard uses TCP/IP to transfer files from one system to another. A TCP/IP connection requires an open port upon which the connection is established. If the default port number (54321) is already in use or is blocked by a firewall, you will need to specify an alternative port number. Port numbers between 12,000 and 55,000 are open on most systems. Shut down products When upgrading, you will be prompted to shut down MIMIX on one or more systems defined to your MIMIX installation. The wizard does not shut down MIMIX for you. When installing MIMIX software or the MIMIX portal application, default options will cause the wizard to shut down the Vision Solutions Portal server if necessary. This affects access to all instances, including those for other products. If you have other Vision Solutions products that are managed by License Manager on the same systems as MIMIX, you will also need to shut them down prior to upgrading. To determine what products are managed by License Manager, use the LAKEVIEW/WRKPRD command. Additional details The MIMIX Installation Wizard installs or upgrades one MIMIX installation library at a time. In order to install or upgrade an INTRA installation, MIMIX Installation Wizard must be run twice once for the installation library and once for the INTRA library. 4

5 MIMIX Installation Wizard Troubleshooting Install log files: Two install log files are created each time the wizard is run. One log is placed on the IBM i and the other on the PC where the installation wizard was run. These logs are not automatically deleted. The PC log contains more information than the IBM i log, and is always the preferable one to collect and use. It can be found on the PC at: C:\MIMIX_InstallL_Log.txt If for some reason the PC log is unavailable, you can find the IBM i log at the following system IFS location: /Lakeviewtech/Upgrades/install_log_day_mmm_dd_hh_mm_ss_zne_y yyy.txt If you encounter problems while using the MIMIX Installation Wizard and are unable to resolve the problem and need assistance, contact MIMIX CustomerCare. Installation failure - new/upgraded installation: If your new or upgraded installation fails or is cancelled before completion, you may be able to determine what caused the failure and take the appropriate steps to fix the problem. The system job information is displayed in the status pane. You can copy and paste job information from the MIMIX Installation Wizard status pane to the 5250 emulator command line. To assist you in resolving the problem, use the Work with Job (WRKJOB) command to view the system job log as follows: WRKJOB JOB(job_number/userid/job_name) After you have corrected the reason for the failure, click the Retry button from the Installing Panel. If you are unable to determine or correct the cause of the failure, contact Vision Solutions CustomerCare. Important! If you were unable to successfully upgrade, do not attempt to start your MIMIX installation. This could lead to an issue with your MIMIX configuration. A Certified MIMIX Consultant will assist you with the restoration process. MIMIX CustomerCare Should you encounter problems while using the wizard, visit our Contact CustomerCare webpage for a complete list of contact information. If you are current on maintenance, support for MIMIX products is also available from Support Central. It is important to include product and version information whenever you report problems. To locate this information for Vision Solutions Portal, select the Home folder in the navigation area, then select the Installed Products portlet on the Support page. 5