WA1254 Lab Setup Guide

Minimum Hardware Requirements

• P Series 375 Mhz or faster
• 512MB RAM
• 9 GB Hard Disk
  • Make sure you have 2 gig’s free under /usr
  • Make sure you have at least 150 Megs free under /tmp.
  • Make sure you have at least 2 gig’s free under /.
• CD-ROM drive
• LAN Adapter
• Networked
• DNS setup or a small DNS setup through the hosts file
• Internet Access (strongly recommended)One Windows Machine setup for the instructor
• PIII 733Mhz or higher
• 512MB RAM (1 Gig strongly recommended)
• 10GB Hard Disk
• CD-ROM drive
• LAN Adapter
• Networked
• Internet Access (strongly recommended)

Minimum Software Requirements

• AIX V5.1 with 5100-05 maintenance pack. (The patch installation can be found in this bundle) *
• WebSphere V5.1 for AIX *
• WebSphere Network Deployment V5.1 for AIX *
• DB2 V8.1 EE for AIX *
• ASTK for Windows *

* – indicates software provided by Web Age Solutions on CD.

Installation

Note: The drive with the installation files will be referred to as drive X: , please substitute this drive letter with the appropriate CD or network drive letter.

Receive the following CD(s) from Web Age Solutions:

• WebSphere V5.1 AIX
• WebSphere Network Deployment V5.1 AIX
• DB2 V8.1 EE AIX
• ASTK for Windows
• AIX Maintenance patch.
• Install the AIX Maintenance patches following the patch installation guide that can be found in the setup zip you received.
• Create a directory called software/WebSphere under /.
• Copy the contents of the WebSphere V5.1 AIX CD to /software/WebSphere.
• Create a directory ND under /software.
• Copy the contents of the WebSphere Network Deployment V5.1 AIX CD to /software/ND.
• Refer to the DB2 Setup guide for the DB2 installation. The DB2 setup guide can also be found in the setup zip you received.
• Untar the supporting zip to all the machines in the class. Unzip the supporting zip to the instructors machine.
• (Instructor Machine) Copy the contents of the ASTK for Windows CD to a new folder ASTK under C:/.
• (Instructor Machine) Click the link ASTK Setup for installation of ASTK.
• Make sure all the computers are on a DNS or edit the hosts file of every computer to the hostname of every network computer and then test the connectivity by typing ping hostname of the network computer.

A sample host file for three computers named classroom1, classroom2, classroom3 is below.

• 127.0.0.1 localhost classroom1
• 192.168.1.1 classroom1
• 192.168.1.2 classroom2
• 192.168.1.3 classroom3