Installation on UNIX

This procedure copies the CONNX client components from a client PC to a UNIX target. There are separate installation packages for each of the UNIX target systems. The CONNX Administrator component must be installed on the client PC.

1. After you launch the Install Shield Wizard for CONNX Client, select the transfer method. If the target system does not have an FTP, SFTP, or SCP server enabled, select Manual Copy Installation and click Install.

This action creates the necessary installation files in the UNIXCLIENT\TEMPINST subdirectory of the CONNX installation directory. Move these files via an alternate copy method to the UNIX server and proceed to step 5.

2. If the target system has an FTP, SFTP, or SCP server enabled, select that method and enter the following login information: TCP/IP host name or address for your system platform, user account name, user account passowrd, and alternative directory (optional). By default, the CONNX client data is sent to your home directory.

3. Click Install. The installation is complete.

4. If the CONNX client is not installed successfully, check the relevant log file for any errors. If the files fail to copy via the FTP, SFTP, or SCP session, use the Manual Copy Installation transfer method.

5. Once the files are copied manually, a dialog box appears asking you to log on to your system and run the installclient shell script.

6. Run ./installclient .

7. The following installation options are available: Install Client Only to use an existing license server that might be running on a different machine; Install Client and License Server to install the client and license server on the same machine; Install License Server Only to install the license server only. Select an option and press Enter to install to current directory or enter a new install path at the prompt. The manual installation is complete. Click Done in the installation wizard.

If you select Install Client and License Server, the script installs the License Server on your UNIX Machine as localhost with the address 7501. After this installation script is run, the License Server is automatically invoked. In the future, you can start/stop or check the status of the License Server by invoking the script ./licenseserver, located in the CONNX folder. The parameters to this script are start, stop, and status.

8. To run the CONNX client, add the correct location of the registry files (64 and 32-bit) and the environment variables (CONNXREGISTRY and CONNXREGISTRY64) pointing to the correct location of the registry files to the env list.

For example, add the entries export CONNXREGISTRY=<LocationOfRegistry>/connxreg.db export CONNXREGISTRY64=<LocationOfRegistry>/connxreg64.db to the startup profile of any user that runs the CONNX client application. The location of the registry is specified during the client installation or by default is the same folder in which the CONNX client is installed.

export CONNXREGISTRY=<LocationOfRegistry>/connxreg.db
export CONNXREGISTRY64=<LocationOfRegistry>/connxreg64.db