Reference Information › Appliance Catalog Reference Guide › System_ms Catalog › Generic Appliances › WIN03S, WIN0364S, WIN03E, WIN0364E, WIN03DC, WIN0364DC, WIN03W,WIN08S, WIN0864S, WIN08E, WIN0864E, WIN08DC, WIN0864DC, WIN08W WIN0864W: Generic Windows Servers

WIN03S, WIN0364S, WIN03E, WIN0364E, WIN03DC, WIN0364DC, WIN03W,WIN08S, WIN0864S, WIN08E, WIN0864E, WIN08DC, WIN0864DC, WIN08W WIN0864W: Generic Windows Servers

Functional Overview

WIN03S, WIN0364S, WIN03E, WIN0364E, WIN03DC, WIN0364DC, and WIN03W are general server appliances. They can be branched to make new server appliances: singletons or server classes.

Each includes a reasonably complete installation of its OS, including the GCC compiler if available. This allows installing and building software on the branched appliances.

The generic server appliances are designed to be used in two ways:

• As a customized server by branching the base class to form singleton and modifying its class volume appropriately
• As a template for building other server appliances by using it as a base to create new application-specific or global catalog classes.

Important! Server means virtual server. Virtual servers are similar to appliances in all aspects except intent (virtual servers are made to be logged into for the installation of additional software) and volume size (much bigger than appliance's volumes).

The following appliances are not currently distributed with CA AppLogic®. For additional information on creating appliances, refer to the Windows Installation Reference in the Appliance Developer Guide.

Resources

Windows Server 2003 Resources

32-bit appliances

64-bit appliances

Terminals

Note:

• One use of the net output is to connect it to the Subnet Output Gateway to download software to be installed on the server. Once you are finished installing, you can disconnect the gateway (or make it standby).
• If you branch one of the server appliances to create your custom appliances, you may want to remove the unnecessary interfaces.

Volumes

Servers have only a boot volume (instantiable class volume). There are no placeholder volumes (although when you branch this class to create a customized server, you can add a placeholder volume).

Notes

See the Windows Appliance Notes for significant details on the operation of Windows appliances under CA AppLogic®.

Note:

• The appliance hostname (set to appliance instance name) cannot be longer than 15 characters. Setting the appliance instance name to more than 15 characters will result in a hostname truncated to the 15th character.
• The Windows Server appliances (WIN03X) by default use a random Administrator password for security purposes. If this is not desired, change the password as described in the Windows Appliance Notes.
• The Windows Server appliances generate a new random password whenever the appliance class name changes. If you want to disable this behavior, open a Cygwin bash shell on the running appliance and edit the script /appliance/appliance.sh and insert a line exit 0 after the initial comment block.

3rd party open source software used inside of the appliance

WIN03X uses the following 3rd party/open source packages from Cygwin in addition to any 3rd party/open source packages which may be installed with Windows itself.