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Installation Prerequisites

Before you install the product, check the following prerequisites:

• Privileges required

  In order to install CA XCOM Gateway on Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 2003, or Microsoft Windows 2008, you must log on to Microsoft Windows as a user with administrator privileges. On UNIX or Linux, you must log on as a user with root privileges.

• System Libraries for Linux

  The CA Embedded Entitlements Manager (EEM) installation requires library libstdc++.so.6 to exist in the usr/lib directory. This library can be installed from rpm libstdc++ if it has not been previously installed as part of your operating system.

• JBoss installation

  CA XCOM Gateway requires that a copy of the JBoss Application Server must be installed. Additionally, even though the JBOSS_HOME environment variable is recommended but not mandated by JBoss, it is always required by CA XCOM Gateway. Before installing CA XCOM Gateway, verify that this environment variable is defined and correctly set to indicate the path for the JBoss installation directory.

  For Windows, environment variables can be accessed in either of the following ways:

  • By right clicking Computer or My Computer within Windows Explorer
  • By right clicking the Start Menu, then selecting Properties, Advanced Settings, Environment Variables

  For Linux, set environment variables as follows:

  1. Open the /etc/profile file in the vi editor.
  2. Move to the end.
  3. Add the following lines:

     JAVA_HOME=<JDK Installation Directory Path>
     export JAVA_HOME
     JBOSS_HOME=<JBOSS Installation Directory Path>
     export JBOSS_HOME
     

  Note: Use this procedure to set the environment variables permanently on any of the supported Linux platforms.

• Database preparation

  CA XCOM Gateway needs access to a DB2 or MySQL database server; the product installer automatically creates the required database tables within a designated database.

  Notes:

  • For MySQL, the installer can either create a new database or use an existing one.
  • For DB2, the installer is unable to create a new database and this must be done using DB2 administration tools before installing CA XCOM Gateway.

  To enable creation of tables (and optionally, for MySQL only, the creation of a database), the installer requests the following:

  • The user ID and related password for a database administration user account that has the necessary create and drop structure privileges.
  • The user ID and related password for a database user account that is to be used subsequently by CA XCOM Gateway whenever it needs to access or update its database tables.

    This second account requires read and update privileges for all tables within the CA XCOM Gateway database, but does not need any structure or administration privileges or access to any other database.

  To enable database access by CA XCOM Gateway, the installer also requires a copy of the JDBC connector/driver for the appropriate database system. In the case of DB2 only, a copy of the JDBC Driver License is also needed.

• Free disk space

  Approximately 40 MB of disk space is required for the software files created by a full product installation of CA XCOM Gateway. In addition, disk space is required for the CA XCOM Gateway database, logs, and trace files, and for the CA XCOM Gateway staging area, in which CA XCOM Gateway stores uploaded files. The amount of space needed varies, depending on the size of the database, the number and size of uploaded files, and configured retention periods.

• CA Licensing and ALP license keys

More Information:

See the following:

• The chapter "Create the CA Certificate" in the CA XCOM Data Transport for z/OS Administration Guide
• The CA XCOM Data Transport for z/OS Installation Guide