Informix Warehouse Accelerator prerequisites and requirements
Ensure that your system meets the prerequisites and the requirements for Informix® Warehouse Accelerator. You must have certain utilities installed. Cluster installations have additional requirements.
General prerequisites
Following are the
general prerequisites for Informix Warehouse Accelerator:
- You must have the Informix warehouse edition installed before you can install Informix Warehouse Accelerator.
- Only one instance of Informix Warehouse Accelerator can be installed on a computer.
- Both the Informix and Informix Warehouse Accelerator versions must be at the same release and fix pack level.
System requirements
Informix Warehouse Accelerator must be installed on a computer that uses a Linux® Intel x86 64-bit operating system. For the detailed list of supported operating systems and hardware, see the Informix Warehouse Accelerator system requirements: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=630&uid=swg27021332.
Required libraries
You must have the following libraries installed on the server where Informix Warehouse Accelerator is installed:
- libicu
- xerces-c
Required utilities
You must have the following
utilities on the server where Informix Warehouse Accelerator is installed:
- Telnet client program
- Expect utility (expect-5)
- su command
Requirements for Informix Warehouse Accelerator installed on a cluster system
Following are requirements for installing Informix Warehouse Accelerator on a cluster system:
- You must have a shared-disk cluster file system. For example, IBM® General Parallel File System (GPFS).
- For maximum performance in a shared cluster environment, all cluster nodes must have the same amount of memory and processor cores.
- The user root must be able to connect to all cluster nodes by using the Secure Shell (SSH) network protocol without a password.
- If user informix is used for Informix Warehouse Accelerator administration, user informix must be able to connect to all cluster nodes by using the Secure Shell (SSH) network protocol without a password.
- The file paths for the Informix Warehouse Accelerator installation files must be the same on each cluster node.