Installation checklist
The installation checklist contains the tasks you need to complete prior to installing Sterling B2B Integrator.
For a clustered environment, record the information for each node in the cluster.
Note: The clustered environment does not support the following items:
- AS2 Edition
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1 | Review your IBM contract to determine what software you have licensed. You need to know this License Information so that you can select the correct components/features to install. |
2 | Ensure that you have read and write privileges on the parent installation directory. |
3 | Determine which installation method you are going to use:
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4 | Decide which type of security certificates you will use:
For more information, see Security Certificates. |
5 | Determine the ports that are to be used. Sterling B2B Integrator requires a range of 200
consecutive open ports between 1025 and 65535. The port range starts with the initial port number
and ends with the number that equals the initial port number plus 200. Note: Because of RMI, on
occasion, a port number outside the range may be assigned.
For more information, see Port Numbers. |
6 | If you are using an Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, or DB2 database and if you are going to manually apply DDL statements, decide if you are going to manually or automatically apply Database Definition Language (DDL) Statements (schema) to the database. |
7 | If you are using an Oracle database, you must set it up for native compilation by
allocating space and by setting the plsql_native_library_dir parameter. |
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Important: If you are using Oracle SSL authentication, you cannot install or upgrade Sterling B2B Integrator. You must roll back the SSL
configuration to a Standard Oracle database connection before you install or upgrade Sterling B2B Integrator. This includes applying a
Fix Pack for Sterling B2B Integrator.
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9 | If you are using the Unix/Linux operating systems, verify the following items:
For more information, see UNIX accounts. |
10 | If you are using the Unix/Linux operating systems, verify that you have installed
the following software:
For more information, see Installing an X Windows system for Unix/Linux. |
11 | If you are using the Unix/Linux operating systems, set the ulimit and language as follows:
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12 | If you are using a messaging queue, add the required properties to the customer_overrides.properties file. For more information, see Properties for messaging queues. |
13 | Complete the installation worksheet. |