Informix embeddability deployment tutorial
The purpose of this tutorial is to provide steps and scripts needed for silent end-to-end deployment of HCL Informix® on Linux and Windows using the deployment assistant and the deployment utility.
The HCL Informix Embeddability
Toolkit is a logical collection of the following components:
- ifxdeployassist: the deployment assistant (DA).
- ifxdeploy: the deployment utility (DU).
- ifxdeploy.conf: the DU's configuration file.
- ifx_silent_deploy: an example script that automates silent deployment using DU. The Linux shell script and the Windows batch script for this silent deployment example are posted separately on the Technote at http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21446737.
The following tasks are covered in this tutorial for silent deployment
of Informix:
- Create a Snapshot for Deployment: Using the DA, archive an installed Informix server instance and its dbspaces on the template computer for future deployments.
- Silently Deploy Informix from the Snapshot: Using the DU, its configuration file, and ifx_silent_deploy, silently deploy a copy of the archived Informix server instance and its dbspaces on a target computer.