Installation

Synapta Services Builder, with its component-based architecture, is highly flexible and can provide a wide variety of host access solutions. Planning your installation involves understanding which components to install on which servers or clients, and how to handle issues such as load balancing. Each component is installed separately.

To ensure a smooth installation process and to optimize the performance of your Attachmate components, you can prepare by reviewing these topics:

• Installing in a Development Environment. A description of a typical development environment in which all components are installed on a single computer running Windows. At this stage, tasks can be created, published, and run without affecting the network or other users.

• Installing in a First-Level Production Environment. A description of a typical environment in which to conduct a pilot implementation. In this environment, tasks are published to a limited production environment where they can be tested.

• Installing in a Full Production Environment. A description of typical production environment, which may use multiple application and runtime servers, and run on a 24-hour schedule.

To provide server scalability and failover protection for the management components, you can install MCS on multiple servers across your network, creating a server cluster. For more information, see Managing MCS Servers and Clusters.

Review the terms of your license agreement before installing any components. You might have to purchase additional licenses to install certain components on separate computers.

In Windows environments, the installation process checks for the presence of an existing installation. In UNIX environments, you must uninstall any existing version before installing a new version. If you are upgrading from a previous release, you should upgrade all components on all servers and clients.

	Attachmate Synapta Services Builder Overview
	System Requirements
	Installing in Windows
	Installing in UNIX
	Upgrading