5
Manual Installations

Chapter summary

You can manually configure Administrator and Super administrator workstations as thick or thin clients.

List of topics

This chapter includes the following topics:

• Creating a Thick-Client Administrator or Super Administrator on a PC

• Creating a Thin Client Administrator or Super Administrator as Part of a Cluster

Creating a Thick-Client Administrator or Super Administrator on a PC

Introduction

This topic describes how to create a thick client or Super administrator workstation on a PC.

Procedure: Setting up an Administrator or Super administrator workstation

Follow these steps to set up an Administrator or Super administrator workstation on a PC:

1. Use Installer to install the client and server components of a Super administrator workstation.

   Note: This installation creates a directory structure, a set of configuration files, a set of shell databases, and a Super administrator personal database for use by the Super administrator.

2. Start the system using thin client mode.

3. If you are configuring a thick-client Administrator workstation, use Installer and the Financial Analyzer User Maintenance features to install and set up an Administrator workstation.

4. Install a thick-client Budget workstation on the PC, naming the new personal database the same name as the personal database that you are moving.

   Performing this step places a code database, which is necessary for a thick-client installation, on the PC. It also installs a system configuration file in the same directory.

5. Move the personal database that you created in Step 1 to the directory where the personal database for the thick-client Budget workstation is located.

6. If configuring an Administrator workstation, edit the ofasyscf.cfg file on the PC and update the [Super] section with the information contained in the [Super] section of the corresponding ofasyscf.cfg file in the shared directory of the Administrator component.

Creating a Thin Client Administrator or Super Administrator as Part of a Cluster

Introduction

This topic describes how to create a thin client or Super administrator workstation as part of a cluster.

Procedure: Setting up an Administrator or Super administrator workstation on an existing cluster

Follow these steps to set up an Administrator or Super administrator workstation as part of an existing cluster on a Unix or NT server:

1. Install and start up an Administrator or Super administrator workstation.

2. If you have not installed the cluster where this Administrator or Super administrator workstation will be located, install it.

   The Administrator or Super administrator workstation will use the code database that is created as part of the cluster installation.

3. Move the personal database and personal configuration file for the Administrator or Super administrator workstation from its installed location to the new location in the cluster.

4. Edit the personal configuration file and set the SHAREDCFGPATH setting to the SHARED directory for the cluster.

5. If the system configuration file (ofasyscf.cfg) does not exist in the SHARED directory of the cluster, create it.

   For information about how to create this file, refer to Chapter 4.

6. If configuring an Administrator workstation, edit the ofasyscf.cfg file in the shared directory of the cluster and update the [Super] section with the information contained in the [Super] section of the corresponding ofasyscf.cfg file in the shared directory of the Administrator component.