You should already have reviewed Section 3.0, Planning a Basic Teaming Installation and filled out the Basic Teaming Installation Summary Sheet. The following sections step you through the process of installing and starting Novell Teaming on Windows.
Make sure that the Windows server where you plan to install Novell Teaming meets the system requirements listed in Section 2.1, Teaming Server Requirements.
If a Web server is currently running on the Teaming server, stop it, and preferably disable it.
For example, to stop and disable the Internet Information Services (IIS) Web server:
On the Windows desktop, click
.Right-click
, then click .In the
drop-down list, select .Click
, then click .Make sure that the Windows PATH environment variable includes the path to your database server.
Right-click
, then click .On the
tab, click .In the
list, locate the PATH environment variable.If the path includes your database server software directory, click
.or
If the path does not include your database server software directory, add the directory, then click
.Log in to the Windows server as a user with Administrator rights.
In Windows Explorer, browse to the directory where you downloaded and extracted the Novell Teaming software.
Make sure that there is a license-key.xml file in the directory.
The Teaming Installation program does not start without a license file, and it has a different name when you download it.
For more information about licensing, see Section 6.0, Updating Your Teaming License.
Double-click the installer-teaming.exe file to start the Teaming Installation program.
Accept the License Agreement, then click
.Click
to accept the default of .Click
to accept the default of .Use the information that you have gathered on the Basic Teaming Installation Summary Sheet to provide the information that the Teaming Installation program prompts you for:
The Installation program stores the information it gathers in the installer.xml file in the same directory where you started the Installation program.
After you have provided all the requested information, click
to begin the Teaming installation.When the installation is completed, click
to exit the Teaming Installation program.Information about the installation process is written to the installer.log file in the same directory where you ran the Installation program. If a problem arises during the installation, the installer.log file provides information that can help you resolve the problem.
Continue with one of the following sections, depending on how you want to run the Teaming software:
The Novell Teaming Installation program created a service.bat file for configuring Teaming to run as a Windows service.
In a Command Prompt window, change to the following directory:
c:\Program Files\Novell\Teaming\apache-tomcat-version\bin
where version is the version number of Tomcat that was installed along with Teaming (for example, 6.0.18).
Use the following command to configure Teaming as a Windows service:
service.bat install Teaming
This creates a service named Apache Tomcat Teaming.
On the Windows desktop, click
.Right-click
, then click .When you run Novell Teaming as a Windows service, you can configure Teaming to start automatically each time you reboot the Windows server.
On the Windows desktop, click
.Right-click
, then click .In the
drop-down list, select , then click .You need to restart Novell Teaming whenever you use the Teaming Installation program to make configuration changes, as described in Section 10.0, Performing an Advanced Teaming Installation.
On the Windows desktop, click
.Right-click
, then click .Close the Services window.
On the Windows desktop, click
.Right-click
, then click .Close the Services window.
The Novell Teaming Installation program created a startup.bat file for starting Teaming.
In a Command Prompt window, change to the following directory:
c:\Program Files\Novell\Teaming\apache-tomcat-version\bin
where version is the version number of Tomcat that was installed along with Teaming (for example, 6.0.18).
Run the startup.bat file to start Teaming as an application.
In a Command Prompt window, change to the following directory:
c:\Program Files\Novell\Teaming\apache-tomcat-version\bin
where version is the version number of Tomcat that was installed along with Teaming (for example, 6.0.18).
Run the shutdown.bat file to stop the Teaming application.
If you move the Novell Teaming site to a different server, you can delete the Teaming files from the original server to reclaim disk space. The default Teaming file locations are:
Teaming Software |
c:\Program Files\Novell\Teaming |
Teaming File Repository |
c:\Novell\Teaming |
MS SQL Database |
c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Data |
For a complete list of your Teaming files, check the installer.xml file in the directory where you originally ran the Teaming Installation program.