Retain Linux Install

Prerequisites

Disks

Additional Disks

1. Create additional disks for Retain best practices
   • Create the disks in the VM software
   • Format the disks in the VM itself using YaST/Partitioner
   1. • ARCHIVE
      • INDEX
      • LOGS
      • DATABASE (if local)

Retain 3.5

Install HTTP Server

1. Install http server (apache2) from YaST
2. If connecting to Exchange:
   1. Set DNS to Exchange server, in YaST/Network Settings

Install MySQL

1. 1. • Create a directory and download it
      • md /software/mysql directory and change to it
   2. download MySQL Community Server 5.5.42 [1] direct? [2] to that mysql directory
      • wget "http://dev.mysql.com/get/archives/mysql-5.5/MySQL-5.5.42-1.sles11.x86_64.rpm-bundle.tar"
   3. Extract the MySQL client and MySQL server or just untar the whole thing
      • tar -xf MySQL-5.5.42-1.sles11.x86_64.rpm-bundle.tar

Retain 4.0

Install HTTP Server

1. Install http server (apache2) from YaST
2. If connecting to Exchange:
   1. Set DNS to Exchange server, in YaST/Network Settings

The Retain installer will download Java and MySQL if you wish.

Install

Download Retain

1. Create Retain download directory
   1. • md /software/retain[version] directory and change to it
   2. download the current version of Retain [3] or the beta.
      • wget "http://download.gwava.com/download.php?product=Retain&version=current"
      • wget "http://download.gwava.com/download.php?product=Retain&version=beta"
2. Unzip Retain
   1. • chmod +x *.sh

Install Retain

1. ./RetainInstall.sh Retain 4 requires extensive resources the lab doesn't have, see your mentor about provisioning.
2. install modules:
   • Retain Server
   • Reporting & Monitoring
   • Worker
   • Skip Stubbing as very few customers use that functionality
   • Skip the Router as that should be installed on its own server in the network DMZ
3. setup database, using MySQL
   • give it the path from above
   • give mysql root user a password (remember this)
   • create a database, username and password
4. take the defaults
5. If using multiple disks:
   1. Stop tomcat rcretain-tomat7 stop
   2. Change ownership on INDEX and LOGS to chown -R tomcat:tomcat /[volume]
   3. Change permissions on INDEX and LOGS to chmod -R 774 /[volume]
   4. Change ownership on DATABASE to chown -R mysql:mysql /DATABASE
   5. Change permissions on DATABASE to chmod -R 774 /DATABASE
   6. Change ownership on ARCHIVE to chown -R tomcat:tomcat /ARCHIVE
   7. Change permissions on ARCHIVE to chmod -R 777 /ARCHIVE
      1. Start tomcat rcretain-tomat7 start
6. Otherwise, configure the server.