Document revision date: 30 March 2001
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Compaq Availability Manager Version 1.4

Installation Instructions for Windows NT and Windows 2000 Systems

This installation procedure assumes that you want to install the application files on your local drive. The procedure also writes all the Registry entries that the application requires to your local Registry. However, you might want to install the application files on a network drive for a number of reasons---for example, if the network is backed up regularly, or if the local drive is low on available space. For better performance, Compaq recommends that you install on a local drive.

Note

If you upgrade to Windows 2000 after installing the Availability Manager Version 1.4 on Windows NT 4.0, you must reinstall the Version 1.4 kit.

To install Version 1.4 of the Availability Manager on a Windows NT or Windows 2000 system, follow the steps in each section.

1 Preparing to Install

Compaq strongly recommends that you read the release notes before proceeding with the installation. To access the release notes:

  1. Go to the Availability Manager documentation web page:


    http://www.openvms.compaq.com/openvms/products/availman/docs.html 
    

  2. Click HTML following "Version 1.4 Release Notes" to display the release notes in HTML format. (You can also print these notes.)

2 Starting the Installation

To start the installation, follow these steps:

  1. Go to the Availability Manager software web page:


    http://www.openvms.compaq.com/products/availman/where.html 
    

  2. Complete the Registration Form, which gives you access to the download web page.
  3. On the Windows section of the download web page, click the name of the appropriate file:


       availman014_i.exe -- for Intel systems 
                            running on Windows NT or Windows 2000 
     
       availman014_a.exe -- for Alpha systems 
                            running on Windows NT only 
    

  4. On the screen that is displayed, click Save, and enter the name of the folder in which you want to save the kit.

3 Installing the Software

This section contains the following subsections:

3.1 Installing the Software for Availability Manager Version 1.4

To install the Version 1.4 software, follow these steps:

  1. Go to the folder containing the saved kit, and double-click the name of the file to start the installation. (This is a standard Windows product installation.)
  2. After the installation is complete, you must restart your system. To do this, click Finish or press Enter once to complete the installation and restart. Do not press Enter multiple times; the machine will log you off instead of restarting the system.

3.2 Reinstalling Version 1.4 and Installing Later Versions of the Software on Intel Systems

If you reinstall Version 1.4 or install later versions on Intel systems, the software detects whether the Availability Manager has already been installed and displays a Welcome dialog box with the following options:
Options Description
Modify To add new components and replace existing components with the latest versions.
Repair To reinstall the product completely.
Remove To uninstall the product.

Select Modify to reinstall Version 1.4 or to install later versions of the software.

4 Stopping and Restarting the Installation

If you click Cancel in the course of an installation, a message is displayed indicating that your installation is incomplete. What you do next depends on whether your network bindings are complete:

5 Modifying Memory Allocation Pool (Heap) Values

For large-memory configurations, you might want to increase the heap sizes of the application for better performance. However, the default values are adequate for most installations.

To modify the memory allocation pool (heap) values for the Availability Manager on Windows systems, you must modify the minimum and maximum heap default values in the Availability Manager shortcut command. (The shortcut value is stored in the Programs folder of the Start Menu folder.)

To modify the heap values, follow these steps from Windows Explorer:

  1. Click the Winnt folder.
  2. Click the Profiles folder.
  3. Click the All Users folder.
  4. Click the Start Menu folder.
  5. Click the Programs folder.
  6. Click Availability Manager.
  7. In the right pane, click Data Analyzer Startup. (Be sure to click only once.)
  8. Right-click Properties.
  9. Click the Shortcut tab.
  10. In the Target box:
  11. When you finish entering new values, click either of the following:

6 Running the Application

Steps for running the application vary, depending on whether you have Compaq OpenVMS Management Tools for Windows NT (OMT) installed:

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