Installing the Automation Engine for UNIX

Installing the Automation Engine

Distributed Server Environment

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Installing the Automation Engine for Windows

This document guides you through the new installation of a Automation Engine for Windows.

Automic strongly recommends installing the Automation Engine in a separate directory (such as C:\AUTOMIC\SERVER).

Requirements

Requirements for using a DB2 Database

• The LANG variable of the user who starts the Automation Engine should be identical to the variable DB2CODEPAGE in order to avoid problems when starting the Server.

Supplied Files

The Automation Engine files can be found in the IMAGE:AUTOMATIONENGINE\WINDOWS directory.

Procedure

	1.	Installing the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package

This installation step can be omitted if the required version of the package is already installed. Refer to the Control Panel -> Add or Remove Programs to see if the package is installed, and if so, which version.

• Server computer
• Install the package from the IMAGE:CRTS directory.

	2.	Installing the Automation Engine

• Server computer
• If required, install the AE SNMP subagent along with the Automation Engine.
• Start the program SETUP.EXE in the corresponding subdirectory of IMAGE:AUTOMATIONENGINE\WINDOWS.

	3.	Installing the AE SNMP subagent (optional)

• Server computer
• Install the AE SNMP subagent if you intend to use its functions.

	4.	Setting up the system environment

• Server computer
• Adjust the INI file UCSRV.INI to the system environment.
• Use the databaseA database is an organized collection of data including relevant data structures. client to create a connection to the database. If you use the MS SQL Server, create the data source "AE" for ODBC access (64 bit ODBC).

	5.	Starting and ending the Automation Engine

• Server computer
• An AE system requires at least one communication process and one work process. Start them from the AE program group for testing purposes. The processes are displayed as symbols in the task bar.
• Right-click the Server-process symbol in the task bar and click Close to end one or Shutdown to end all server processes.
• After all other programs have been installed and tested, the Automation Engine should run as a service. Use the ServiceManager to start the Automation Engine as a service. The server processes can be started and ended using the ServiceManager Dialog.

For starting the Automation Engine, a 64-bit Microsoft Visual C-Runtime Library is required.

See also:

Number of Server Processes
Configuring the Debugger for potential program failures
Installing the AE SNMP Subagent (Windows)