Administering Satellites Guide and Reference

The Production-Deployment Phase

You can use the model office to generate the files that are required for automating the deployment of the group satellites. The installation process uses the generated files to install and set up the satellites. To generate the files, use two utilities that are provided by DB2 Satellite Edition:

• Use the response file generator to reverse engineer the installed model office, which produces an installation response file. You use the response file to install exact duplicates of the model office. When you perform the installation, DB2 Satellite Edition is installed with the same components and configuration values that are on the model office.

  Note:

  The term reverse engineer refers to the process of extracting information from an existing system and producing a script from that system. The script can then be used to re-create a similar or exact copy of the original system.

• Use the client profile export utility to generate a configuration file. This file contains configuration and connectivity information about the model office. When you import the configuration file to the satellite, the configuration and connection data for the model office is re-created on the satellite.

When using the DB2 Universal Database distributed installation process, you can specify a client profile to import, which facilitates complete automation of the installation and configuration process. In this way, you can deploy all of your production satellites with a minimum of difficulty.

When the group satellites are deployed, you can simplify and automate the setup for replication on each satellite by reverse engineering the group's replication setup, so that it is general enough to be applied to each satellite of the group. You reverse engineer by generalizing the replication subscription.

Using the Model Office During the Production-Deployment Phase

See Chapter 10, Performing a Mass Deployment for detailed instructions about using the model office during the deployment of an application version to a group of satellites. For information on generalizing the replication subscription to set up replication for the satellites in the group, see Chapter 7, DB2 Data Replication.

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