Administering Satellites Guide and Reference

Chapter 10. Performing a Mass Deployment

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When you finish your development phase, and have verified that your model office represents what you want to deploy in production, you are ready to begin a mass deployment. Facilities exist to ease the deployment of the DB2 Satellite Edition solution on hundreds and thousands of satellites. The techniques described here will help you achieve predictable results.

You can use two methods to achieve the mass deployment of DB2 Satellite Edition:

• Mass installation

  The mass installation method uses a traditional installation process to deploy DB2 Satellite Edition. Use this method if you cannot replace the contents of the entire hard disk on the satellite. This situation occurs:

  • If the equipment is owned by a user outside of your company. For example, an independent insurance agent would potentially have application software on his system from several insurance companies.
  • When other applications are already deployed on company-owned systems.

    For example, you are deploying a new application, the first one to use DB2 Satellite Edition, on systems that are already running other applications.

  If you use the mass installation method, you must build your own customized installation application. Your application will have to invoke the DB2 installation application, and perform any additional customization that you require. You can use your installation application to install your application, in addition to DB2.

• Mass copy

  When the equipment is company owned and dedicated to a single application, the setup of the application and database often occurs at a central site. When the setup is complete, the system is given to the end user, either at an application training session, or by shipping it directly to the user. In this situation, the end user is most likely an employee of the company.

  If you perform the setup activities at a central site, this can bypass the traditional installation process for all but the first satellite. In this situation, you will find it more efficient to copy the disk image of a fully configured system and perform minor customization, rather than have to repeatedly install the operating system, database and application. After you copy the disk, you can customize the satellite by running scripts that tailor the system for a specific user, and load the users portion of the data.

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