This section describes how to work with NetQuestion on AIX, HP-UX and Solaris operating systems. NetQuestion is not currently supported on other UNIX-based operating systems. This section also describes workarounds to problems that might be encountered while installing NetQuestion on UNIX platforms.
If you installed your DB2 product using the db2setup utility and you selected to install the Product Documentation or Control Center components, NetQuestion was automatically installed and configured for you.
If you installed DB2 manually, you need to perform certain post-installation configuration tasks to set up the online search system. For more information, see your platform's server installation chapter in the DB2 for UNIX Quick Beginnings manual.
In some environments, previous installs or uninstalls of NetQuestion make it impossible to install the NetQuestion again. In short, NetQuestion requires that special user ID and group ID names exist to install correctly. Occasionally (usually when NetQuestion has been incompletely removed) one or the other of these IDs does not exist. In other cases, users sometimes do not have the right access needed to create these group IDs and user IDs successfully at installation. Both of these conditions result in NetQuestion failing to install properly.
Problems installing NetQuestion for the first time on the machine
If you experience a problem installing NetQuestion, and you do not have a previous version of the product already installed, then please completely remove NetQuestion and then re-install it. Note that this includes removing the imnadm user ID and group ID before reinstalling.
Problems installing NetQuestion when another NetQuestion component is already installed, or was previously installed
If you experience a problem installing NetQuestion, and you have another version of NetQuestion already installed (or have had it installed in the past), then do not remove the existing NetQuestion installation. Instead, check to see if there is a group ID called imnadm. If there is, then you can either:
Problems installing NetQuestion in an AFS/DCE or NIS/NIS+ environment
In environments where user ID and group ID management is centralized, that is, IDs are created on a server by an authorized administrative user, who then distributes the ID information to client machines, the imnadm user IDs and group IDs have to be created prior to users installing NetQuestion. Since these user IDs and group IDs are shared among all products that make use of NetQuestion, this step needs to be performed once prior to installing the first product that uses NetQuestion. After the last product that uses NetQuestion is uninstalled, then the user ID and group ID should be removed.