Add a Colony Using the GUI Wizard

About this task

You can add colonies to your Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation deployment as follows:

Procedure

  1. Run the Manage Colony Wizard by entering the following command:
       Windows: <INSTALL_DIR>\bin manageColonyWizard.cmd

    Linux or UNIX: <INSTALL_DIR>/bin ./manageColonyWizard.sh

  2. The initial screeen dialog box is displayed.
  3. At the Manage Colony screen, click Next to start the installation program.
  4. At the Manage Colony screen, enter the Colony ID. This is the name of the colony you wish to create and it can be up to 40 characters in length. In the next field, enter the Colony Prefix, which is a two-digit colony prefix for the colony. This can be a number from 10 – 99 (except 19 and 20). Click Next.
  5. Configure your Transaction/Master schema by entering the following information and click Next:
    • Database user name
    • Database password
    • Confirm database password
    • Database catalog name (for more information, see the Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation: Installation Guide)
    • Database host name (or IP address)
    • Database port
  6. After you enter the database information and click Next, the Confirm Database Information screen for Transaction/Master displays the database account information you entered on the previous screen. This screen is read-only. If the information is correct, click Next.

    If any information needs to be changed, click Back to return to the previous screen and make changes.

  7. If you have installed Sterling Analytics, the Manage Colony Wizard prompts for the following information.
    1. Configure your Sterling Analytics Transaction/Master schema by entering the following information and click Next.
      • Database user name
      • Database password
      • Confirm database password
      • Database catalog name (for more information, see the Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation: Installation Guide)
      • Database host name (or IP address)
      • Database port
    2. After you enter the database information and click Next, the Confirm Sterling Analytics Database Information Transaction/Master Schema screen displays the database account information you entered on the previous screen. This screen is read-only. Click Next.
    3. Configure your Sterling Analytics Staging schema by entering database information and click Next.
    4. After you enter the database information and click Next, the Confirm Database Account Information for Sterling Analytics Staging Schema screen displays the database account information you entered on the previous screen. This screen is read-only. Click Next.
  8. When the installation is finished, the message installation completed is displayed.
  9. If you wish to add another colony to your deployment, repeat the procedure, entering database information for the next colony.

Results

This GUI installation writes an <INSTALL_DIR>/addColony.xml file, which contains the colony configuration data you entered during this procedure.