During the installation of IBM® Enterprise
Records, you must be familiar with
and plan for several product features and components to ensure a successful
product installation.
To install and configure an
IBM Enterprise
Records system, you must be familiar with the following systems
and concepts:
- The AIX®, HP-UX, HP-UXi, Linux, Solaris, Windows, or Linux on System z® operating system
- WebSphere® Application
Server, Oracle WebLogic Server, or JBoss Application Server
- User and security configuration
- Database configuration and indexing
- FileNet® P8 suite of
products
- Application Engine or Workplace XT if you use the traditional IBM Enterprise
Records client
- IBM Content
Navigator if you
use the IBM Enterprise
Records administration
client
For a successful
IBM Enterprise
Records installation experience, you must be prepared for the following
product component and feature decisions:
To install
IBM Enterprise
Records for the first time, do the following planning tasks:
- Plan your architecture and decide whether to install on a single
or multiple server system.
- Decide whether you want to federate to other repositories other
than FileNet P8.
- Decide which data models you want to use.
- Plan your object stores. An object store is a repository of objects
and a suite of accompanying storage and retrieval services. For IBM Enterprise
Records, an object store can be
a File plan object store (FPOS), a records-enabled object store (ROS),
or a combined FPOS and ROS. A combined FPOS and ROS server contains
both the file plan and documents but is not used for production systems.
- Gather information about your environment, such as server names,
security settings, and where to install the documentation. Use the
installation checklists to help you gather this information.
- Determine your security roles, default instance security, security
inheritance, and security markings.
- Determine which tools such as reporting tools or sweep tools to
install.
You can use checklists to help you gather information that you
must use to install and configure IBM Enterprise
Records. These checklists help
you decide what features you want to install and track information
about directories, permissions, and user credentials.