Overview

This chapter presents an overview of the Rose installation to provide context for the installation procedures from Installation Quick Start .

The following topics are covered in this section:

• Installation Checklist
• Rose Version Numbers
• Hardware Configurations

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Installation Checklist

The major steps in the Rose installation are listed below. The time required for each major step will vary with factors such as your experience level, your workstation load, and your network performance.

1 . Read the release note for any instruction updates not available at the printing of this manual.

2 . Ensure that your workstations satisfy the requirements described in Prerequisites . Your system administrator may need to perform some of the requirements.

3 . Load the release as described in Installation Quick Start .

4 . Configure your system as described in Configuring Rose for UNIX/Linux .

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Rose Version Numbers

This installation guide refers to the Rose version numbers as I.J.K where I is the major release, J is the minor update, and K is the micro release number. Please substitute the current version number when you see I.J.K.

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Hardware Configurations

Rose can be installed on a stand-alone workstation or a client-server network that includes many workstations.

Conceptually, you can have different workstations performing each of these roles:

• Clients
  • Displays X windows and accepts input from users.
• File Servers
  • Stores the installation and user data (for example, Rose models). When a file server is distinct from other workstations, its file systems must be:

    ­ Visible via the Network File System (NFS^TM)

    ­ Mounted on all workstations with the same pathnames

• Compute Servers
  • Runs Rose processes. When a compute server is distinct from a client, the compute server is accessed via remote login (rlogin) or remote shell (rsh) from the client.
• License Server
  • Runs daemons that control access to Rose.

    

More commonly, a file server doubles as the license server, and clients double as their own compute servers. In the simplest configuration, a stand-alone workstation performs all roles.

If you are installing Rose on a client-server network, note that you must enter specific commands on specific workstations. For example, the license server daemon must be started on that license server, not on another workstation.