Installation requirements

Following are the operating system and software requirements for the Remote Agent.

Operating system requirements

This guide assumes that your site is the hub site and that you are running the full InterChange Server system on Windows 2000. However, Remote Agent does not require that the hub and spoke sites use the same platform. The spoke site with which you communicate can be using one of the following platforms:

Note:
Most adapters can run on Windows 2000 or UNIX, but some can run only on specific operating systems. Consult the individual adapter documentation for details.

Hub site software requirements

The hub site requires that the following ICS components be installed:

Note:
The IBM Java ORB and its Transient Naming Service are installed automatically by Installer. For more information, see "Configuring the Object Request Broker".

Spoke site software requirements

The spoke sites do not require installation of the InterChange Server system but require installation of the following components:

Create the MQ_LIB environment variable and set its value to the path of the Java\lib directory. For example:

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