This document describes how to install and use the Information Center and the PDFs that the SAN Volume Controller web installation program creates on your hard drive.
About this task
The default installation directory is the C:\Program Files\SVC 6.1.0 IC directory. This document refers to the disk drive and directory where you choose to install the Information Center as the installation_root_directory in some examples.
Procedure
- Accept the license terms to continue by clicking Next.
- When the Installation utility opens, click Next to
continue.
- Choose an installation location; then click Next.
- Choose a new Program Group (the default) or select a method
of accessing the start options for the Information Center.
By default, the Program Group is "SAN Volume Controller 6.1.0 IC".
- Review the selections you have made, then click Install.
The SAN Volume Controller Information Center requires approximately 1 GB of free space, primarily because of the size of the IBM User Interface Help System built on Eclipse 3.4.3.
The information center plug-in for the SAN Volume Controller Information Center is approximately 20 MB. There are two previous versions in the SAN Volume Controller Information Center. The 5.1.0 version requires approximately 20 MB. The 4.3.1 version requires approximately 20 MB. The size of the e-Learning Flash modules that you access through the Information Center is approximately 100 MB. The size of the PDFs directory that the installation program installs is approximately 70 MB.
- As the installation proceeds, you can see it unpack a compressed
file that includes all the data.
A progress bar at the bottom of the window indicates how far along the installation is. The PDFs are installed in the PDFs folder in the installation root directory.
An uninstall program is created and provided as a menu selection on the Start menu. The InstallAnywhere program names the uninstaller "Change SAN Volume Controller 6.1.0 IC installation.exe". The uninstaller is the last component to install.
A successful completion panel is displayed after all the code is installed.
Two ways of accessing the SAN Volume Controller Installation Center exist:- Stand-alone mode which is ideal for a laptop and personal use
- Information center mode, which is referred to as shared mode in this document and in the Start menu
Information Center mode is ideal for a server that everyone in a company might access. The SAN Volume Controller Information Center has more information about each mode.
Stand-alone mode opens the SAN Volume Controller Information Center automatically in a browser window by using a loopback port and web address.
Access the shared-mode Information Center by entering the web address of the Information Center into a browser window. The default for the SAN Volume Controller Information Center is this address:http://server_name_or_IP:9999/help/index.jsp
The port is 9999, which a later step shows how to change, if necessary.You can view the PDFs directly without going through the Start menu by changing directories to the PDFs directory in the installation root directory and clicking the start.html file.
The Start menu has options for SAN Volume Controller 6.1.0 IC to perform these tasks:
The page that opens when you select to view a PDF is a simple HTML page that is not part of the Information Center. Simply close the page when you are done.
- The batch file is a long command string. Search for 9999,
which is the default port. Change it to a port that works for your
organization and save the file.
- After the Information Center starts, you can find more
information about stopping, starting, and using the Information Center
in the information container that is labeled IBM User Interface Help System
3.4.3 Documentation.
This set of topics describes these items:- Starting and stopping the help system in stand-alone mode, which is how you might do it when you want to run the Information Center just for yourself
- Starting and stopping the help system in information-center mode, which is how you do it on a server that you want many people to be able to access
- Navigating in the help system
- Searching in the help system
- Printing in the help system
- Accessibility and keyboard shortcuts in the help system
- Troubleshooting, although some of the topics are for an IBM service representative
- Building your help system, in case you want to use open source DITA or HTML to add your own documentation plug-in to the Information Center
- As someone accesses a shared Information Center instance
for the first time, the command window shows Eclipse loading the TOC
XML files, and the Information Center is displayed in the user's
browser.
The IBM User Interface Help System runs under an Eclipse javaw instance. When you stop the shared Information Center, the Eclipse instance is ended. Sometimes, Eclipse leaves a javaw instance running after you end it from the Start menu.
Troubleshoting tip: If you stop an Information Center instance, then later, cannot start the Information Center in a new instance, the reason is probably that the original javaw instance never ended.If you have a stubborn javaw instance, open the Task Manager with Ctrl-Alt-Del to view processes. Sort them alphabetically and select a javaw instance to stop. Unfortunately, there is no way to determine which javaw instance to end. You can always restart any Java programs that you inadvertently shut down.
