Installing and using the Storwize V7000 Information Center

This document describes how to install and use the Information Center and the PDFs that the Storwize V7000 Web installation program creates on your hard drive.

About this task

Click on the Web installation program for Storwize V7000 to open a download panel.

You might have to locate the panel if it does not open on top of your other windows.

You can save the code, or click Run to get started installing the Storwize V7000 Information Center. After verifying the publisher, a download panel is displayed.

After downloading the code, which is approximately 500 MB of data mainly for the IBM User Interface Help System built on Eclipse 3.4.3, a panel is displayed for you to manage the installation instance. Install a new instance to get started.

The default installation directory is the C:\Program Files\storwize 6.1.0 IC directory. This document refers to the disk drive and directory (the part in bold) where you choose to install the Information Center as the installation_root_directory in some examples.

Procedure

When the Installation utility opens, click Next to continue.
Accept the license terms to continue by clicking Next.
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 "Storwize V7000 6.1.0 IC".
Review the selections you have made, then click Install.

Notice that the size requirement of the Storwize V7000 Information Center is approximately 550 MB, due to the size of the IBM User Interface Help System built on Eclipse 3.4.3. The information center plug-in for the Storwize V7000 Information Center is approximately 10 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 37 MB. The rest of the 550 MB is the Eclipse framework of the IBM Help System.
As the installation proceeds, you can see it unpack a compressed file that includes all of the data.

A progress bar at the bottom of the window indicates how far along is the installation. 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 something similar to "Change Storwize V7000 6.1.0 IC doc". It is the last component to install.

A successful completion panel is displayed once all the code is installed.

Two ways of accessing the Storwize V7000 Installation Center exist: stand-alone mode which is ideal for a laptop and personal use, and 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 Storwize V7000 Information Center has more information about each mode.

Stand-alone mode opens the Storwize V7000 Information Center automatically in a browser window, using a loopback port and URL.
Shared mode requires a reader to access it by entering a URL into a browser window. The default URL for the Storwize V7000 Information Center is
```
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 Storwize V700 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.
On some Windows systems, you might click Start > All programs > Storwize V7000 6.1.0 IC to access the options.
Click Done on the Installation Program window to close the program.
To start the Information Center, edit the installation_root_directory\Storwize 6.1.0 IC\storwizeic\IC_start.bat file to change the port from 9999 to a port that works for your workstation or server.
To edit the port, open the installation_root_directory\Storwize 6.1.0 IC\storwizeic\IC_start.bat file in a flat-file editor.
The batch file is one 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.
Double-click the IC_start.bat command file directly to start the Storwize V7000 Information Center, or select it from the Start menu.
You can start the Information Center immediately on port 9999. Or you can edit the port.

To stop the Information Center, double click the IC_end.bat command file directly, or select it from the Start menu.
Anyone who can access the server or workstation by its IP address or fully qualified DNS name can access the Information Center at the http://server_name_or_IP:9999/help/index.jsp URL.
If you changed the port number, access the information center using the following information from the IBM User Interface Help System built on Eclipse 3.4.3:
1. Open the browser in which you want to run the information center.
2. Enter the following syntax as the URL:
```
http://server_name_where_you_installed:port/help
```
  For example, if you installed the Information Center on serverabc, using port 3737, your URL is: http://serverabc:3737/help
  
  server_name_where_you_installed represents the name of the host or IP address of the system where the Information Center is installed.
  
  port represents the port that the Information Center uses, which is either 9999 or a port that you chose.
3. After typing the URL in the browser, press Enter to access the Information Center.
4. Anyone who has access to your server can access the Information Center at that address.
Once the Information Center starts, you can find more information about stopping, starting, and using the Information Center in the information container labeled IBM User Interface Help System 3.4.3 Documentation.
This set of topics describes such things as:
- 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
Tip: Some people who do this a lot always use the information-center mode because there is always someone to whom you want to show something in an information center that you've installed on your own machine. No one can access a stand-alone information center unless they are on the machine where it is installed.
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. 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.
The stand-alone Storwize V7000 Information Center is handy for a laptop, for instance. You can end its javaw instance by selecting Stop the stand-alone IC from the Start menu.
Uninstall the entire Storwize V7000 Information Center when you uninstall.
The install program leaves a series of files that Eclipse created when the information center was started for the first time. You must manually delete these files.