H06.27 Software Installation and Upgrade Guide

6 Installing a SUT for This RVU Using NonStop Software
Essentials
NOTE: If you do not have NonStop Software Essentials installed, see the NonStop Software
Essentials Installation and Quick Start Guide.
Installing a new RVU or a SUT involves these DSM/SCM tasks:
1. “Receive New Software Into the Archive” (page 95)
2. “Create a New Software Revision” (page 85)
3. “Build and Apply the New Software Revision” (page 88)
Alerts for Installing a SUT
Do not use this procedure to upgrade more than one system at a time or to install SPRs. For SPRs,
see“Using DSM/SCM With NonStop Software Essentials to Install SPRs” (page 157) to Install SPRs.
Before you install a SUT or RVU, these requirements must be met:
• When managing OSS files with DSM/SCM, check that the OSS Root Name Server $ZPNS
is started and running on the DSM/SCM Target. (See “Create a New Software Revision”
(page 99).) The volume where the SYSnn is being placed must be activated as $SYSTEM to
install the OSS files. See Appendix B in the Open System Services Management and Operations
Guide, or if using EasySetup, see Chapter 1 in the Open System Services Installation Guide.
• Save the configuration database. See “Save the Current Configuration File (CONFxxyy)”
(page 71).
• Verify your system operations. See “Verify System Processes” (page 72).
• If necessary, update the system console.
• Obtain a user name and password authorized to use NonStop Software Essentials. See the
NonStop Software Essentials User’s Guide for more information about configuring which users
are allowed to use DSM/SCM and which tasks they are permitted to perform.
NOTE: Safeguard aliases are case-sensitive, and they must be entered exactly when you
log onto NonStop Software Essentials.
You can add a Safeguard alias anytime Safeguard is running.
Before using an existing alias for NonStop Software Essentials, check that Safeguard is started.
Aliases are available only while Safeguard is running.
• Pause the hometerm configured for use by DSM/SCM Pathway servers and other processes
when DSM/SCM is running. The default hometerm is $ZHOME. See the NonStop Software
Essentials User’s Guide for more information about the hometerm used by DSM/SCM Pathway
servers.
• For those OSS products that are not managed by DSM/SCM, you must install them manually
using PINSTALL or COPYOSS.
Back Up Important Files
• Back up important files (such as, TMF, NonStop SQL/MP, NonStop SQL/MX, and so forth).
See “Back Up Important Files” (page 70).
• Drain the Spooler and back up spooler control files.
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