HP Large Objects System Management Manual

HP Large Objects System Management Manual – 543599.001
2 Quick Start Guide
2.1 What is provided?
1. NonStop Open System Services (OSS) scripts to create the Object Store
environment
2. API Library (a bindable object, [not a Common Runtime Library or a dynamic-
link library (DLL)])
3. Utility programs (buddycon, buddymon, buddyreload)
4. Sample calling programs for all APIs (note these are not part of the supported
product, but are provided as samples)
2.2 OSS Installation
To install and initialize the Large Object system in OSS, follow these steps.
1. Copy the T0641PAX file from the compact disc to an OSS directory.
2. Unpax the file T0641PAX into the user’s path
for example, pax -s:/lob1.0:/home/john/LOB/jul12: -rvf T0641PAX
It will unpax the files into the path “/home/john/LOB/jul12”
3. Change the security permissions of the file dotProfile under the directory
InstallScripts using chmod 755, so that the user can edit it.
4. Edit the file dotProfile, and change the four variables as detailed within the file.
Rename the file to .profile
5. Load the .profile file using . ./.profile
6. Run the script InstallOSS.sh
Note: This script will erase any existing buddy sets and clean up
an SQL meta data tables. If you want to use the existing
HPLOB store (an SQL table information), run only sqlComp.sh and
metaData.sh scripts under the directory InstallScripts.
7. The script InstallOSS.sh will prompt the user to input the required parameters.
The OSS Large Object environment is now ready to use.
2.3 Use in Guardian
To install and initialize the Large Object system in Guardian, follow these steps:
(Omit this stage if your application runs solely in OSS).
1. Copy the T0641PAX file from the compact disc to an OSS directory.
2. Unpax the file T0641PAX into the user’s path
for example, pax -s:/lob1.0:/home/john/LOB/jul12: -rvf T0641PAX
It will unpax the files into the path “/home/john/LOB/jul12”
3. Copy the files from bin/Guardian and lib/Guardian directories into the user’s
Guardian subvolume.
4. Alter the file code of all the files, except obeyfile, to 700.
5. Alter the file code of the obeyfile to 101.
6. Edit the obeyfile and change the catalog location from \VIHAR.$d0105.bd55 to
the user’s catalog location path in all the ADD DEFINEs
7. Obey the obeyfile
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