BaaN Software Installation This is a documentation of the installation procedure of the BaaN ERP done by BaaN-MCS-BBL done on 19th June 1998 (1:00pm) at Bharat Bijlee. This is only a document of the steps undertaken during this installation and should not be treated as a standard procedure for future installations. Please refer to the Installation Manual for standard installation procedure. Hardware : Sun SPARC Server 20 Configuration : 4 GB Disk Space 128 MB RAM 2/4 GB DAT Drive The software given to BBL by BaaN was backed up in the cpio format. This was copied into the /app/source directory using the following command: cpio -icdvB < /dev/rmt/0 where /dev/rmt/0 is the device name of the DAT drive. The following were the terminal settings made: TERM=vt100 export TERM The Kernel Tuning Parameters were set in the system file in the /etc directory. The system was then shutdown using the halt command. Next it was started using the reset command at the (ok) prompt. The following was written in the .profile file in the /etc directory: stty erase ^H A bsp group was added in the system using the following command: groupadd -g 125 bsp A bsp user was added into the system using the following command: useradd -u 125 -g bsp A directory was made in the /app directory using the following command: mkdir home The following commands were executed to change the default of the bsp user and to add a new demo user: useradd -u 125 -g bsp -d /app/home/bsp -s /bin/ksh bsp useradd -u 128 -g bsp -d /app/home/demo -s /bin/ksh -m demo useradd -u 129 -g bsp -d /app/home/tools -s /bin/ksh -m tools useradd -u 130 -g bsp -d /app/home/applic -s /bin/ksh -m applic useradd -u 130 -g bsp -d /app/home/tbase -s /bin/ksh -m tbase The above four commands have to be executed as specified in the installation manual. Owner of the above four directories was changed to bsp. The installation was then started with the following command in the /app/source directory and root as the user: sh install6.1 This started the installation. Several questions popped up during installation which included the path name (/app/bse) etc. All the choices were given as Y. Also the host name (sun20) was given during the installation. The installation went on for about 41/2 hours after which Installation Completed message popped up. This was the standard installation. To install the localization a directory with the name localization was created. Within this directory another directory 30.05.98 was created. This is to indicate the date on which the localization tape was cut at PCS company. The directory owner of 30.05.98 was changed to bsp using the following command: chown bsp:bsp 30.05.98 The localization were copied into the 30.05.98 directory using the following command: tar xvf /dev/rmt/0 To import the data dictionary for the localization the following session was run in BaaN Import data Dictionary (ttiex1258m000) The rights of the app directory were changed using the following command: chmod 775 app Some problems were encountered while loading the demo tables for company 812. The data was not loaded during the installation. It had to be loaded manually using the following command: bdbpost6.1 -A -f -dB -m -n -c000 < tt000.pre bdbpost6.1 -A -f -dB -m -n -c812 < /app/test/cpB40_b1 bdbpost6.1 -A -f -dB -m -n -c812 < /812/812/cp812.pre The above command has to be run for every package of BaaN. After this the Maintain Audit Tables session was checked for relevant data. After the dumps for company 812 and company 650 were created, the Create Tables was run. After this the Load data from Dump was run. During this stage multiple sessions were opened and the system crashed. It was found that the OS was not loaded properly by the Wipro engineer. The swap area and the tmp area memory were wrongly allocated. The data was finally loaded with only one session open. The localization data was also loaded but the Reorganize Tables would have to be run tomorrow. Transactions were passed into the system to check if the data had properly come into the system. The entire procedure was completed by 8:30pm. A document of the issues which were faced / will be facing later and the clarifications regarding them was made and signed by G.Suryanarayan, Kamaljeet Singh, Ananth Padmanabhan and Milind Pai. The license code report will come from BaaN, which will be entered into the system by MCS. After this a Security Code report will be generated and sent to BaaN Netherlands. BaaN Netherlands will then generate a validation key and send it across to Bharat Bijlee. This will again be entered into the system by MCS. 20th June 1998 The system was started at 9:30am. We logged into the BaaN system as applic user. The Reorganize Tables (in the Database Management - Miscellaneous) was run for the company 650. This took about 15 minutes. The Menu Browser was then quit. The root user using the following command then shut down the BaaN database on the console (in the /app/bse/etc directory): sh rc.stop The server was then halted using the halt command. The server was again started using the reset command at the (ok) prompt. The system was logged in using the bsp user. A backup of the /app directory was taken using the following command in the /app directory: tar cvf /dev/rmt/0 * Kernel Parameters Sun Solaris UNIX 2.4/2.5