Overview of Universal Cache installation and configuration steps

This section provides a high-level overview of the installation and configuration steps for Universal Cache.

▪The installation and configuration instructions assume your configuration includes only one solidDB^® server. Repeat the steps for any additional solidDB^® servers in your configuration.

▪Install the components in the order described below; this is to ensure that you meet installation and configuration requirements for each component.

1 Locate the installation images for the Universal Cache components.

For a list of the installation images for different platforms, see Component and installation package information.

2 Ensure that you have access to all the following documentation packages that are needed when installing Universal Cache.

▪solidDB^® 7.0 Documentation package in PDF format

▪IBM InfoSphere Change Data Capture Documentation package in PDF format (from IBM)

3 Ensure that you have system administrator (or equivalent) access rights to all the nodes where you will install the Universal Cache components.

While setting up Universal Cache, you need to create (or use existing) user accounts, database, and network connection identification data to enable the different components to communicate with each other.

A summary of the key identification data is available in User accounts and database connection data for Universal Cache.

4 Install and configure solidDB^® server.

For details, see Installing and configuring solidDB^® server for Universal Cache.

Result: You have a working solidDB^® server installation with an empty database.

5 Install and configure IBM InfoSphere CDC for solidDB^®.

For details, see Installing and configuring IBM InfoSphere CDC for solidDB^®.

Result: You have a working installation and you have created at least one IBM InfoSphere CDC instance which is connected to your solidDB^® database.

6 Install and configure the backend data server.

For details, see Installing and configuring your backend data server.

Result: You have a working installation of the backend server with a database that contains data that you want to replicate to and from solidDB^®.

7 Install and configure IBM InfoSphere CDC for the backend data server.

For details, see Installing and configuring IBM InfoSphere CDC for your backend data server.

Result: You have a working installation of the replication engine and you have created at least one IBM InfoSphere CDC instance that is connected to your backend database.

8 Install IBM InfoSphere CDC Access Server.

For details, see Installing and configuring IBM InfoSphere CDC Access Server.

Result: You have a working Access Server installation and you have created a system administrator account for logging into the Management Console.

9 Install IBM InfoSphere CDC Management Console.

For details, see Installing and configuring IBM InfoSphere CDC Management Console.

Result: You have a working Management Console installation and you can login into the IBM InfoSphere CDC Management Console using the system administrator account.

For details, see Setting up caching with Management Console.

Result: You have created replication subscriptions between your solidDB^® and backend data server.