Installing OpenEdge Management or Explorer for the first time
There are several factors to consider before you install OpenEdge Management or OpenEdge Explorer for the first time. You should analyze what you need to configure or monitor before you begin the installation and you must decide where to install the OpenEdge Management or OpenEdge Explorer components.
To prepare to install OpenEdge Management or OpenEdge Explorer:
1. Determine the names and locations of the resources that you need to monitor and the properties you want to configure. You can configure properties for resources associated with local and remote AdminServers. With OpenEdge Management, you can also monitor certain resources running under a local or remote AdminServer.
2. (In OpenEdge Management only) Determine whether to save monitoring information to the OpenEdge Management Trend Database and, when saving the monitoring information, decide where to locate the database.
The OpenEdge Management Trend Database stores the monitoring information that OpenEdge Management collects for databases, system resources, file resource, network resources, the AppServer, WebSpeed Transaction Server, and the NameServer. During configuration, you can choose whether to save monitoring information locally, remotely, or not at all. Before installation, you should decide if you want to save this data and where you want to save it.
OpenEdge Management automatically creates the OpenEdge Management Trend Database if you have an OpenEdge Enterprise RDBMS, an OpenEdge Workgroup RDBMS, or an OpenEdge Personal database installed on the same machine where you are installing OpenEdge Management.
If you decide to save monitoring information remotely, the remote machine must have both a database (Enterprise or Workgroup) and OpenEdge Management installed. In other words, you cannot just copy a trending database to a remote machine.
The local instance of OpenEdge Management needs to communicate with a remote instance of OpenEdge Management to use the remote trending database.
3. (In OpenEdge Management only) Determine how monitoring might affect system performance.
The more resources you monitor, the more system resources OpenEdge Management uses. If you plan to monitor a large number of database servers and network services in your configuration, you might want to consider configuring additional OpenEdge Management instances, both locally and remotely.
4. Determine where to install OpenEdge Management or OpenEdge Explorer.
Based on the decisions you made in Steps 1 through 4, you can install OpenEdge Management or OpenEdge Explorer either locally or on a separate or standalone machine.
