Preparing to run OpenEdge on a TCP/IP network

Identify and configure the nodes on your network for use as application workstations, database server machines, application server machines, and network file servers.

Install OpenEdge on each node, or if your network has a network file server, install OpenEdge on the file server. For more information, see Sharing an OpenEdge installation on a network overview.

If any application workstations and database server machines have incompatible processors or operating systems, you must install the appropriate OpenEdge product on each node.

Set up network system files on each node.

If you are using a network file server, make its resources, including printers and directories, available to all other nodes that require them.

If you installed OpenEdge on a network file server, you might want to distribute the appropriate OpenEdge system files to the compatible application workstations and database server machines that use them. This takes advantage of networks where the local file and data access is faster than using the network.

Set up your OpenEdge databases on each file server, database server, and application server machine.