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RE: HDR replication setup on Windows

Posted By: Paul Watson
Date: Thursday, 28 August 2014, at 2:43 p.m.

In Response To: RE: HDR replication setup on Windows (david@smooth1.co.uk)

Use a local user account

> The hard bit was installation and getting connectivity between the 2
> servers:
>
> When installing I gave an informix password which did not match the
> Windows
> password complexity requirements.
>
> The installer gave no error even though the informix account was not
> created,
> that needs to be fixed.
>
> Using the server manager to create a server worked until trying to launch
> the
> server when it kept asking for the informix password over and over again
> as it
> could not create a service.
>
> The error mentioned sync with PDC even though I am using a workgroup
> although
> it
> did mention password complexity rules as well!
>
> Manually adding the Informix user and putting it the the correct groups
> did
> not
> fix the issue.
>
> cancelling and reruning the instance manger made no difference.
>
> Uninstall and reinstall time!
>
> On the subject of the uninstall, it did not work took ~5 attempts before I
> hunted down zapping all the following before I could get the install to
> work,
> this needs fixing as well.
>
> Add/remove programs includes several items not just 1.
>
> Uninstalling the bundle did not
>
> - remove JDBC,Client SDK and IBM Informix 11.70.FC8 from Add/Remove
> Programs
> even though they were gone
> - uninstall Blade Manager
> - uninstall GSKit
> - unstall Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable 2005 and 2008
> - remove all of C:\Program Files\IBM
> - remove all registry keys from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Informix -
> shouldn'
> that be \IBM\Informix buy now?
> - removed services for the server I installed using sc delete.
>
> When I realized that both VM's I cloned had the same hostname and changed
> the
> hostname nothing worked.
>
> Installing a server mentioned failure to create a service again -
> reinstall
> time
> again!
>
> How do you handle
>
> 1. Changing the Informix password.
> 2. Changing the hostname
>
> The installer needs to have a repair option which fixes informix
> user/password
> and can reinstall services to handle a hostname change.
>
> Regards,
> David.
>
>> On 28 August 2014 at 18:40 Paul Watson <paul@oninit.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> It is straightforward and should just work if you follow the
>> instructions
>>
>> Cheers
>> Paul
>>
>> > Thank you for the response. I was beginning to wonder if there was
>> anyone
>> > out
>> > there running Informix on Windows. I know that I normally run it on
>> > UNIX/Linux.
>> >
>> > Is there anyone with experience setting up HDR on Windows that can
>> mention
>> > some gotchas that I should look out for?
>> >
>> > Larry
>> >
>> >> To: ids@iiug.org
>> >> From: bryce@hrnz.co.nz
>> >> Subject: Re: RE: HDR replication setup on Windows [33612]
>> >> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 01:24:32 -0400
>> >>
>> >> On windows you don't have onmonitor.
>> >> Not sure what else is missing, most of the usual suspects are there I
>> >> think.
>> >> Here is directory listing of executables in 'bin' folder with version
>> >> 11.70FC5GE, maybe this helps you:
>> >>
>> >> archecker.exe blademgr.exe cdr.exe connectTest.exe
>> >> copyboot.exe creates.exe dbaccess.exe dbexport.exe
>> >> dbimport.exe dbload.exe dbschema.exe deletes.exe
>> >> DocViewer.exe drdaprint.exe dsnMigrate.exe finderr.exe
>> >> GenMacKey.exe genoncfg.exe ifxclone.exe ifxcollect.exe
>> >> ifxdeploy.exe ifxdeployassist.exe ifxnmpcfg.exe ilogin.exe
>> >> infoshp.exe inssnmp.exe instmgr.exe ixpasswd.exe
>> >> ixsu.exe loadshp.exe msgserv.exe ntchname.exe
>> >> ntmail.exe onaudit.exe onbar_d.exe oncheck.exe
>> >> onclean.exe oncmsm.exe ondblog.exe oninit.exe
>> >> onload.exe onlog.exe onmode.exe onparams.exe
>> >> onpassword.exe onpladm.exe onpload.exe onrestorept.exe
>> >> onscpah.exe onshowaudit.exe onsmsync.exe onsnmp.exe
>> >> onspaces.exe onsrvapd.exe onstat.exe ontape.exe
>> >> onunload.exe regcdrcl.exe regcopy.exe setnet32.exe
>> >> set_error.exe sqliprt.exe starts.exe txbsapswd.exe
>> >> unloadshp.exe vcredist.exe vcredist_x64.exe wblademgr.exe
>> >> xfault.exe xtrace.exe
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >> Bryce Stenberg.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>>
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Messages In This Thread

• HDR replication setup on Windows
  LARRY SORENSEN -- Monday, 25 August 2014, at 1:14 p.m.
  • RE: HDR replication setup on Windows
    LARRY SORENSEN -- Monday, 25 August 2014, at 3:47 p.m.
    • RE: HDR replication setup on Windows
      LARRY SORENSEN -- Tuesday, 26 August 2014, at 11:14 a.m.
      • Re: RE: HDR replication setup on Windows
        BRYCE STENBERG -- Thursday, 28 August 2014, at 1:24 a.m.
        • Re: RE: HDR replication setup on Windows
          Art Kagel -- Thursday, 28 August 2014, at 6:46 a.m.
          • Re: RE: HDR replication setup on Windows
            david@smooth1.co.uk -- Thursday, 28 August 2014, at 7:30 a.m.
            • Re: RE: HDR replication setup on Windows
              david@smooth1.co.uk -- Thursday, 28 August 2014, at 1:24 p.m.
        • RE: HDR replication setup on Windows
          LARRY SORENSEN -- Thursday, 28 August 2014, at 1:17 p.m.
          • RE: HDR replication setup on Windows
            Paul Watson -- Thursday, 28 August 2014, at 1:40 p.m.
            • RE: HDR replication setup on Windows
              david@smooth1.co.uk -- Thursday, 28 August 2014, at 2:40 p.m.
              • RE: HDR replication setup on Windows
                Paul Watson -- Thursday, 28 August 2014, at 2:43 p.m.
          • RE: HDR replication setup on Windows
            david@smooth1.co.uk -- Thursday, 28 August 2014, at 2:22 p.m.
      • Re: RE: HDR replication setup on Windows
        MUKESH TANUKU -- Wednesday, 14 June 2017, at 2:14 p.m.
        • Re: RE: HDR replication setup on Windows
          Andreas Legner -- Wednesday, 14 June 2017, at 4:33 p.m.
        • Re: RE: HDR replication setup on Windows
          Andreas Legner -- Wednesday, 14 June 2017, at 4:45 p.m.

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