WA1359 Lab Setup Guide Checklist

WA1359 Lab Setup Guide Checklist

e Machines must meet the minimum hardware requirements stated in the WA1359 Lab Setup Guide, most notably:

e Minimum of 1 GB of RAM

e Network connectivity

e Each machine in the LAN should have a unique host name.

e Each machine must have a static host name (and preferably a static IP address).

e Reformatted hard drive and freshly installed minimum base software:

e Windows 2000 SP4 or Windows XP SP2

e WinZip 8.0 (or higher)

e Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 (or higher)

e Netscape 7 (or higher) OR Internet Explorer 6.0 (or higher)

e Clicked the link IBM DB2 V8.2 Express Edition to download the DB2 setup instructions.

e Installed DB2 v8.2 Express Edition per the DB2 setup instructions.

e Make sure it was not ghosted.

e Confirmed a wasadmin user was created as a result of installing DB2 and that the wasadmin user has local admin rights to the machine. wasadmin should also have the following local security policies in place:

e Act as part of the operating system

e Log on as a service

e Logged off and back on as wasadmin, since this is the account the users will be using in class.

e Clicked the link IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.0 to download the WAS6 setup instructions.

e Installed WebSphere Application Server v6, IBM HTTP Server v6, and the WebSphere Web Server Plugin per the WAS 6 setup instructions.

e Make sure it was not ghosted.

e Clicked the link Rational Application Developer 6 to download the RAD6 setup instructions.

e Installed Rational Application Developer 6 per the RAD6 setup instructions.

e Make sure it was not ghosted.

e Clicked the link agesolutions.com/download/MSWebStressTool.exe, entered access2 for both the username and the password, and downloaded the Microsoft Web Application Stress Tool.

e Installed the Microsoft Web Application Stress Tool using the default options.

e Clicked the link agesolutions.com/publicdownload/heapdiff. Downloaded HeapDiff (i.e., HeapDiff.exe) to the C drive.

e Verified that there are no security profiles in place that will cause the wasadmin user to lose admin rights.

e Copied WA1359-REL_x_y-Supporting.zip to C drive and unzipped file to root of C drive, where x_y represents the version number (e.g., WA1327-REL_4_0-Supporting.zip). Will cause a directory called C:\LabFiles to be created.

e Opened C:\LabFiles \create-business-database.db2.cmd file with Notepad to make sure it hasn’t been corrupted by a virus scan.