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About This Book
The Installation Guide for Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise for 15.0.2
provides:
• An overview of the Sybase
®
Adaptive Server
®
Enterprise installation
infrastructure
• Instructions for installing and upgrading Adaptive Server, and
installing Backup Server™, Monitor Server, XP Server™,
jConnect™ for JDBC™, Java utilities, and client products, including
the Adaptive Server plug-in for Sybase Central™
• Instructions for installing optional Adaptive Server functionality,
such as auditing, and sample databases, and localization information
• Instructions on how to install Adaptive Server with SySAM 2.0.
Audience
This guide is written for Sybase System Administrators and other
qualified personnel who are familiar with their system’s environment,
networks, disk resources, and media devices.
How to use this book
This book contains the following chapters:
• Chapter 1, “Overview,” provides an overview of Adaptive Server,
and describes the Enterprise Edition, Small Business Edition,
Developer Edition, and Express Edition (on Linux) of Adaptive
Server. It also provides product descriptions and directory layout
information.
• Chapter 2, “Installing Adaptive Server,” describes pre-installation
procedures, SySAM related tasks, and how to install server
components.
• Chapter 3, “Post-Installation Tasks,” describes how to verify that
servers are running, connect to servers, set passwords, install
SAMreport, and install sample databases.
• Chapter 4, “Installing Sybase PC-Client Products,” describes how to
install Adaptive Server client products like the Adaptive Server
plug-in to Sybase Central.