Installing Dispatcher

Note that a complete set of Dispatcher documentation is available to you online. After you install Dispatcher from its inst image, a Dispatcher.doc icon is installed in the Find: Alias/Wavefront toolchest. You can view the Dispatcher documentation by clicking on this icon.

To install Dispatcher:

1

Log in as root.

2

Choose a machine on which the spooler is to run.

3

Note its host name.

4

Go to the subdirectory that contains the dispatcher_install script.

cd /usr/aw/COM/bin

5

Run the installation script dispatcher_install as root on each machine that you wish to use as a client by entering:

./dispatcher_install

This script locates the Dispatcher binaries, keeps track of the machine you are using as your spooler, and sets up a shell script named dispatcher in the /etc/init.d directory to control how the Dispatcher is executed. The dot in the command stands for the working directory in which you placed yourself at step 4.

To find out whether you have run the dispatcher_install script or not, type the following command:

chkconfig

If the Dispatcher client is not set to on in the list of options that you can set, run dispatcher_install on that machine.

6

Follow the instructions on the screen (the script shown as follows includes explanations of what each section of the script tells the Dispatcher to do).

7

If the automount feature is on, specify the default pathname /usr/aw/COM/bin. Always express the pathname relative to the symbolic link of the mount point. For instance, if the directory /usr/aw is automounted and is a symbolic link to /tmp_mnt/usr/aw, give the pathname /usr/aw rather than /tmp_mnt/usr/aw.

8

Answer Yes whenever possible, especially to the e-mail questions, because this makes it easier to troubleshoot any configuration problems in your scripts or the scripts of end users.

9

When the installation is complete, enter the following to start the Dispatcher:

/etc/init.d/dispatcher start

An alternative to this command is to shut down and restart your machine.

10

As root, log into each client machine (you can also do an rlogin to each client machine), then enter:

./dispatcher_install

and answer the questions as explained for step 6. Each time you install a spooler, you must re-install all the clients. Previously installed clients cannot be used.