Hi,
What are the post checks/verifications i need to do after installation of 8.5 completed,that the installation is success or not .
Thank you very much for all your help while installation time issues to resolve it.
post verification after 8.5 installation
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Hi,
I would say this depends on Your installation. If this is a new install and not a migration from a former version, You can check all connectors You have to use, import metadata from Your sources and start developing. Otherwise there will be quite a lot of work to do to verify that all Your jobs from Your old installation are still working like they did in the old environment.
My client just went through the migration from 8.0.1 to 8.5 ourselves and changed not only the version of datastage but also the hardware and the database software version. So there was quite a mix of new warnings from Datastage, different requirements regarding join-syntax from the database etc. It took us almost 14 days to verify that the core of about 1.000 jobs in production work as they used to on 8.0.1.
I would say this depends on Your installation. If this is a new install and not a migration from a former version, You can check all connectors You have to use, import metadata from Your sources and start developing. Otherwise there will be quite a lot of work to do to verify that all Your jobs from Your old installation are still working like they did in the old environment.
My client just went through the migration from 8.0.1 to 8.5 ourselves and changed not only the version of datastage but also the hardware and the database software version. So there was quite a mix of new warnings from Datastage, different requirements regarding join-syntax from the database etc. It took us almost 14 days to verify that the core of about 1.000 jobs in production work as they used to on 8.0.1.
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The easiest is to examine the History section in Version.xml. This will report SUCCESS or some other status. If the installation includes DataStage, create two jobs, one with a Transformer stage and one without, to verify that your C++ compiler is correctly installed and configured.
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Basic checks:
Confirm you can login and connect from each client software, console, and web console with an admin ID as well as e developer ID.
Run the ISA Lite general health check on the server. Unzip the output file and view the HTML for ERRORS and WARNINGS.
Make sure you're able to stop and start all services on the server without warnings or errors.
If all that looks good then test compiling and running some jobs as Ray suggested, and as mentioned above by BI-RMA, then check each and every data source.
Check any add-on software: Packs, CASS, etc., whatever you've got.
If all that is good then you can start migrating projects one at a time and testing jobs.
Confirm you can login and connect from each client software, console, and web console with an admin ID as well as e developer ID.
Run the ISA Lite general health check on the server. Unzip the output file and view the HTML for ERRORS and WARNINGS.
Make sure you're able to stop and start all services on the server without warnings or errors.
If all that looks good then test compiling and running some jobs as Ray suggested, and as mentioned above by BI-RMA, then check each and every data source.
Check any add-on software: Packs, CASS, etc., whatever you've got.
If all that is good then you can start migrating projects one at a time and testing jobs.
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Go to the IBM web site for Information Server and search on "ISA Lite" or "ISALite" to download the most recent version for your server's OS. There you can also find the instructions. You should already have a version on the server that's installed by default but it can easily be out-dated. If on UNIX, run it as the root user from the command line. It's all menu-driven and easy to use. The client tier also installs ISA Lite, but I've only hit a few support cases where I've needed to run it on the client.
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