Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Can we install DAC client and DAC Server without installing Analytics application?

Sometime customer do not want to install the 7.9.x application but just need the DAC client or DAC Server. In order to setup the DAC client or DAC Server, you do not have to run the Analytics application installer. That is the beauty of DAC. If you have the DAC client or DAC Server setup on one machine, just zipped up the DAC folder and then unzip it on the target machine. After the unzip, if the directory structure is different on source and target, modify the DAC config files config.bat/config.sh and dac_env.bat/dac_env.sh and update the path.

Since DAC client/DAC server a JAVA based application and platform independent, there is no separate DAC server installer available on Unix platform. You need to setup the DAC on the Windows machine and the move the DAC folder to Unix machine in order to run the DAC Server on Unix. After you move the DAC folder to Unix, please make sure to use dos2unix utility on all the .sh files to remove the carriage return/line feed characters. If you do not run this utility and try to source the environement variables using the .sh file, it will not be set correctly.

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