Installation Requirements

Before you begin the installation, there are requirements which need to be met, as well as some information which you will need to have ready.

Verity License Key

To install a licensed version of Information Server, with or without Agent Server, you will be required to enter a license key during the installation. A separate license key is needed for Verity Spider.

Evaluation Copy

Verity welcomes you to install a 30-day evaluation copy of Information Server, with Agent Server and Verity Spider. A license key is not required to install an evaluation copy. The evaluation version of the Verity Spider allows you to index all sites within your domain (or intranet).

Web Server Availability

Your web server will be stopped and restarted several times during installation. Make sure your web server is not under heavy use when you install SEARCH'97 Information Server V3.6.

User Rights for Installation

To install SEARCH'97 Information Server V3.6 on Windows NT, you must be a user with Administrator privileges and the "Act as part of the operating system" right. Use the User Manager for Domains program to assign these rights if you do not have them.

Server Configured for TCP/IP

In order for Information Server to correctly index documents, whether with the command-line spider or Index Manager, the machine on which SEARCH'97 Information Server V3.6 is running must be configured for TCP/IP. This is true even if you are only doing file-system indexing.

DNS Access for Indexing

In order to index remote web site hosts, you must be able to resolve their host names to IP addresses. In other words, the system which is running SEARCH'97 Information Server must have access to a Domain Name System (DNS) server that knows about the remote web site host.

UNIX Installation Tips

Review the following recommendations before installing Information Server on a UNIX platform.

IMPORTANT! In order to run the command-line Verity Spider V3.6 under Solaris, you must have the correct operating system patch. For more information, see "Solaris Patch Level" in Chapter 1 of these notes.

You should install both your HTTP server and Information Server under the same user ID.

If the HTTP server runs under a different user ID than that under which it was installed, change the ownership of the SEARCH'97 Information Server installation directory and the files and directories beneath it to the user ID of the running HTTP server. Or you can just grant the user ID of the running HTTP server read-write access to the installation directory and its contents.

However, if the HTTP server is running as root, the vhttp component of Information Server should probably run as nobody. In this case, Information Server should be installed and owned by nobody. You should temporarily change the permissions on the HTTP server configuration files to 666 so the installer can make the proper changes.

You must modify the path of the user ID that will be running Information Server to include the /installdir/s97is/locale/language/bin directory, where installdir is the full path to the directory in which you installed Information Server and language is the locale language. This is necessary in order for the Index Manager to be able to index documents properly. Also include in the path the /installdir/s97is/locale/language/admin directory if you plan to use the command-line Verity Spider and will not give the full path to the vspider executable.

UNIX Installation Troubleshooting

If you encounter problems during installation, or just want to review what has happened, you can review the installation log files. These files are:



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