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| The Informix Lightweight Installer |
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| Written by Guy Bowerman | |
| Thursday, 09 October 2008 | |
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Last week a new tool known as the Informix Lightweight Installer was uploaded to the IIUG software repository. In a nutshell it is designed to help with embedding IDS on Windows platforms by allowing a pre-configured IDS instance to be deployed via a simple command line interface. This was written primarily for ISVs who deploy IDS as part of their application and require customized configuration settings beyond those available via the silent installer, or who need to deploy an IDS instance with pre-loaded dbspaces and data. This kind of configuration can be fiddly, particularly on Windows; the goal of this tool is to take the hard work away.
For a better explanation here are a couple of paragraphs from the readme: The lightweight installer (lwt_install) is a free tool designed to support embedding IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) on Windows platforms. It can be used as a deployment tool to redeploy pre-configured IDS instances (INFORMIXDIR and optional data spaces). Similar to the IDS installer, the lightweight installer supports certain customizations during deployment - the key difference is that the lightweight installer is designed to deploy pre-configured instances rather than set them up from scratch at install time. It can also serve as a data server instance manager (for example to clone and create new instances on the same machine). The lightweight installer is a command line utility designed to be called programmatically or from a script as part of an application installation, and therefore supports completely silent IDS deployment. To allow better control of deployed instances and post-deployment ease-of-use, the lightweight installer takes a number of parameters from the command line. Editing the onconfig file gives the most granularity in configuring an IDS instance. In essence, lwt_install is a lightweight alternative to the IDS silent installation mechanism for deployment. You can find it in the Miscellaneous Routines and Utilities section of the IIUG Software Repository (as well as the DBA and C sections), or jump directly to it: http://www.iiug.org/software/index_all.html#lwt_install. If you give it a try please provide feedback to Tosin and myself. What would you like it to do? What does your ideal deployment tool do? We'd like to see the functionality of this tool enhanced and coverage extended to other platforms.
Find more about it here.
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