Installing the Siebel Gateway Name Server

A typical Siebel Enterprise Server installation starts with the Siebel Gateway Name Server. The reason behind this strategy is that when it comes to the step of configuring the Enterprise and the first Siebel Server, the Gateway Name Server has to be up and running.

It is possible to combine the Siebel Gateway Name Server installation procedure with the installation of the Siebel Server, the Siebel Database Server Utilities, and Siebel EAI Connectors. This is a typical scenario for a single-machine installation.

However, a more realistic scenario is to install each component of the Siebel Web Architecture on separate physical machines. For this reason, the following sections discuss the technique of installing the Siebel Enterprise Server components separately.

The installation of the Siebel Enterprise Server components on Microsoft Windows begins with double-clicking the setup.exe file in the Siebel_Enterprise_Server folder of the Siebel installation image. The following table describes the steps that the InstallShield Wizard guides us through and what entries and actions we have to take in order to install the Siebel Gateway Name Server on the machine that we dedicated for hosting it in our planning document. We described the planning process in the Planning the Siebel CRM installation section in Chapter 2.

We can verify the installation of the Siebel Gateway Name Server by navigating to the installer target directory. We can observe that the installer has created the following:

• A log file in the target root directory
• A directory that hosts the uninstaller program
• The directories and files needed to run the Siebel Gateway Name Server

The screenshot below shows the directories and files created by the Siebel Gateway Name Server installer:

In addition, we can check the Windows start menu for the existence of a program folder that should now contain a shortcut labeled Siebel Enterprise Configuration. This shortcut is configured to launch the Siebel Software Configuration Wizard, which we will use later to configure the Siebel Gateway Name Server and the Siebel Enterprise.

The log.txt file can be helpful in the case that errors occur during the installation process.

Note

In this and subsequent "Follow Me" boxes, you are invited to use the steps described in the above section to install the Siebel Web Architecture on a demonstration machine. Instructions on how to prepare this demonstration machine have been given in the previous chapter.

If you wish to follow along with this chapter, complete the following steps:

1. Run the setup.exe program and follow the steps described in the above table to install the Siebel Gateway Name Server on your demonstration machine.
2. Follow the verification steps described in the above section.