2. Installing and Updating Replication Manager

This section is designed to help the user understand system requirements and all installation prerequisites. It also provides information about how to install, uninstall and update Replication Manager. It includes the following sections:

2.1. System Requirements

Before installing Replication Manager, please check your system against the following prerequisites in order to ensure that installation will be successful. The minimum system requirements for Replication Manager are as follows:

  1. Computer processor: 800MHz Pentium III or better
  2. Computer memory: 512MB or more
  3. Computer disk: 50MB or more free space (in addition to space required for the JRE)
  4. Screen resolution: 1024 x 768 pixels or higher

Replication Manager is a Java-based graphical client application, which means it relies on the client's hardware, operating system, and Java runtime environment. At this moment, Replication Manager is now distributed in Windows- and Linux-compatible packages.

Package Name Operating System Hardware JRE Windows System
ReplicationManager-win32.win32.x86.zip (JRE included) Windows XP, Vista, 7 x86 32-bit Java 6 or higher Win32
ReplicationManager-linux.gtk.x86.zip Linux x86 32-bit Java 6 or higher GTK

Replication Manager is based on Eclipse RCP 3.6.2 technology (http://www.eclipse.org/). Therefore, this version of Replication Manager will work on any platform on which Eclipse RCP is supported. For additional information, please refer to the supported platform list at http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/readme_eclipse_3.6.2.html. Replication Manager will be packaged for other platforms in the future if demand merits.

2.2. Installation Media

Replication Manager can be obtained in the following two ways:

  1. Replication Manager is included in the client package that is provided to customers who purchase Altibase DBMS.
  2. Replication Manager can be downloaded from the official Altibase download center at:http://atc.altibase.com

2.3. Installing and Uninstalling Replication Manager

Installing Replication Manager is very easy. Replication Manager is provided in ZIP file format. To install it, simply unzip the file in the desired directory.

Additionally, it is necessary to import an Altibase JDBC driver that is appropriate for the database to which one is connecting. Please refer to "Import JDBC driver file" below.

Replication Manager is able to work with many different versions of Altibase HDB simultaneously. However, it will be necessary to import multiple versions of the Altibase JDBC driver corresponding to the respective versions of Altibase HDB on each of the replication nodes. If, for instance, the user must connect to two different Altibase databases, which are version 4.3.9.100 and 5.3.3.33 respectively, then the user is required to import two versions of the JDBC driver files into Replication Manager, and to give them different names, for example, "Altibase_4.3.9.100.jar" and "Altibase_5.3.3.33.jar".

Uninstalling Replication Manager is also very easy. Simply delete the directory in which Replication Manager is installed.

2.4. Online Update

One benefit of Replication Manager is that updates are available online as long as an Internet connection is available. Using the online update function, it is possible to check for updates and get the latest version of Replication Manager with just a few mouse clicks.

To update Replication Manager to the latest version, follow this procedure:

1. From the Replication Manager menu, select "Help", then "Updates..."



An update dialog box appears if a Replication Manager update was found.



If no updates are available, a simple message box advising the user that no updates are available will appear instead.

2. Check "Replication Manager" under "Altibase", then click the "Next" button to continue.



3. You are then prompted to accept the Replication Manager User License Agreement. After reviewing and accepting the license agreement, click the "Next" button to continue.



4. The Installation page of the Install dialog box appears. At this point, you are ready to download the update. Click the "Finish" button to continue.



5. While updating, a Verification dialog box will appear, saying that this file has not been digitally signed. Disregard this message. Click the "Install All" button to complete the installation.



6. Replication Manager will need to be restarted in order to properly complete the installation. Click the "Yes" button to complete the update.



Now you are ready to start working with the up-to-date version of Replication Manager.