Installing Management Center

In this section we'll install Meta-Directory's administrative interface, the Management Center.

There are 7 steps in this procedure.

As soon as you run setup.exe a big blue window will cover your entire monitor, thereby preventing you from reading these instructions. By the time you get to Step 3 you should be able to drag the big blue window off to one side.

Since this procedure is pretty simple you might want to read these instructions first, then perform all the steps in a group. Just remember to skip MDAC installation.

Although we won't need MDAC to complete our demonstration, if we were going to access a database through one of the ConnectorViews, we would need it. In this course our ConnectorViews are static since we're just going to import some sample data as if it had come from a "live" ConnectorView.

Step 1. Run setup.exe.

To start the installation, double click on setup.exe in the temporary folder where you downloaded the Meta-Directory zip file.

Step 2: Skip the MDAC installation

The installation script will ask you if you want to install the Microsoft Data Access Component (MDAC). In real-world environments you probably would install this, but we don't need this software for our demonstration, so we can skip this step.

Click OK then No to skip MDAC installation and continue with Meta-Directory JoinEngine installation.


Step 3: Agree to the license statement


Step 4: Choose the installation location

Click on the Browse button and enter the correct drive designator.

Override the default drive designation and substitute the drive where you installed Directory Server 4.1. In this example, the Directory Server was installed on drive D in the \Netscape\Server4 folder, so we're going to install the Management Center in D:\Netscape\MetaDir.


Step 5: Specify the Management Center password

We suggest using netscape.


Step 6: Start copying files

Click Next to continue. You'll see a progress indicator like the one shown here:

When you reboot your computer you will loose your connection to the Alliance Learning web server. You will have to restart your browser to continue taking this course.

Step 7: Restart your computer

After the installation finishes, it will ask you if you want to restart your computer. Answer Yes, I want to restart my computer.

After your computer reboots, restart your web browser and continue with the JoinEngine Installation section.


Summary

In this section we installed the Management Center. The only significant configuration information we specified was the administrative password "netscape".

In the next section we'll install MetaView's JoinEngine.

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