The installation process unloads Optim™ from the installation DVD to the target
workstation and additional workstations or servers.
You begin the installation phase by using
the program to load the application software at the first workstation.
You must enter your company name and the identification number indicated
in the email sent when Optim is
shipped to you. You must also designate a destination directory for
the application software. Depending on your license agreement, after
you install and configure Optim,
you may have access to one or more of the following components:
- Archive allows you to identify and archive sets of
relationally intact data before removing selected data from your database.
You can browse, search, or restore selected subsets of archived data.
- Move allows you to identify and extract, migrate,
and process sets of relationally intact data. You can create test
databases that are referentially complete subsets of a production
database, copy sets of related data from a production database to
a work area before revising and moving data to the production database,
or migrate subsets of data that require data transformations as part
of the migration.
- Edit allows you to edit and browse related data,
review logical application paths, resolve data problems, modify data
to test all possible scenarios, and ensure that one or more related
tables contain expected data.
- Compare allows you to compare before and after images
of relationally intact sets of data from a set of tables. You can
identify and analyze changes to related rows to resolve referential
integrity issues or identify similarities and differences between
two independent databases and verify database changes.
- Scheduler allows you to schedule process requests
to be executed in unattended mode.
- The Configuration program allows you to configure
the first and additional workstations to use Optim. You can also establish security and
perform various tasks to maintain the system environment.
- The Server allows you to process resource-intensive
tasks away from the workstations to reduce network traffic and improve
efficiency, to process data that resides in a UNIX or Linux environment,
or to use Optim Open Data Manager
to access archived data.
- Open Data Manager (ODM) provides Archive File access
for programs that use the ODBC and JDBC APIs.
Workstations or File Server
You
can install Optim on individual
workstations or on a file server for multiple users to share.
Note: Installing Optim on a file server is different
from installing the optional Server. Sites that consider installing Optim on a file server would generally
tend to be unconcerned with the volume of network traffic and, therefore,
may not derive any benefit from remote processing on the Server.
Your decision to install Optim on
individual workstations or on a file server does not affect licensing
requirements, but there are considerations for either method. The
advantages of installing on individual workstations include:
- Improved performance (the executables are not loaded
across a network).
- Users are not affected by an upgrade made on the
file server.
- Old images are not in use while installing, configuring,
or upgrading the software.
In contrast, a single installation on a file
server offers the following advantage:
- Ease of administration, both at installation and
when applying maintenance or upgrades.
Regardless of your choice, you should install
and configure each additional workstation to create desktop shortcuts
and create necessary Windows registry
entries.