The eG Installation Guide - eG Innovations

Installing and Configuring on Unix
Note:
The eG manager software has to be installed from a super-user account.
The steps involved in installing the eG manager are as follows:
1. To a temporary folder (say, /tmp) on the target Solaris host, copy the eGmanager package that
corresponds to that host. For instance, to install the eG manager on a Solaris host that supports
the AMD processor, copy the eGmanager package in the AMD folder.
2. To start the installation process, execute the command:
pkgadd -d
3. The list of available packages will be displayed next. Enter all to install all the packages related to
the eG manager.
1 eGmanager eG Manager
(SunOS) version 5.6
Select package(s) you wish to process (or 'all' to process
all packages). (default: all) [?,??,q]:
4. We recommend that the eG manager be executed by a special user account that is exclusively
created for this purpose. Next, the installation process attempts to create the eG user account:
Processing package instance from
eG Manager
(Sparc/AMD64) version 5.6
eG Innovations, Inc.
Enter the name of the eG user [egurkha]:
Specify the user account to be used for executing eG Enterprise. The default value is “egurkha”.
Enter the group to which the eG user is to be associated [egurkha]:
Also, specify the group to which this user account should be associated. The default value taken is
“egurkha”.
Note:
a. An existing user and/or group can be specified during this step.
b. The installation process checks for the existence of the user and/or group, and creates a
new user or group only if necessary.
c. If the eG agent has been installed on the same system, use the same user and installation
directory for both the manager and the agent.
5. Next, the installation process prompts the user to choose the path of the directory in which the eG
manager is to reside. If possible, the eG manager should be installed in the /opt directory. If space
considerations preclude this, the eG manager can be installed in any other directory on the
system. At the end of the installation process, a symbolic link is created to link the installation
directory to the /opt/egurkha directory.
Enter the directory where the eG manager should be installed [/opt]:
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