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Steps to Follow (for installation)

The following steps should be followed to avoid any type of confusion and a faulty installation of HC9:

In order to extract HC9 Linux installer please run the following command "tar -xvzf" and then:

  1. Specify the command to run the installer as shown below:



    It will take few minutes to extract the HC9 package.



  2. Now specify IP address of client HC9 machines.



  3. Now specify the IP addresses of allowed HC machine(s). You can also add multiple allowed machines if required, in that case specify IP address of each machine.




    All allowed HC9 machines are allowed to communicate with HC9 Linux.

    HC9 will keep a record of the IPs of all cluster machines in its hosts.allow file.

The later section of this document, describes how to register HC9 Linux machine with cluster.

Registering with the cluster

Following steps shows how to register HC9 Linux machine with the cluster:

  1. Enter the server name for MS SQL Server. This essentially is the name of the server where the central HC9 database resides.



    Server name should be the IP address of your server.
  2. Specify the IP for MS SQL server.



  3. Specify HC9 database name.



  4. Enter HC9 database user name.



  5. Enter the HC9 database user password.





    That's it! HC9 is successfully installed on your machine.

The later section of this document, describes how to run HC9 services on a machine.

Running HC Services on a Machine

Following step shows how to run HC services on a machine:

  1. To run HC services on a machine, execute command "hc9 start".

See also

HC Supported Servers
HC Supported OS and Distributions