Installation of a patch means that openFT V12.1 is already installed on your computer. Please note the following:
Any running openFT-Script requests are aborted during installation. You should therefore complete all running openFT-Script requests before installing a correction version.
Any trace files, diagnostic records or files with console commands that may be present are deleted.
Tasks required of the system administrator
Install openFT V12.1 from the data medium.
On a system in which the openFT installation takes place in a dialog, you need to answer questions during installation asking you if you have a valid openFT-FTAM license and a valid openFT-FTP license. Only activate this option if you have a valid license for openFT-FTAM or openFT-FTP! Depending on the answers openFT-FTAM and/or openFT-FTP may or may not be installed.
This question is not asked on HP, AIX and Linux systems. openFT-FTAM and openFT-FTP are automatically installed on these systems if they were installed before.
- As of openFT version V12.1C30, openFT license keys (one for the openFT protocol and optionally one each for the FTAM and FTP protocol) can be entered at any time after installation using the openFT Explorer (Administration - License management) or the ftaddlic command.
If you do not enter a license key then openFT runs with full functionality as a demo version for 30 days. This demo version may only be used for evaluation purposes!
Steps performed automatically
The following steps are performed automatically on installing a patch:
Running openFT processes and the openFT Explorer are terminated.
Running openFT-Script requests are cancelled. Interrupted ftscript runs from start up again when openFT is started.
The admission profiles and admission sets, the log files, the startup and shutdown files (Linux, HP-UX, AIX) or the SMF connection (Solaris), the FTAM catalog, operating parameters and requests, the partner list, the key pair sets, and the configuration data for the central administration are taken over without changes for all openFT instances.
The language setting from the previous version is used.
The configuration data for the central administration is used.
If you work on an HP, AIX or Linux system, then openFT-FTAM and openFT-FTP are automatically installed on these systems if they were installed in the previous version.
openFT is started for those instances, for which it was started before the installation (not applicable on HP systems).