Installation of openFT

The installation of openFT is performed under the login name root.

The installation technique of openFT depends on the operating system and is described in the respective Release Notice. There are three different types of installation depending on whether an FT version is already installed or which FT version is already installed on your computer:

• New installation
  Your computer doe5s not yet have an openFT or has an openFT < V11.0 on it.

• Update installation
  Your computer has openFT version V11.0 or V12.0 installed.

• Installation of a correction version (patch)
  Your computer has openFT version 12.1 installed.

What you need to observe before installing openFT ...

• Operation without CMX is supported as of openFT V12. If you want to work with CMX and CMX is not yet installed on the system then you must

  • install the CMX version present on the data medium and then

  • activate operation with CMX in openFT, e.g. using the ftmodo -cmx=y command.

• The language used by openFT (German, English) is set in accordance with the LANG environment variable in the case of a new installation (exception: English is always set in HP-UX systems). For more information, see section “Switching the languageinterface”.

• If you want to encrypt file contents, you must also install openFT-CR V12.1 for Unix systems. This software is offered without a license at a fixed price. If an openFT-CR version < V11.0 is already installed, then you must first uninstall this version before installing openFT. You may only install openFT-CR V12.1 after openFT V12.1 has been installed.

• If you want to use the openFT-Script interface or the Java API then the J2SE^TM Runtime Environment 7.0 (JRE 7.0 with update 25) or higher must be installed on your system.

  The binary directory containing the java executable should be present under one of the following paths:

  /opt/*/bin 
  /opt/*/*/bin
  /usr/*/bin
  /usr/*/*/bin or
  /etc/alternatives/bin
  

  The openFT installation procedure then creates the reference to the Java executable which is required in Unix systems in the openFT directory.

  In other cases, the installation procedure issues a warning informing you that Java could not be found. It is recommended to install Java in one of the above-named directories and create the link to it. To do this, enter the following command:

  ftsetjava @s

  The ftsetjava command also allows you to check whether Java is installed and, if so, in which variant (ftsetjava @a) or check which Java variant is used (ftsetjava without parameters). In addition, you can set a path that is not located below the abovementioned paths (ftsetjava file_name).

• Instance directory

  The instance directory is set up during installation and contains subdirectories for application-specific data for the corresponding openFT instance, such as the log file, key pair sets and trace files. By default, the default path name for the instance directory is /var/openFT/instance on Unix systems.

  instance is the name of the corresponding instance. The standard instance named std always exists.

  When you create a new instance using ftcrei, you can select any path name for the instance directory.

The following sections describe which steps must be performed for the three installation variants by you as the system administrator as well as those which are handled automatically by the installation procedure.