Lotus Foundations operating system installation

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Installing Lotus Foundations

If you are using a Net Integrator Mark I, Mark II or Micro II hardware, read the appropriate Quick Start Guide. To read more about configuring the Net Integrator, refer to the Net Integrator Mark I and Mark II Quick Start Guide. To read more about configuring the Micro II, refer to the Micro II G2 and Link G2 Quick Start Guide. After you configure the Net Integrator, proceed to the Lotus Foundations Start module installation section.

If you are installing Lotus Foundations on any other hardware model, continue through the following steps.

 

Setting up the server

Follow these steps to setup the Lotus Foundations server on 3rd party hardware.

1. Connect the power cord to the main power.
2. Connect the Local Internal LAN connection to Ethernet Port 0 on the server. Connect the other end of the cable into the LAN hub or switch. If you have additional Ethernet ports to connect to the internet or to other segments of your LAN, connect them now.
3. Connect a monitor and keyboard to the appropriate connectors on the server.
4. Press the power button and turn the server on.
5. Go to the system BIOS and configure it to boot from CD ROM.
6. Insert the CD Labeled "IBM Lotus Foundations, Disk 1" into the server's CD ROM.
7. Reboot the server so that it boots from CD ROM.

 

Basic Lotus Foundations configuration

To perform a basic configuration of Lotus Foundations, perform the following steps:

1. As the server boots from CD, select option 1, "Launch Lotus Foundations" by typing 1 and pressing Enter. If you do not select an option, Lotus Foundations automatically loads after 10 seconds. This step may take several minutes, and the screen might go blank during this time.
2. Observe the screen, and the instruction press Enter for a shell. Then press Enter to see the configuration screen.



3. Optional: Set the IP address from the console menu. For example, provide a valid IP address in this format X.X.X.X/24. The system chooses an IP if you are on the network, though you can update it at this time.

 

Create an administrator account

To create an administrator account, perform the following steps from a Web browser on a workstation that is connected to the same network as the server:

1. Read the IP address on the server console of the Lotus Foundations server. For demonstration purposes, the IP address 192.168.0.1 is used.
2. Open a Web browser on a workstation, and enter in the IP address for your server, appending port 8043. You must use a secure Web connection using https. For example: https://192.168.0.1:8043
3. Observe the Welcome screen, and accept the licenses. The Create Administrator Account page is displayed.



4. Create an administrator account. Leave the userid as root. Enter a valid password, and reenter the password. You might want to write this password down and keep it in a safe place in case you forget it. Caution: the admin user ID must be root.
5. Carefully enter the registered internet domain name of your organization. This information must be entered correctly as it cannot be changed later.
6. Enter the software activation key in the activation key field. For more information on this, consult the Lotus Foundations Start User's Guide.
7. Click Save Changes. The “Administrator Account Created” page displays.
8. Click Login. Web configuration continues the setup and server configuration.

 

Activating a system at a later time

There are two reasons why you might need to do this procedure:

1. You did not have the activation key when you did the initial installation.
2. You want to change an existing activation key that is already installed.

In either case, perform the following steps:

1. Open a Web browser on your workstation.
2. Read the IP address on the console of the Lotus Foundations server. For demonstration purposes, the IP address 192.168.0.1 is used.
3. Enter https://192.168.0.1:8043 into the Web browser's address bar and press Enter. The login screen is displayed.
4. Enter the administrator login.
5. Enter the administrator password.
6. From the main WebConfig Page, navigate to the Software Update link on the left side.



7. Within the Foundations Registration section is a field which enables you to enter an activation key.
8. Enter the activation key and save your changes.

 

Configuring disks

To configure the disks on a Lotus Foundations server, perform the following steps:

1. The Disk Status section in the Services Status table on the System Status page in WebConfig has a link that displays that the disks have not been configured. You have two options for disk configuration:
• RAID (no backup) - configure all disks into a RAID array
• RAID plus IDB (backup) - configure all except the last disk into a RAID array, configure the last disk as the backup disk.



2. Click the appropriate link to configure the disks.
• For example, if you have two disks, the Disk Status section displays "The main disk is not configured. You can configure disks #1, #2 all in a RAID or disk #1 as a standalone disk and #2 as an idb backup disk."
• For a RAID configuration, click All in a RAID. If you want to enable idb backup, click "Disk #2 as an idb backup disk".
• If you select a RAID configuration, then the RAID array begins to rebuild. This process does not noticeably affect the performance of Lotus Foundations.

Note: If you have three disks, the Disk Status section displays "The main disk is not configured. You can configure disks #1, #2. #3 all in a RAID or disk #1.#2 in a RAID and disk #3 as an idb backup disk." A Net Integrator system could have up to 6 drives, and a third party could potentially have more.

For more information on disk configuration, refer to the Lotus Foundations Start Users Guide.

 

Reboot

Once the disks have been configured, you need to perform the following steps:

1. Shut down the server.
2. Power the server back on and immediately remove the CD, prior to Lotus Foundations restarting.

The server should now boot directly from the configured disks.

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