Thank you for using IDS Server. For the latest information on
IDS Server, visit the IDS Software Web site at http://www.idssoftware.com/.
The following are some simple steps to get you started with the
IDS Server.
Step 1: Database Client Software
Configuration
The client software of the target database must be
installed into the computer running the IDS Server. For
Oracle 8i and 9i, install Oracle client including OCI. For
Oracle 7.3, you need to install at least Oracle SQL*Net
Client 2.3.x, Oracle TCP/IP Adapter 2.3.x and Oracle Call
Interface (OCI) 7.3.x. For Informix, you need Informix Client
SDK 2.01 or higher. For Sybase, install Open-Client (CT-Lib).
In addition, since IDS Server uses the shared library of
the target database system, the library path of the
database must be added to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment
variable.
Step 2: Start the IDS Server
On Unix, you can run the IDS Server as a daemon program
or in the current console or terminal window. To run as
daemon, execute the shell script runserver
in the IDS Server directory. To run in the current
console window, execute the same script with a
"-con" argument. For example,
$ /opt/IDSServer/runserver # Run as daemon
$ /opt/IDSServer/runserver -con # Run in current console
Step 3: Install the IDSExamples
Database
To install IDSExamples to Oracle, add the
following entry into Oracle configuration file
$ORACLE_HOME/network/admin/tnsnames.ora
Refer to Section 1.8.1 of the IDS Server User's Guide on
how to use Customer Data Source to setup Oracle data sources.
Step 4: Run the IDS JDBC Test
Program
The "IDS JDBC Test" can be run by the shell
script runtest in the IDS
Server directory. It requires that the JDK 1.1 or later is
installed in this computer, and its "bin"
directory is added to the PATH environment variable.
Step 5: Visit the IDS Server Home
Page
IDS Server can be used as a Web server. of the IDS
Server installed in this computer. The default TCP/IP
port number of IDS Server is 12.
Therefore, if you want to access this home page from a
remote computer on the internet/intranet use the
following URL:
http://server1.bogus.com:12/
The IDS Server Home Page contains additional hyper-links
for running sample programs and applets.
Please refer to the IDS Server User's Guide for
detail information of IDS Server and IDS
JDBC Driver. Also, the "IDS Software FAQ"
page in the IDS Software Web site is another great source of
reference.