Chapter 2. Setup and configuration

This chapter contains the basic setup and configuration tasks that we

performed in preparing for the implementation of the scenario. The items we

discuss here consists of:

  Section 2.1,  System configuration  on page 7 shows the system

configuration that we used in our environment.

  Section 2.2,  Installation overview  on page 8 provides an overview of the

overall setup and configuration tasks.

  Section 2.3,  Linux setup  on page 11 discusses the issues involved in

setting up the Linux systems, including the hardware requirement, disk

partitioning scheme, and actual consideration on RedHat and Caldera

distributions.

  Section 2.4,  Application installation  on page 14 shows the installation

and configuration of the IBM software that is used in this project.

2.1 System configuration

Based on the pattern of e business user to online buying that we choose in

Section 1.2,  Pattern for e business  on page 2, we have a front end server

and a backend server. The system configuration that we used is shown in

Figure 2.

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Figure 2. System configuration for the project

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