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Thursday, May 10, 2007

TeamCenter Engineering complete installation cookbook

My friend Sathish Raju given the following document on Teamcenter Engineering Installation..This is his efforts of training and I got the previlege to access this and post, just because I was with him for a day... :)

Thanks to Sathish


Teamcenter Engineering Installation on Solaris

Setting the X-Server:
From root console use the command: xhost +localhost

Creating Teamcenter Engineering Database:
Login as oracle or switch user to oracle: su oracle
Set ORACLE_HOME environment variable
Change directory to $ORACLE_HOME/bin
Run dbca
Follow the instructions on the UI to create a new Teamcenter Engineering database

Installing Teamcenter Engineering Corporate Server
Login as infodba or switch user to infodba: su infodba
Make sure the environment variables ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID are set
Change directory to
Launch TEM (tem.sh)
In the Features, Select Corporate Server
Follow the instructions on-screen to complete the installation

Installing Teamcenter Engineering Two Tier Rich Client
Login as infodba or switch user to infodba: su infodba
Change directory to
Launch TEM (tem.sh)
In the Features, Select Rich Client
Follow the instructions on-screen to complete the installation

Launching Portal
Change directory to the Portal installation directory
Launch the portal (start_portal.sh)

Install Web Application Manager
Create a directory for the Web Application Manager
Change directory to the Web Application Manager directory
Extract INSTALL_TCWEB.TZ: cat /Web_Tier/INSTALL_TCWEB.TZ uncompress -c tar xvf -

Generate the Web Tier Application
Change directory to the Web Application Manager directory
Run insweb
Copy the ICDs
Add Web Applications
Under thin Client Solution Type, select the following Solutions: Teamcenter Enterprise Tier, Teamcenter Presentation Tier Infrastructure and Teamcenter - Presentation Tier
On completion, the EAR and WAR files are generated.

Set up the Application Server
Make sure the Weblogic Server is installed
Create a domain and start the server
Login to the console: http://localhost:7001/console
Under Applications, select Deploy a new application
Select tc.ear and deploy
Check the deployment using the URL http://localhost:7001/tc/services/PLMGatewayService

Setting up a Rich Client Distribution Server
make sure Apache is installed
Change directory to the Web Application Manager directory
Run insweb
Copy the ICDs from Over-The-Web installer media
Add a new Web Application
Under Advanced Web Application Options make sure the Deployable File Name is tc
Select the Solution Type as Distribution Server
Under Solutions, select Distribution Server
On completion, the Distribution image is created

Creating a Four Tier Rich Client Instance
Change directory to the Web Application Manager directory
Run insweb
Add a new Web Application
Select the Solution Type as Distribution Server Instance
Under Solutions, select Over-the-web Installer, Rich Client 4-Tier[1]
Change the host name if required, in the following screens
On completion, the Rich Client Instance is created
Change directory to Apache_home/htdocs folder
Copy all the files from four_tier/webapp_root/otwweb to the current directory
Change directory to distserver/webapp_root
start rmi and server (start_rmi.sh start_server.sh)

Install the Four Tier Rich Client Instance
From the client machine access the URL http://hostname/Four_tier_rich_client/otw.html
This will automatically install the Four-Tier Rich Client

Launching Four Tier Rich Client Portal
Change directory to the four tier rich client folder/portal
Launch the portal (start_portal.sh)

Launching Thin Client
From the client machine, access the URL http://hostname:7001/tc/webclient