9.05 Typical Installation Time

system · June 15, 2011, 10:00pm

In addition be aware of your system DSNs and that they are in the x32 environment and the x64 environment. The DSNs run in both. This is something not covered in install guide as it is specific to a split install.

Josh G.

--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, Mark Wonsil <mark_wonsil@...> wrote:
>
> > Also, don't accept any default install locations, don't install anything on
> > C: you don't have to(Admin console can't be changed) and don't have spaces
> > in your file paths, it just makes more places for possible errors to occur.
>
> Let me add to Ned's always useful advice:
>
> Install OpenEdge into a rather short folder name. If you plan to use
> the new Progress Explorer (not PET), it will crap out on you if you
> put it under Program Files or Program Files (x86). The path name is
> too long and it won't start.
>
> Mark W.
>

system · June 15, 2011, 4:22pm

We've been working on installing a test instance of 9.05 for over a week now and we're quickly running out of patience. The installation guides are all over the place, contradict themselves repeatedly, miss steps, and have generally been next to useless.

When we've called support (10+ times) they've found it "amusing" that we even tried to do an install using the instructions. They generally help us around whatever particular issue we're having, but they do it through a collection of things to "try" where no one is clear on the effects of the failed attempts. Once we get an issue fixed we move on to the next step, run into another problem, and start the whole process over again.

Our team is pretty technical and at this point we're beginning to wonder if anyone is able to do this easily or in a reasonable amount of time.

Have others had better success? Did you find a support rep that you could regularly get in contact with that helped you out? Is an installation with a separate DB and APP server something horribly exotic that is excessively difficult to pull off? Is there a secret guide somewhere with all the tips and tricks for getting around the holdups that the installation manual fails to mention?

We just want to get a better understanding of whether we're in the same boat as everyone else or if we're simply missing something.

Thanks for the help.

system · June 15, 2011, 4:33pm

We install Epicor 9 / 9.5 fairly regularly and as long as you are doing a
fresh install (vanilla Epicor) and you have already previously downloaded
all the 75 GB (exaggerating a bit) worth of patches and such we can do it in
2 - 6 hours (in one sitting depending on whether we want separate app server
vs db etc)

Its actually a fairly straight forward process, where are you getting hung?
The Install Guide is surprisingly ok for the Install Process (its the rest
of the crap that they usually get wrong).

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On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 4:22 PM, bcipes <bcipes@...> wrote:

>
>
> We've been working on installing a test instance of 9.05 for over a week
> now and we're quickly running out of patience. The installation guides are
> all over the place, contradict themselves repeatedly, miss steps, and have
> generally been next to useless.
>
> When we've called support (10+ times) they've found it "amusing" that we
> even tried to do an install using the instructions. They generally help us
> around whatever particular issue we're having, but they do it through a
> collection of things to "try" where no one is clear on the effects of the
> failed attempts. Once we get an issue fixed we move on to the next step, run
> into another problem, and start the whole process over again.
>
> Our team is pretty technical and at this point we're beginning to wonder if
> anyone is able to do this easily or in a reasonable amount of time.
>
> Have others had better success? Did you find a support rep that you could
> regularly get in contact with that helped you out? Is an installation with a
> separate DB and APP server something horribly exotic that is excessively
> difficult to pull off? Is there a secret guide somewhere with all the tips
> and tricks for getting around the holdups that the installation manual fails
> to mention?
>
> We just want to get a better understanding of whether we're in the same
> boat as everyone else or if we're simply missing something.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
>
>

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

system · June 15, 2011, 4:57pm

I felt your pain about 8 months ago.

While my company paid to have Epicor install the software, I tried to do it
on my own to no avail.

You are correct, the install guides are not written well. I believe it is
because their upgrade cycle is so fast, no one takes the time to actually
write a manual that works.

After going through a couple of upgrades, the manual makes much more sense
though.

yeah the first time is always the worst.

On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:22:42 -0000
"bcipes" <bcipes@...> wrote:
We've been working on installing a test instance of 9.05
for over a week now and we're quickly running out of
patience. The installation guides are all over the place,
contradict themselves repeatedly, miss steps, and have
generally been next to useless.

When we've called support (10+ times) they've found it
"amusing" that we even tried to do an install using the
instructions. They generally help us around whatever
particular issue we're having, but they do it through a
collection of things to "try" where no one is clear on the
effects of the failed attempts. Once we get an issue fixed
we move on to the next step, run into another problem, and
start the whole process over again.

Our team is pretty technical and at this point we're
beginning to wonder if anyone is able to do this easily or
in a reasonable amount of time.

Have others had better success? Did you find a support
rep that you could regularly get in contact with that
helped you out? Is an installation with a separate DB and
APP server something horribly exotic that is excessively
difficult to pull off? Is there a secret guide somewhere
with all the tips and tricks for getting around the
holdups that the installation manual fails to mention?

We just want to get a better understanding of whether
we're in the same boat as everyone else or if we're simply
missing something.

Thanks for the help.

system · June 15, 2011, 5:24pm

I found the learning curve was pretty steep, but after a bit it all makes sense. The hardest thing for me was we are running a split DB and APP install and the instructions are written for a single server install. Overall it took me about 5 hours to install everything, and about another 3 getting the goofy stuff ironed out with Epicor Support.

Joshua Giese
E905.604a

--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "Nick" <nick@...> wrote:
>
> I felt your pain about 8 months ago.
>
> While my company paid to have Epicor install the software, I tried to do it
> on my own to no avail.
>
> You are correct, the install guides are not written well. I believe it is
> because their upgrade cycle is so fast, no one takes the time to actually
> write a manual that works.
>
> After going through a couple of upgrades, the manual makes much more sense
> though.
>
> yeah the first time is always the worst.
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:22:42 -0000
> "bcipes" <bcipes@...> wrote:
> We've been working on installing a test instance of 9.05
> for over a week now and we're quickly running out of
> patience. The installation guides are all over the place,
> contradict themselves repeatedly, miss steps, and have
> generally been next to useless.
>
> When we've called support (10+ times) they've found it
> "amusing" that we even tried to do an install using the
> instructions. They generally help us around whatever
> particular issue we're having, but they do it through a
> collection of things to "try" where no one is clear on the
> effects of the failed attempts. Once we get an issue fixed
> we move on to the next step, run into another problem, and
> start the whole process over again.
>
> Our team is pretty technical and at this point we're
> beginning to wonder if anyone is able to do this easily or
> in a reasonable amount of time.
>
> Have others had better success? Did you find a support
> rep that you could regularly get in contact with that
> helped you out? Is an installation with a separate DB and
> APP server something horribly exotic that is excessively
> difficult to pull off? Is there a secret guide somewhere
> with all the tips and tricks for getting around the
> holdups that the installation manual fails to mention?
>
> We just want to get a better understanding of whether
> we're in the same boat as everyone else or if we're simply
> missing something.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>

system · June 15, 2011, 5:28pm

I do them on a regular basis, and I plan on 12 hours if it's a brand new
installation, and 16-20 if it is an upgrade, although it can be longer
depending on how long schema and conversions take. SQL and Progress also are
variables that affect the total time.

While I am sure it could be dropped to 6 or 7 hours, that is tough and would
definitely require a high end server just to process through some of the
stuff.

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bcipes
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 4:23 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] 9.05 Typical Installation Time

We've been working on installing a test instance of 9.05 for over a week now
and we're quickly running out of patience. The installation guides are all
over the place, contradict themselves repeatedly, miss steps, and have
generally been next to useless.

When we've called support (10+ times) they've found it "amusing" that we
even tried to do an install using the instructions. They generally help us
around whatever particular issue we're having, but they do it through a
collection of things to "try" where no one is clear on the effects of the
failed attempts. Once we get an issue fixed we move on to the next step, run
into another problem, and start the whole process over again.

Our team is pretty technical and at this point we're beginning to wonder if
anyone is able to do this easily or in a reasonable amount of time.

Have others had better success? Did you find a support rep that you could
regularly get in contact with that helped you out? Is an installation with a
separate DB and APP server something horribly exotic that is excessively
difficult to pull off? Is there a secret guide somewhere with all the tips
and tricks for getting around the holdups that the installation manual fails
to mention?

We just want to get a better understanding of whether we're in the same boat
as everyone else or if we're simply missing something.

Thanks for the help.

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system · June 15, 2011, 6:15pm

Thanks for all the replies! I think our biggest issue has been that our install introduces some complications that extend beyond the focus of the installation manuals.

For one, we're installing a separate DB and APP server (as well as Service Connect) and it can be difficult to determine what should be where. Also, we're trying to maximize our utilization of 64-bit environments for the performance benefits, but Open Edge and workstation compatibility issues are making that very difficult to accomplish.

Secondly, this is intended to be our test environment, so we've virtualized everything in Amazon's cloud and while that provides some extremely convenient features, it also creates some networking nightmares.

We haven't yet begun to try to import our 50GB 9.04 DB for the schema change, but that's what's coming next.

Are you all dealing with the same problems with split environments and bit version issues?

--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "Ned" <TechnoBabbly@...> wrote:
>
> I do them on a regular basis, and I plan on 12 hours if it's a brand new
> installation, and 16-20 if it is an upgrade, although it can be longer
> depending on how long schema and conversions take. SQL and Progress also are
> variables that affect the total time.
>
> While I am sure it could be dropped to 6 or 7 hours, that is tough and would
> definitely require a high end server just to process through some of the
> stuff.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
> bcipes
> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 4:23 PM
> To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Vantage] 9.05 Typical Installation Time
>
> We've been working on installing a test instance of 9.05 for over a week now
> and we're quickly running out of patience. The installation guides are all
> over the place, contradict themselves repeatedly, miss steps, and have
> generally been next to useless.
>
>
> When we've called support (10+ times) they've found it "amusing" that we
> even tried to do an install using the instructions. They generally help us
> around whatever particular issue we're having, but they do it through a
> collection of things to "try" where no one is clear on the effects of the
> failed attempts. Once we get an issue fixed we move on to the next step, run
> into another problem, and start the whole process over again.
>
> Our team is pretty technical and at this point we're beginning to wonder if
> anyone is able to do this easily or in a reasonable amount of time.
>
> Have others had better success? Did you find a support rep that you could
> regularly get in contact with that helped you out? Is an installation with a
> separate DB and APP server something horribly exotic that is excessively
> difficult to pull off? Is there a secret guide somewhere with all the tips
> and tricks for getting around the holdups that the installation manual fails
> to mention?
>
> We just want to get a better understanding of whether we're in the same boat
> as everyone else or if we're simply missing something.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
>
>
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system · June 15, 2011, 6:24pm

I recommend setting up a single server of x32 progress for conversions. It will cut the conversion times down significantly. After that all you do is move the DB from one server to the next.

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From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of bcipes
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 4:15 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Re: 9.05 Typical Installation Time

Thanks for all the replies! I think our biggest issue has been that our install introduces some complications that extend beyond the focus of the installation manuals.

For one, we're installing a separate DB and APP server (as well as Service Connect) and it can be difficult to determine what should be where. Also, we're trying to maximize our utilization of 64-bit environments for the performance benefits, but Open Edge and workstation compatibility issues are making that very difficult to accomplish.

Secondly, this is intended to be our test environment, so we've virtualized everything in Amazon's cloud and while that provides some extremely convenient features, it also creates some networking nightmares.

We haven't yet begun to try to import our 50GB 9.04 DB for the schema change, but that's what's coming next.

Are you all dealing with the same problems with split environments and bit version issues?

--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>, "Ned" <TechnoBabbly@...> wrote:
>
> I do them on a regular basis, and I plan on 12 hours if it's a brand new
> installation, and 16-20 if it is an upgrade, although it can be longer
> depending on how long schema and conversions take. SQL and Progress also are
> variables that affect the total time.
>
> While I am sure it could be dropped to 6 or 7 hours, that is tough and would
> definitely require a high end server just to process through some of the
> stuff.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vantage@yahoogroups.com<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf Of
> bcipes
> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 4:23 PM
> To: vantage@yahoogroups.com<mailto:vantage%40yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [Vantage] 9.05 Typical Installation Time
>
> We've been working on installing a test instance of 9.05 for over a week now
> and we're quickly running out of patience. The installation guides are all
> over the place, contradict themselves repeatedly, miss steps, and have
> generally been next to useless.
>
>
> When we've called support (10+ times) they've found it "amusing" that we
> even tried to do an install using the instructions. They generally help us
> around whatever particular issue we're having, but they do it through a
> collection of things to "try" where no one is clear on the effects of the
> failed attempts. Once we get an issue fixed we move on to the next step, run
> into another problem, and start the whole process over again.
>
> Our team is pretty technical and at this point we're beginning to wonder if
> anyone is able to do this easily or in a reasonable amount of time.
>
> Have others had better success? Did you find a support rep that you could
> regularly get in contact with that helped you out? Is an installation with a
> separate DB and APP server something horribly exotic that is excessively
> difficult to pull off? Is there a secret guide somewhere with all the tips
> and tricks for getting around the holdups that the installation manual fails
> to mention?
>
> We just want to get a better understanding of whether we're in the same boat
> as everyone else or if we're simply missing something.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
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system · June 15, 2011, 6:30pm

I know I deal with them.

Are you a progress or SQL DB?

There are different problems with all the different bit versions and such.

And from my own personal point of view, I wouldn't be doing a test
environment somewhere out in the cloud, that's something that I find to be
better completely local.

Also, if you are making a test environment, do whatever you can to keep all
the drives and file paths the same on your test environment as you are going
to have on your production environment.

Also, don't accept any default install locations, don't install anything on
C: you don't have to(Admin console can't be changed) and don't have spaces
in your file paths, it just makes more places for possible errors to occur.

-----Original Message-----
From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
bcipes
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 6:15 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Re: 9.05 Typical Installation Time

Thanks for all the replies! I think our biggest issue has been that our
install introduces some complications that extend beyond the focus of the
installation manuals.

For one, we're installing a separate DB and APP server (as well as Service
Connect) and it can be difficult to determine what should be where. Also,
we're trying to maximize our utilization of 64-bit environments for the
performance benefits, but Open Edge and workstation compatibility issues are
making that very difficult to accomplish.

Secondly, this is intended to be our test environment, so we've virtualized
everything in Amazon's cloud and while that provides some extremely
convenient features, it also creates some networking nightmares.

We haven't yet begun to try to import our 50GB 9.04 DB for the schema
change, but that's what's coming next.

Are you all dealing with the same problems with split environments and bit
version issues?

--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "Ned" <TechnoBabbly@...> wrote:
>
> I do them on a regular basis, and I plan on 12 hours if it's a brand
> new installation, and 16-20 if it is an upgrade, although it can be
> longer depending on how long schema and conversions take. SQL and
> Progress also are variables that affect the total time.
>
> While I am sure it could be dropped to 6 or 7 hours, that is tough and
> would definitely require a high end server just to process through
> some of the stuff.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of bcipes
> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 4:23 PM
> To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Vantage] 9.05 Typical Installation Time
>
> We've been working on installing a test instance of 9.05 for over a
> week now and we're quickly running out of patience. The installation
> guides are all over the place, contradict themselves repeatedly, miss
> steps, and have generally been next to useless.
>
>
> When we've called support (10+ times) they've found it "amusing" that
> we even tried to do an install using the instructions. They generally
> help us around whatever particular issue we're having, but they do it
> through a collection of things to "try" where no one is clear on the
> effects of the failed attempts. Once we get an issue fixed we move on
> to the next step, run into another problem, and start the whole process
over again.
>
> Our team is pretty technical and at this point we're beginning to
> wonder if anyone is able to do this easily or in a reasonable amount of
time.
>
> Have others had better success? Did you find a support rep that you
> could regularly get in contact with that helped you out? Is an
> installation with a separate DB and APP server something horribly
> exotic that is excessively difficult to pull off? Is there a secret
> guide somewhere with all the tips and tricks for getting around the
> holdups that the installation manual fails to mention?
>
> We just want to get a better understanding of whether we're in the
> same boat as everyone else or if we're simply missing something.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
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> have already linked your email address to a yahoo id to enable access.
> )
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system · June 15, 2011, 7:19pm

Thanks for the advice and we're on SQL.

--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "Ned" <TechnoBabbly@...> wrote:
>
> I know I deal with them.
>
> Are you a progress or SQL DB?
>
> There are different problems with all the different bit versions and such.
>
> And from my own personal point of view, I wouldn't be doing a test
> environment somewhere out in the cloud, that's something that I find to be
> better completely local.
>
> Also, if you are making a test environment, do whatever you can to keep all
> the drives and file paths the same on your test environment as you are going
> to have on your production environment.
>
> Also, don't accept any default install locations, don't install anything on
> C: you don't have to(Admin console can't be changed) and don't have spaces
> in your file paths, it just makes more places for possible errors to occur.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
> bcipes
> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 6:15 PM
> To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Vantage] Re: 9.05 Typical Installation Time
>
> Thanks for all the replies! I think our biggest issue has been that our
> install introduces some complications that extend beyond the focus of the
> installation manuals.
>
> For one, we're installing a separate DB and APP server (as well as Service
> Connect) and it can be difficult to determine what should be where. Also,
> we're trying to maximize our utilization of 64-bit environments for the
> performance benefits, but Open Edge and workstation compatibility issues are
> making that very difficult to accomplish.
>
> Secondly, this is intended to be our test environment, so we've virtualized
> everything in Amazon's cloud and while that provides some extremely
> convenient features, it also creates some networking nightmares.
>
> We haven't yet begun to try to import our 50GB 9.04 DB for the schema
> change, but that's what's coming next.
>
> Are you all dealing with the same problems with split environments and bit
> version issues?
>
> --- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "Ned" <TechnoBabbly@> wrote:
> >
> > I do them on a regular basis, and I plan on 12 hours if it's a brand
> > new installation, and 16-20 if it is an upgrade, although it can be
> > longer depending on how long schema and conversions take. SQL and
> > Progress also are variables that affect the total time.
> >
> > While I am sure it could be dropped to 6 or 7 hours, that is tough and
> > would definitely require a high end server just to process through
> > some of the stuff.
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On
> > Behalf Of bcipes
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 4:23 PM
> > To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [Vantage] 9.05 Typical Installation Time
> >
> > We've been working on installing a test instance of 9.05 for over a
> > week now and we're quickly running out of patience. The installation
> > guides are all over the place, contradict themselves repeatedly, miss
> > steps, and have generally been next to useless.
> >
> >
> > When we've called support (10+ times) they've found it "amusing" that
> > we even tried to do an install using the instructions. They generally
> > help us around whatever particular issue we're having, but they do it
> > through a collection of things to "try" where no one is clear on the
> > effects of the failed attempts. Once we get an issue fixed we move on
> > to the next step, run into another problem, and start the whole process
> over again.
> >
> > Our team is pretty technical and at this point we're beginning to
> > wonder if anyone is able to do this easily or in a reasonable amount of
> time.
> >
> > Have others had better success? Did you find a support rep that you
> > could regularly get in contact with that helped you out? Is an
> > installation with a separate DB and APP server something horribly
> > exotic that is excessively difficult to pull off? Is there a secret
> > guide somewhere with all the tips and tricks for getting around the
> > holdups that the installation manual fails to mention?
> >
> > We just want to get a better understanding of whether we're in the
> > same boat as everyone else or if we're simply missing something.
> >
> > Thanks for the help.
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> >
> > Useful links for the Yahoo!Groups Vantage Board are: ( Note: You must
> > have already linked your email address to a yahoo id to enable access.
> > )
> > (1) To access the Files Section of our Yahoo!Group for Report Builder
> > and Crystal Reports and other 'goodies', please goto:
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/files/.
> > (2) To search through old msg's goto:
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/messages
> > (3) To view links to Vendors that provide Vantage services goto:
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/linksYahoo! Groups Links
> >
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Useful links for the Yahoo!Groups Vantage Board are: ( Note: You must have
> already linked your email address to a yahoo id to enable access. )
> (1) To access the Files Section of our Yahoo!Group for Report Builder and
> Crystal Reports and other 'goodies', please goto:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/files/.
> (2) To search through old msg's goto:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/messages
> (3) To view links to Vendors that provide Vantage services goto:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/linksYahoo! Groups Links
>

system · June 15, 2011, 8:18pm

> Also, don't accept any default install locations, don't install anything on
> C: you don't have to(Admin console can't be changed) and don't have spaces
> in your file paths, it just makes more places for possible errors to occur.

Let me add to Ned's always useful advice:

Install OpenEdge into a rather short folder name. If you plan to use
the new Progress Explorer (not PET), it will crap out on you if you
put it under Program Files or Program Files (x86). The path name is
too long and it won't start.

Mark W.