This document describes how to install and use the Information Center and the PDFs that the Storwize V7000 Unified installation program creates on your hard drive. This document describes using both the web installer and the DVD-based installer program. The first few steps are for using the web installer only.
Procedure
- DVD-installer only: When installing from the DVD,
a command window opens, where you must click within the command window and press
a key to start the installer:
- When the installation utility opens, click Next to
continue.
- Accept the license terms to continue, then click Next.
- Choose an installation location; then click Next.
The default installation directory is the C:\Program Files\storwize V7000 Unified 1.3.1 IC directory. This document sometimes refers to the disk drive and directory where you choose to install the Information Center as the installation_root_directory.
- Review the selections you have made, then click Install.
The Storwize V7000 Unified Information Center requires approximately 1.6 GB on the disk due to the size of the IBM User Interface Help System built on Eclipse 3.6.2, eLearning modules, the previous version and its Japanese, Korean, and Chinese translations.
- As the installation proceeds, you can see various files
being installed.
A progress bar exists at the bottom of the window. The PDFs are installed in the PDFs folder in the installation root directory.
An uninstall program is created and provided as a menu selection on the Start menu.
You can view the installation log in the Storwize_V7000_Unified_1.3.1_IC_InstallLog.log file in the installation root directory.
A successful completion panel is displayed after all the code is installed.
- Click Done on the Installation Program
window to close the program.
- Verify that the installation is complete by viewing the
Information Center entries in the Start menu list of programs. The Start menu has options for Storwize V7000 Unified 1.3.1 IC to perform the tasks that are displayed in the following illustration:
Two ways of accessing the Storwize V7000 Unified Information Center exist:- Stand-alone mode which is ideal for a laptop and personal use
- Information center mode, which is referred to as shared mode in this document and in the Start menu
Information Center mode is ideal for a server that everyone in a company might access. The Storwize V7000 Unified Information Center has more information about each mode.
Stand-alone mode opens the Storwize V7000 Unified Information Center automatically in a browser window by using a loopback port and web address.
Access the shared-mode Information Center by entering the web address into a browser window. Unlike stand-alone mode, a browser window does not automatically open.
The default web address for the Storwize V7000 Unified Information Center is this address:http://server_name_or_IP:9999/help/index.jsp
The port is 9999, which a later step shows how to change, if necessary.You can view the PDFs directly without going through the Start menu by changing directories to the PDFs directory in the installation root directory and clicking the start.html file.
The page that opens when you select to view a PDF is a simple HTML page that is not part of the Information Center. Simply close the page when you are done.
- You can start the shared Information Center immediately
on port 9999, or you can change the port to a port that works for
your workstation or your server.
To change the port, open the installation_root_directory\unified_131_information_center\customization_iehs.properties file in a flat-file editor, and change 9999 to the port of your choice, then save and close the file.
- After the Information Center starts, you can find more
information about stopping, starting, and using the Information Center
in the information container that is labeled IBM User Interface Help System
3.4.3 Documentation.
This set of topics describes these items:- Starting and stopping the help system in stand-alone mode, which is how you might do it when you want to run the Information Center just for yourself
- Starting and stopping the help system in information-center mode, which is how you do it on a server that you want many people to be able to access
- Navigating in the help system
- Searching in the help system
- Printing in the help system
- Accessibility and keyboard shortcuts in the help system
- Troubleshooting, although some of the topics are for an IBM service representative
- Building your help system, in case you want to use open source DITA or HTML to add your own documentation plug-in to the Information Center
- If you have problems starting or stopping a shared or stand-alone
Information Center, perform this step.
The IBM User Interface Help System runs under an Eclipse javaw instance.
When you stop the shared Information Center, the Eclipse instance is ended. Sometimes, Eclipse leaves a javaw instance running after you end it from the Start menu.
Troubleshoting tip: If you stop an Information Center instance, then later, cannot start the Information Center in a new instance, the reason is probably that the original javaw instance never ended.If you have a stubborn javaw instance, open the Task Manager with Ctrl-Alt-Del to view processes. Sort them alphabetically and select a javaw instance to stop. Unfortunately, there is no way to determine which javaw instance to end. You can always restart any Java programs that you inadvertently shut down.
