Planning the installation of MobileFirst Server

You must plan your installation and choose one installation scenario. You must also plan the creation of your databases and the topology of the application server.

To install the MobileFirst Server, you can choose one of the following scenarios:
  • With the Server Configuration Tool.
    The Server Configuration Tool is a graphical tool and is available for Windows, Linux on x86, and Mac OS. With this tool, you get easily started, but expect some limitations when you maintain an application in production, in particular for some upgrade scenarios. This tool can export Ant files.
    Restriction:
    • The Server Configuration Tool does not support server farms. Therefore, you cannot use it to define, install, upgrade, or uninstall server farms. For server farms, use the provided Ant script or follow manual steps in your application server. For more information, see Installing a server farm.
    • The Server Configuration Tool for Mac OS is available for development and test purposes only.
  • Ant tasks: Ant command-line files automate the process of creating or upgrading a database, either automatically or as a complement of a database preparation by a database administrator. The Ant tasks also automate the process of installing or upgrading the Administration Services and the MobileFirst Operations Console in an application server. Ant tasks provide a high level of control for individual operations on the database or on the application server.
  • Manual installation.
Parent topic: Installing MobileFirst Server