Re: Ingres II 2.0 in a Citrix environment

Richard,

 What I did here was create a single installation of Ingres on one
CITRIX server box using the II_HOSTNAME facility. The hostname I used
here was WINPC so it was independant of the server name. I only then
had to install Ingres once, on the master installation node. Our
CITRIX people then cloned the disk to the other 20 servers in the farm
and renamed the node names (hence the use of the II_HOSTNAME to keep
Ingres independant of the actual node name).

  This setup is useful when a node needs rebuilding or additional
nodes are to be added, the Ingres administrator is not involved !!
Also because the configuration on every box is the same and the
underlying files are named identically (e.g. Names area) files can be
copied at will (who would do such a thing ?).

  Gotcha's are the symbol.tbl file going walkies on reboot (use
SRVANY.EXE off the W2K resource kit to create an automatic recovery
service that starts before Ingres does and puts the SYMBOL.JIC into
action !) and GCC's deregistering themselves (run more than one and
the problem will go away...).

  As for configuration, use the netuil -file scripts.

 I'm pretty sure IngresII 2.0 is NOT supported under CITRIX (terminal
services), you'll have to install 2.6 + Patches !

  Hope this all helps (Is Ingres actually in use in NZ ?)

  Cheers

  Gary