Under the mount(s) point make directories whatif, users, models (owned by root:root with permissions 755). They can be kept on different mount points.

Make symbolic links from the file system root (ie /) to each of these directories

As root make server accounts: whatif, samm, tool with the following features:

• They are members of their own groups by the same name
• The home directories are under /whatif
• The permissions should be 755

• Get the latest and greatest from the web for samm, whatif, and tool and save them temporarily on your computer
  • NOTE there are additional instructions specific to each of these servers on the downloads page
• Get the install scripts too!
• Use winscp to put them in the correct accounts on the machines (note password for tool,samm,whatif same as root by default or may have been reset)
  • Make sure to remove any other files that end in .tar.gz or at least move them to a sub directory.
• Run the install*.csh scripts for each of samm, whatif, and tool
  • For example tool, login to the server using putty as tool and run

csh installtool.csh

This process is for linux

• There will be a file available with your whatif server downloads called whatif_inetConf
• As root copy and rename the whatif_inetConf file to /etc/xinetd.d/whatif the file looks like the following
  • Check the service name on the firts line and the path on the server = line

service whatif
{
        socket_type     = stream
        wait            = no
        user            = root
        server          = /whatif/whatif/progs/whatif
        log_on_failure  += USERID
        disable         = no
        cps             = 1000 30
}

• Update the /etc/services file and add: (NOTE if 8000 is already taken choose another port number that is free preferably in the 8000's or 9000's)

 whatif          8000/tcp                        # whatif services 

• Restart the inet deamon by doing

/etc/init.d/xinetd restart

NOTE on older versions of linux like the VM ware images which are fedora 4 you may need to hang up the inet deamon process instead

ps -ea | grep xinet
-- get the pid and run
kill -SIGHUP <pid>

This process is for solaris2 which is similar to linux:

Change the services file here: /etc/inet/services adding a line like:

whatif          8000/tcp                        # whatif services

Change this file: /etc/inet/services/inetd.conf adding a line like:

whatif  stream  tcp     nowait  root    /whatif/whatif/progs/whatif       whatif

and restart inetd:

/usr/bin/pkill -HUP inetd

It's important that the server get backed up regularly. All the model, and user accounts as well as the samm, whatif and tool account must be backed up.

This runs the whatIf? model base checker which cleans the model base and makes sure it is in a consistent state. We recommend setting up a cron job to run nightly which emails the report to your admin.

Make a text file on your windows machine called crontab.txt that looks like the following but adjusted for your site:

0 3 * * * /whatif/samm/progs/checkMB -force <your MB name> | /usr/bin/Mail -s "checkMB report for `hostname`" <email address of admin>

Use winSCP to put move crontab.txt into the home directory for the samm account

Login with putty to the server as samm and run:

crontab crontab.txt

Check for mailing capabilities Ask your IT department to enable the server to send mail so that you will get the emails from the above command

This process kills all left over processes that might have gotten hung during the day. It is also a cronjob but it is run by root. You may need your IT department to set this up for you since you may not have the ability to login as root.

Make a text file on your windows machine called crontabRoot.txt that looks like the following but adjusted for your site:

0 4 * * *  /whatif/whatif/progs/cleanWhatifAll

Use winSCP to put move crontabRoot.txt into the home directory for the root account

Login with putty to the server as root and run:

crontab crontabRoot.txt