Table Of Contents - IBM Prerequisite Scanner User Manual

Contents
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Chapter 1. Prerequisite Scanner
overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Prerequisite Scanner architecture.
Prerequisite properties .
Product codes . .
Prerequisite Scanner configuration files .
Prerequisite Scanner collectors .
Prerequisite Scanner evaluators .
Output formats . .
Scanning process . .
New in this release . .
Chapter 2. Installing Prerequisite
Scanner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Prerequisites . . . .
Installing the compressed file .
Uninstalling Prerequisite Scanner .
Chapter 3. Extending Prerequisite
Scanner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Before you run Prerequisite Scanner .
Required checks and extension tasks for
Windows systems .
Required checks and extension tasks for UNIX
systems. . . . .
Adding product codes .
Creating custom configuration files
Adding prerequisite properties .
Editing prerequisite properties .
Creating custom collectors for Windows systems .
Creating custom VBScript collectors common to
all configuration files .
Creating custom VBScript collectors specific to a
product and product version
Creating custom collectors for UNIX systems .
Editing the package test script for UNIX systems .
Creating custom evaluators for Windows systems
Creating custom evaluators for UNIX systems .
Chapter 4. Running Prerequisite
Scanner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
prereq_checker . . .
Running Prerequisite Scanner from the command
line . . . . . . .
Common directory locations .
Chapter 5. Troubleshooting
Prerequisite Scanner
Troubleshooting on Windows systems
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Execution problems.
Return codes .
Appendix A. Product codes reference
Appendix B. Configuration files
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Appendix C. Prerequisite properties
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Common data properties .
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Autonomic Deployment Engine data properties .
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Connectivity data properties .
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DB2 data properties
MS SQL Server data properties .
Internet Explorer data properties .
Network data properties .
Oracle data properties .
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Operating system data properties .
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Installed software data properties
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User data properties .
Windows network data properties .
UNIX network data properties
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Appendix D. Predefined collectors for
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Appendix E. Common functions for
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Windows systems . . . . . . . . . 113
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allFiles() . . .
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arrayToString() .
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bigthan() . . .
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changeMG() . .
checkItemToString() .
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dictionaryToString() .
exeCommand() .
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filterCommand() .
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filterFile(). . .
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findNewest() .
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findSuitableFile() .
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fmt() . . . .
formatForDisplay()
formatSizeForDisplay() .
getDecimalSeparator()
getFirstMatch() .
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isMatch() . . .
notInLatter(). .
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passOrFail() . .
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ppread() . . .
readFile() . . .
unitMGTOG() .
varToString() .
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