Introduction
GE Smallworld Core Spatial Technology, in common with all complex and comprehensive applications, requires regular maintenance if it is to provide the performance which will be expected from it.
The model, which it supports, is bound to change over time with additional requirements, differing business cases to be addressed, and improved understanding from users. This naturally imposes a need to change the system similarly.
The way the system is used is bound to change over time as well. Initially there is likely to be a major data collection task. This will be succeeded by few expert users making complex enquiries, and eventually by many users making a range of enquiries, together with routine data maintenance. It is necessary to modify the system to accommodate these changing requirements.
This course establishes the skills necessary to perform all the routine support and maintenance that will enable the system to provide a secure and effective service to users.
Audience
System managers with the responsibility of managing a GE Smallworld installation.
Prerequisites
There are no mandatory prerequisites for this course. Ideally, students should have experience of:
- Using Core Spatial Technology
- System administration (Windows or UNIX)
- GE Smallworld Magik
Aims and Objectives
After attending this course, students should be able to:
- Install GE Smallworld products generally
- Configure a Core Spatial Technology version installation
- Build and maintain images (including patching)
- Manage access to a GE Smallworld database
- Back up GE Smallworld databases
Duration
3 days
Contents
- Introduction: an introduction to the course
- Product installation: overview, interoperability, accounts and permissions, and installing the Core product, Cambridge Database and online documentation
- Product configuration: configuration programs, licensing, swmfs, crash handling
- User configuration: Windows and UNIX user configuration, user environment, Emacs
- Emacs and Magik: an introduction to using Emacs and Magik
- Loading products and modules: terminology, modules, products, directory structure and definition files, using the Module Manager
- Images: what is an image, using startup options, building application images, using icons for images, session control, command-line image utilities
- Dataset Controller: user datasets, search paths
- Security: overview, swmfs security, GE Smallworld Authorization system
- Installing layered products and patches: product upgrades, patches
- Plotting: overview, configuring plot filters
- Other facilities: caching, frozen files, working top, extracts, replicas, application servers
- Backup and integrity: backup fundamentals, GE Smallworld Backup Manager, datastore integrity
- Problem solving and disaster recovery: resource problems, human error, hardware failure, recovering from backup
- Images for application servers: connection services, OLE Automation and OLE DB Reader
