Preparing for Installation

Before installing ActiveSpaces processes as Windows services, create folders to save the realm data and the logs. Create TIBCO FTL configuration file and tibdg configuration scripts that can be later used to create the data grid.

Procedure

Create the following directories:
```
mkdir C:\activespacesdata
mkdir C:\activespacesdata\_default
mkdir C:\activespacesdata\logs
mkdir C:\activespacesdata\realm_data
```
The logs from the TIBCO FTL servers and ActiveSpaces processes are stored in the logs directory. The realm data from the TIBCO FTL servers are stored in the realm_data directory. The ActiveSpaces grid data for a data grid named _default is stored in the _default directory.

Create a TIBCO FTL configuration file with the following content and save it to C:\activespacesdata\ftl.yaml.

Note: TIBCO recommends that you run a separate TIBCO FTL server on each computer.

globals:
  core.servers:
    ftl1: localhost:8085
    ftl2: localhost:8185
    ftl3: localhost:8285
servers:
  ftl1:
  - realm:
      data: C:\activespacesdata\realm_data
      logfile: C:\activespacesdata\logs\ftl1-rs-log.txt
  ftl2:
  - realm:
      data: C:\activespacesdata\realm_data
      logfile: C:\activespacesdata\logs\ftl2-rs-log.txt
  ftl3:
  - realm:
      data: C:\activespacesdata\realm_data
      logfile: C:\activespacesdata\logs\ftl3-rs-log.txt
services:
  realm: {}

Create a tibdg configuration script with the following content and save it to C:\activespacesdata\_default.tibdg.

grid create copyset_size=2
copyset create cs_01
copyset create cs_02
node create --copyset cs_01 --dir C:/activespacesdata/_default/cs_01.n_1_data cs_01.n_1
node create --copyset cs_01 --dir C:/activespacesdata/_default/cs_01.n_2_data cs_01.n_2
node create --copyset cs_02 --dir C:/activespacesdata/_default/cs_02.n_1_data cs_02.n_1
node create --copyset cs_02 --dir C:/activespacesdata/_default/cs_02.n_2_data cs_02.n_2
keeper create --dir C:/activespacesdata/_default/k_1_data k_1
keeper create --dir C:/activespacesdata/_default/k_2_data k_2
keeper create --dir C:/activespacesdata/_default/k_3_data k_3
proxy create p_01
proxy create p_02
table create t1 key long
column create t1 value string

This configuration file is used later to create the data grid.

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