Before you install

Before installing Surround SCM, determine the options to select during the installation. Keep in mind that you must be logged in as a user with full administrative privileges to install Surround SCM.

Users

Keep the following in mind before installing the Surround SCM Client and other components.

• Review the client system requirements to make sure the computer you are installing on has the required space, memory, and other resources to run efficiently.

Administrators

Keep the following in mind before installing and configuring Surround SCM server applications.

• If you use Helix ALM, the Helix ALM License Server and license server admin utility may already be installed on your network. Check with the Helix ALM administrator.
• Review the client system requirements and server system requirements to make sure computers you are installing on have the required space, memory, and other resources to run efficiently.
• Determine which RDBMS database type to store Surround SCM data in. See About Surround SCM databases.
• If you are installing the Surround SCM Proxy Server, we recommend adding a proxy server configuration to the master Surround SCM Server before the proxy server is installed. See Proxy servers.

• If you use Surround SCM Linux and will use PostgreSQL for the database, make sure your Linux server's locale LC_CTYPE setting is either UTF8, C, or POSIX. See PostgreSQL Installation Fails on Linux.