Staging area

With the Staging Wizard you create a staging area.

A staging area is used for the Infor LN installation process to install components. The components that are stored in the staging area are called Installable Units (IU). The Installation Wizard can install the Installable Units in one run. The installation wizard fulfills several tasks automatically during the installation process. We recommend that you use the installation wizard.

Note: Be aware that when you set up your LN environment, new improvements are made on top of the main basic media. We recommend that you download and stage the new solutions before starting the installation procedure.

We recommend that you do not use any existing (old) staging area, but create a new one instead. You can create one of these staging areas:

  • A staging area for Infor ES PMC Solutions (tools) and the Infor ES AddOn PMC Solutions.
  • A complete staging area with Infor ES PMC Solution (tools), the Infor ES AddOn PMC Solutions, and the Infor LN PMC Solution (application).

Start the Staging Wizard from the Infor Enterprise Server medium 1-2 to create a staging area. The Wizard asks you to specify a destination directory on disk where to copy the Installable Units.

After creating the staging area on disk, you can also stage the Infor LN 10.8 medium.

To start the Staging Wizard from the Infor Enterprise Server medium (1-2), navigate to <Install medium>\Start folder. Double-click StartFirst.exe. A page is displayed with information about installing several software components on the media. Read the screen carefully and click the appropriate here link to start the Staging Wizard.

Click the Start Staging Wizard link at the center of the page.

The Staging Wizard is started and guides you through the staging process.

Note: The Infor Enterprise Server medium (2-2) contains, among others, the web-based user interface and extended connectivity software for LN. The installation of this medium is described in "Installing user interface software" in the Infor LN Installation Guide.

Downloading and staging the solutions

We recommend that you include the latest Infor LN and Infor ES PMC Solutions in your installation process. These PMC solutions may include software fixes and new functionality.

This table shows the KB articles from which the PMC solutions can be downloaded in the Infor Customer Portal:

Product KB
Infor ES KB1404654 Click the link for your version under Generic Tools Solution and then download the TT and TL solution dumps.
Infor ES Addon KB1404654 Click the link for your version under Generic Tools Solution and then download the TM, NT, DA and TA solution dumps.
Infor LN Applications KB2867311 Click the link for your version under Last Minute Notes and then the link to the Monthly Collection Dump. Download the monthly collections.
Business Objects Package KB2945150 Download the monthly collections.

After the required PMC solutions and monthly collections have been downloaded to a folder on your PC, start the Staging Wizard. To stage all downloaded dumps in the correct Installable Unit folder, redirect the wizard to the folder where you downloaded the files.