Installing 2 MI-Clients on 1 device(WIN32)

[Former Member]

Hello,

i want to connect from my development laptop to different MI-Servers(Dev,Prod). Is there any possibility to install 2 MI Clients on 1 Laptop device?

Running the setup again seems not be possible,also coping the existing MI-folder and changing the connection settings is not possible(Client always overwrites the setting in the default inst directory).Any ideas or backdoor-solutions,(Joe;-))?

Regards

Frank

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

hello frank,

it is possible.

just copy your current MI installation folder to another

location and do the following to your copied images.

(no need to uninstall your MI.)

1. modify the altered path-dependent variables.

for details see

<a href="/people/sap.user72/blog/2005/12/21/how-to-reconfigure-mi-client-when-installation-path-is-altered to reconfigure MI client when installation path is altered</a>

IMPORTANT: you have to change your startup/shutdown script

files and your listOfJars.txt. if not changed your copied

MI installation will point/use files inside your original

MI folder.

2. for MI tomcat runtime, you have to change the service

port numbers of your other installations. modify the

<MI_DIR>\conf\server.xml

<Connector className="org.apache.tomcat.service.PoolTcpConnector">
         <Parameter name="handler" value="org.apache.tomcat.service.http.HttpConnectionHandler"/>
         <Parameter name="port" value="4444"/>
</Connector>

<Connector className="org.apache.tomcat.service.PoolTcpConnector">
         <Parameter name="handler"  value="org.apache.tomcat.service.connector.Ajp12ConnectionHandler"/>
         <Parameter name="port" value="8007"/>
</Connector>

if you are not using the Ajp12Connection you just can

ignore the binding error for your Ajp12Connection handler.

3. access your MI page of your copied installations thru

http://localhost:<portnumber>;

e.g. original installation port#: 4444

http://localhost:4444

copied installation port#: 5555

http://localhost:5555

IMPORTANT: you have to change this port number or you

will be getting JVM_bind exceptions.

this should solve your problem.

regards

jo

[Former Member]

Hi Frank,

In order to have two clients on the same device, do the following:

1.Copy your entire MI folder and paste it. 'Copy of <MI folder>' will be created.

2. Then unistall MI client from the control panel.

3. Install MI client, but change the installation path( different to that of the previous MI installation).

4. Do server settings in the client and sync.

And now you can use two clients on the same device.

Regards,

Rahul

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