Daylight
Daylight Installation and Administration Guide


Version 4.73
November 15, 2001

Copyright Notice

 This document and the programs described herein are Copyright © 1992-2001, Daylight Chemical Information Systems, Inc., Mission Viejo, CA. Daylight explicitly grants permission to reproduce this document under the condition that it is reproduced in its entirety including this notice, and without alteration. All other rights are reserved.
 


Table of Contents

1.Installation Instructions (* optional steps)

2. Customization Options

2.1 Introduction to Options
2.2 Defining and Customizing Options
2.3 #if / #else / #endif

3. THOR Database Concepts

3.1 What is a THOR Database?
3.2 Identifiers and Data
3.3 The THOR Data Tree
3.4 SMILES in THOR
3.5 Identifiers 3.6. Datatypes, Datatrees, Dataitems, and Datafields
3.7. Datatypes 3.9. Indirect Data

4. THOR database Anatomy

4.1 Four database types
4.2 Database files
4.3 The description file
4.4 The lockfile
4.5 The data and hash-table files

5. Networking: Client & Servers

5.1 Configurations
5.2 The Server
5.3 The Client
5.4 List of Current Servers and Clients Applications

6. Thor Server

6.1 THOR system 6.2 Database Caching(NEW section)
6.3 Starting Server 6.4 Multiple Servers
6.5 Stopping Server
6.6 Sending Messages to Users
6.7 Monitoring and Maintenance

7. Merlin Server

7.1 Merlin system 7.2 Starting Server 7.3 Multi-CPU parallel processing
7.4 Multiple Servers
7.5 Stopping Server
7.6 Sending Messages to Users
7.7 Monitoring and Maintenance

8. Server and Database Security

8.1 Security and the Operating System
8.2 Security and the Network
8.3 Server Security 8.4 Database Security

9. THOR Database Administration

9.1 Introduction 9.2 Database Creation and Maintenance 9.3. Record Locking
9.4. Read-Only Thor Databases

10. Merlin Pool Administration

10.1 Memory Usage
10.2 Loading a Merlin Pool
10.3 Columns and Cells
10.4 Column-creation functions

11. Sthorman

11.1. What is sthorman?
11.2. Starting sthorman 11.3. Navigating in sthorman
11.4. sthorman Functionality 11.5. Batch processing

12. Thorfilters

12.1. Introduction to Thorfilters 12.2. Entering Database and Server Names
12.3. "Generic" Thorfilters Options
12.4. Thorfilter Programs

13. Example Installations

13.1. Single-User Installation
13.2. Database-Server Installation
13.3. Multi-User Installation

14. JavaGrins/Dayutilserver Administration

JavaGrins/Dayutilserver Installation/Administration
Development with JavaGrins

Appendix 1: Platform Dependent Database and Pool Size Limits

A.1.1 SGI Irix 6.4 and Higher
A.1.2 SUN Solaris 2.6 and Higher
A.1.3 SUN Solaris 2.5
A.1.4 Red Hat Linux 6.1
A.1.5 What is my THOR and MERLIN database file size limit?

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