To install ACT on Windows:
- Place the executable act.exe in a directory on your client machine. Teradata Aster recommends that you create a directory, C:\Program Files\asterdata and place the act.exe executable there.
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Set permissions to make the file executable:
- In Windows File Explorer, navigate to find the ACT executable file.
- Right-click on it, select Properties, click Security.
- In the To change permissions section, click Edit.
- Click the name of the group who can use the application, and tick the checkbox for Allow/Read & Execute in the bottom of the window.
- Click OK and click OK again.
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Test your ACT installation like this:
- From the windows Start menu, choose Run..., type cmd, and click OK.
- At the command line, change directories to the folder holding act.exe.
- Type act --help at the command line. The help page should be printed to the command line.
- To connect to your Aster Database, type
act -h <ip address of your queen> - When prompted, type the database username and password. (The default user/password credentials are beehive/beehive.) The <dbuser>=> prompt indicates you've logged in successfully (i.e. beehive=> for the default user). Type \q to quit.
- See the section Launching ACT for information on running ACT.