Installing ARIS Connect/ARIS Design Server using the standard database

This procedure describes the installation on the active computer. To perform remote installations on Microsoft Windows machines, first run the ARIS Agent setup on the remote computers.

Prerequisites

Make sure that the general prerequisites are met.

Procedure

  1. The ARIS administrator must run the ARIS Server setup.exe file as an administrator
    (DVD folder Setups\Windows\ARIS_Server).
  2. Install ARIS on the active computer and use the default agent user credentials. You will change them in one of the following steps. This is to prevent unauthorized access to the system.
  3. Select ARIS Connect/ARIS Design Server to be installed.
  4. Select ARIS Aware. This will activate the dashboarding runnable and provide dashboards in ARIS Connect. If you do not select this option, the runnable will be installed but not activated.
  5. Select ARIS Risk & Compliance Manager if you want to install this program as well. The ARIS Risk & Compliance Manager installation procedure is described in the ARIS Risk & Compliance Manager Installation Guide (see installation media). Documents can be downloaded from Empower, where a login is required, or from the ARIS Download Center.
  6. Select the installation directory if required.
  7. Only if you need to specify an external proxy server IP address for incoming requests enter the proxy server computer name or IP.
  8. Change the ARIS Agent user credentials to prevent unauthorized access to your ARIS system. Make sure to store the credentials on a save place. If you forget the credentials, you can no longer update the system or modify the configuration.

    If you change the credentials, you will be further on prompted to enter that password you've chosen whenever you start/stop the ARIS Server or access your ARIS installation using ARIS Cloud Controller.

  9. If the ports 80 or 443 are already in use, specify the load balancer port numbers to be used. If you change the default port numbers, users must ad :<this port number> to the URL (see below).
  10. To force secure connections uncheck HTTP port. If you do so, make sure to make a valid SSL server certificate available.
  11. Select the suitable system settings option. You need to take the RAM required and the number of users who will be accessing the ARIS Server into account. For a productive system it is recommended to select the Medium or Large option.

    The Demo scenario option is recommended for demonstration purposes (laptop) only.

    Warning

    If the hardware does not fit the system requirements, a warning is prompted. In this case do not proceed the setup. Otherwise ARIS might not work reliably.

  12. To import the ARIS license file, enable Import now, click Select file..., and navigate to the license archive file. Otherwise, licenses must be imported after the installation.

    Make sure this file contains the required ARIS Server license. If you have purchased an ARIS Design Server license (YDS), ARIS Connect components are not available and ARIS document storage provides only basic functionality. ARIS Connect and the full range of ARIS document storage are only available if you are using an ARIS Connect Server License (YCS).

  13. Select the Standard database system.
  14. Enter the SMTP mail processing parameters of an existing account.

    Warning

    If you don't, ARIS will not send any notifications, due to the missing mailing functionality.

    But you can configure SMTP mail processing at any later point of time. Some parameters can also be managed using the ARIS Administration of this server. Please refer to the online help of ARIS Administration.

  15. Activate Use TLS/SSL encryption to prevent password sniffing.
  16. Only if your mail server requires SMTP authentication, select the option SMTP authentication and enter the user credentials.

    Warning

    If you enter these parameters but your mail server does not require SMTP authentication, the connection will be rejected.

  17. If you are about to use a proxy server, enter all proxy processing parameters. You can also enter them later, using the ARIS Administration of this server. Please refer to the online help of ARIS Administration.

    You can specify a URL to be used for validating the proxy server settings.

  18. Select the start option:

    Select Start automatically if you want to have the server started up with every restart of your operating system.

    Select Start manually if you want to start/stop the server on the active computer manually.

  19. Start the installation process.

    If you have changed the ARIS Agent default user credentials during this procedure, you will be prompted for that password you have chosen. Alternatively, you might want to modify the shortcut (Start > All Programs > ARIS > Administration >...). However, that bears the risk of a stolen password.

This process takes some time. Settings entered during the setup process can be adjusted. Use the reconfigure ACC command to change settings, such as ports (Redirect ports, Redirect ports) or ARIS Publisher settings. After the ARIS Server installation has completed, you must check the installation and configure the system.

To ensure optimum performance when you are using ARIS with the standard database system, we recommend that you regularly shrink the database. This prevents the used disk space constantly increases. To do so, execute the vacuumdb.exe file (<ARIS installation directory>\server\bin\agentLocalRepo\.unpacked\<build number>_PostgreSQL-run-prod-<ARIS version>-windows64-runnable.zip\postgresql\bin). For detailed information, read the instructions provided by the manufacturer.