A remote repository is an actual server holding the runnables, but it can also be a local directory in case you don't have a server available. The remote ARIS repository is made available during the setup process. Therefore, an http server is installed temporarily.
To add runnables to an ARIS agent that has not installed an instance of this particular type yet, you must make the ARIS agent use the remote repository that contains the runnables in question:
Start ARIS Cloud Controller (ACC). Under a Windows operating system, click Start > All Programs > ARIS > Administration > Start ARIS Cloud Controller.
To start ACC under a Linux operating system, execute the acc.sh shell script instead.
Enter the password of the ARIS agent user.
Make the ARIS agent use the remote repository to download the runnables. Enter:
set remote.repository.url = "<remoteRepositoryURL>"
When using a local repository, enter, for example:
set remote.repository.url = "file://d:/arisrepo/Setup_Data"
When using a server-based repository, enter, for example:
set remote.repository.url = http://internal.mycompany.com/arisrepo
If you have installed the ARIS server using the setup, the ARIS agent will be set to only take runnables from its local repository, to change that run the command:
set local.repository.only=false
The ARIS agent will use the provided remote repository.
File-based repository
The simplest approach is to simply copy the contents of the ARIS installation package ..\Windows setups\Setup_Data to a physical drive on the machine to which you want to add the runnables, for example d:\arisrepo\Setup_Data. In this example, the URL to your remote repository would be "file://d:/arisrepo/Setup_Data".
Server-based remote repository
If you have a distributed installation, you might want to use a remote repository, which can be any HTTP or FTP server that is reachable from the machine to which you want to add runnables. In that case, simply copy the contents of the folder \Windows setups\Setup_Data to your HTTP or FTP server into a suitable location.
If you use an HTTP server whose URL is http://internal.mycompany.com and you copy the files to the arisrepo\Setup_Data subfolder in the document root of that HTTP server, the URL to your ARIS repository will be http://internal.mycompany.com/arisrepo/Setup_Data.