How to make an ARIS remote repository available

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 into an ARIS Agent that has not yet installed an instance of this particular type, you must make the ARIS Agent use the remote repository again that contains the runnables in question.

File-based repository

The simplest approach is to simply copy the contents of the folder <DVD_Root>\Setups\Windows\Setup_Data from the installation media 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 <DVD_Root>\Setups\Windows\Setup_Data to your HTTP or FTP server into a suitable location.

Assuming that you use an HTTP server who's URL is http://internal.mycompany.com and you copy the files into the arisrepo\Setup_Data subfolder into the document root of that HTTP server, the URL to your ARIS repository would be http://internal.mycompany.com/arisrepo/Setup_Data.