Installing ARIS Connect/ARIS Design Server using the standard database

Before installing an ARIS server on a Linux operating system you must provide ARIS Cloud Controller (ACC) and ARIS Agent to your Linux Red Hat or SUSE system. To allow customizing activities additionally provide the command-line tools ARIS Server Administrator, and ARIS Scriptrunner. Use the *.rpm files for Red Hat or SUSE systems. After you have copied and installed the files start the remote installation from a Windows system.

In RedHat and SUSE systems *.rpm files will perform these actions automatically:

Prerequisites

Make sure that the general prerequisites are met.

Procedure

  1. Copy the file aris10-acc_<number>-1.x86_64.rpm from the installation media (Linux) to the hard drive of your Linux system.

    This file provides ARIS Cloud Controller (ACC).

    Please note that ACC must be installed before ARIS Cloud Agent can be installed.

  2. Copy the file aris10-cloud-agent-<number>-1.x86_64.rpm or aris10-cloud-agent-SLES-<number>-1.x86_64.rpm from the installation media to the hard drive of your Linux system.

    This file provides ARIS Agent. ARIS Agent is needed to perform a remote server installation.

  3. Optionally copy the files for installing ARIS Server Administrator and ARIS Scriptrunner. These files are not mandatory for ARIS Server to be installed.
  4. Depending on the files you have copied and the type of the Linux system enter the relevant command to install the files. By default, these installations will create an unprivileged and locked user ARIS which uses /home/ARIS10 to install ARIS itself. If you want to use different settings make sure to change them before installing the first rpm file.

    rpm –i aris10-acc-<number>-1.x86_64.rpm

    This command installs ARIS Cloud Controller (ACC) (/bin/acc10.sh) to your Red Hat and SUSE system.

    rpm –i aris10-cloud-agent-<number>-1.x86_64.rpm

    This command installs ARIS Agent to your Red Hat system.

    rpm –i aris10-cloud-agent-SLES-<number>-1.x86_64.rpm

    This command installs ARIS Agent to your SUSE system.

    rpm –i aris10adm-<number>-1.x86_64 and rpm –i aris10-scriptrunner-<number>-1.x86_64

    These commands optionally install the administrator tools ARIS Server Administrator and ARIS Scriptrunner.

  5. Perform the ARIS Server installation from a machine running a Microsoft Windows operating system (DVD 1, folder Setups\Windows\ARIS_Server).
  6. Start the setup.exe file as an administrator.
  7. Select the Perform installation on a remote server option and enter the name of your Linux system.
  8. Only if you need to specify an external IP address for incoming requests please enter the server name or server IP.
  9. Change the ARIS Agent user's 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.

  10. If the ports 1080 or 1443 are already in use, specify the port numbers to be used. If you change the default port numbers users must ad :<this port number> to the URL (see below).
  11. To force secure connections uncheck ARIS Server port. If you do so, please make sure to make a valid SSL server certificate available.
  12. 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.

  13. To import the ARIS license file, click Change to navigate to the license zip 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).

  14. Select the Standard database system.
  15. 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.

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

    Warning

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

  18. If you are about to use a proxy server, please 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.
  19. Configure 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.

  20. Start the installation process.

This process takes some time. Settings entered during the setup process can be adjusted. Use the reconfigure ACC command (see ARIS Cloud Controller (ACC) Command-Line Tool.pdf document) to change settings. After the ARIS Server installation has completed, you must check the installation and configure the system.

To uninstall ARIS from a Red Hat or a SUSE system enter, for example, rpm –e aris10-cloud-agent and rpm –e aris10-acc.