Apama 10.7.2 | Installing Apama | Before You Start the Installation | Ways to install Apama
 
Ways to install Apama
It is possible to install Apama in different ways, as described below.
Software AG Installer
You can install Apama using the Software AG Installer, which you download from the Software AG Empower website at https://empower.softwareag.com/. You can find it in the Software Download Center (SDC).
On Windows, you will normally use the graphical installation mode (that is, the Software AG Installer GUI). On UNIX, you will either use the graphical mode or console mode. However, the Software AG Installer also has options for scripted (that is, silent or headless) execution of the Installer, and for creating installation images that contain all the downloaded artifacts required to run the Installer locally without connecting to a server. For detailed information, see the Using Software AG Installer guide at http://documentation.softwareag.com/.
For more information, see Installing Apama Using the Software AG Installer.
Command Central
Alternatively, you can install Apama using Command Central. For more information, see Installing Apama Using Command Central.
Community Edition installer
Most users will use the Software AG Installer to download and install Apama, or any other required Software AG products. Some Apama customers, however, will also have access to a Community Edition installer (available from http://www.apamacommunity.com/) which comes as a single .zip or .tar.gz file that can be installed without connecting to Empower.
The Apama Community Edition is freemium version of Apama that can be used to get familiar with Apama. It does not need a license and therefore has restricted functionality (see also License Terms and Technical Restrictions).
There are two different types of community edition:
*Full version. Includes the full version of the Apama Community Edition. The installation file for this version cannot be used to install Apama Capital Markets Foundation, Capital Markets Adapters, or any other Software AG products. Aside from these differences, both installation mechanisms (Software AG Installer and Community Edition installer) operate in much the same way.
*Core components. Contains only the Apama correlator, the client APIs and the command line tools. You just unzip core edition and use it directly. It does not use the Software AG Installer.
Side-by-side installations
You can install the same Apama version more than once on the same machine. And you can also install several different versions of Apama on the same machine. This may be necessary to test a new version before it is taken over into a production environment. Each version, however, must be installed in a separate directory. For example, when Apama is already installed in a directory named SoftwareAG, you can install a second instance of Apama in a directory named SoftwareAG2.
Service packs
Some Apama releases are delivered as service packs which are to be installed using Software AG Update Manager or Command Central's fix installation functionality after the base major.minor.0 version has been installed using Software AG Installer or Command Central. The Apama Release Notes may have more information about the end of support for a specific service pack version. Note that the support lifetime for a service pack may be different, depending on the base version on which the service pack is installed.
Docker and Software AG images
Software AG has a presence on the Docker Hub image repository. Several images are available for Software AG products. The offering from Apama is an image which will run an instance of the correlator application. See https://hub.docker.com/publishers/softwareag for the published images.
Alternatively, images for several products, including Apama, may be built from an installation using scripts included in the installation. For more information, see Introduction to Apama in Docker.