Start the Installer, Provide General Information, and Choose the Products to Install

As you go through the Software AG Installer, you will be asked for various types of information, such as product license files and database connection parameters. Scan the pages in this chapter that show the installer panels you will encounter, and gather the information you will need before starting the installer.

Read the requirements in Using the Software AG Installer (for example, the requirement to create a user account that has the proper privileges for Windows and that is non-root for UNIX). Follow the instructions in that guide to start the installer and provide general information such as proxy server, release to install, installation directory, and how to use the product selection tree.

If you are installing Process Performance Manager on Windows 2012 Server, 2008 Server, 8/8.1, or 7, you must install using the Windows Administrator user account. To do so, instead of double-clicking the installer .exe file to start the installer, right-click the .exe file and click Run as administrator. Other user accounts do not work, even if they were assigned administrator privileges.

Important:

Unless otherwise stated for a specific product, do not install products from this release into a Software AG directory that contains products from any other release. Unless otherwise stated for a specific product, you cannot mix products from different releases in the same installation directory; if you do so, you will experience problems or be unable to access functionality.

On the product selection tree, choose the products to install.

After the product selection tree, the installer displays the language pack selection tree. For information on language packs, see the international operating environments appendix in this guide. The installer then displays panels (GUI mode) or prompts (console mode) that ask for product configuration information. The sections below show the panels, but the information and fields on the panels are identical to the information and fields in the prompts.

Important:

Make sure all ports you specify on panels or in response to prompts are not already being used by other products on your machine. The installer cannot detect whether ports are in use when products are shut down, and the shutting down of products is a requirement for running the installer. See the list of default ports used by Software AG products.