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.
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. |
You can install the CentraSite Registry Repository and Application Server Tier on different machines, or in the same directory on the same machine. If you install the components on different machines, or in the same directory on the same machine but at different times, you must install the Registry Repository first.
Note: | You cannot install multiple instances of the CentraSite Application Server Tier or Registry Repository on the same machine. |
On the installation directory panel, the installer auto-detects a host name or IP address for the machine on which you are running the installer. If you are installing CentraSite, you might need to change that value, as follows:
If you install the Application Server Tier and Registry Repository on different machines, the value when you install the Registry Repository must specify a host name or IP address that the Application Server Tier can use to access the Registry Repository.
If you are installing
CentraSite in the cloud, the installer auto-detects the internal IP address of the cloud instance. If you want
CentraSite to be accessible from outside the cloud instance (for example, from another cloud instance running other products), replace the auto-detected value with an externally accessible host name or IP address.
On the product selection tree, select the products to install. CentraSite offers Eclipse plug-ins that let you work with and generate reports about CentraSite assets. You can install these plug-ins as part of Software AG Designer by selecting them on the product selection tree, or you can add the plug-ins to your own Eclipse environment later using instructions in the CentraSite documentation.
On the language pack selection tree, if you select the CentraSite Application Server Tier language pack, you must also select the CentraSite Shared Files language pack.
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. |
