Components and Configuration of ITPilot¶
You can install the following ITPilot modules:
Navigation Sequence Generator. Use it to graphically generate automated Web browsing sequences on Web sources. It is installed as a toolbar in the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser.
Wrapper Generator Tool. Used to create wrappers on Web sources. See the ITPilot Generation Environment Guide.
Browser Pool. Wrapper execution environment component required to run automated browsing sequences based on Microsoft Internet Explorer, and that can also use the Denodo browser.
Wrapper Server. Used to run the wrappers created with the previous components.
Verification Server. Used to automatically verify that ITPilot wrappers continue running properly after there were changes in the Web sources.
Administration Tool. Web administration console for executing wrappers and configuring the Browser Pool, the wrapper server and the Verification Server.
Wrapper Client Environment. API for developing applications that use ITPilot wrappers.
If you selected Custom Installation in the step 2 of the installation wizard, you can configure the following settings of the ITPilot modules:
Browser Pool: see section Initial Configuration of the Browser Pool.
Wrapper Server: see section Wrapper Server.
Verification Server: see section Verification Server.
Initial Configuration of the Browser Pool¶
When you select Custom Installation in the step 2 of the installation wizard, you can configure the following settings of the ITPilot Browser Pool:
Server port number: port that the Browser Pool will listen for incoming connections.
Shutdown port number: port that the Browser Pool will listen for shutdown requests.
Auxiliary port number: auxiliary port used by the Browser Pool to communicate with its clients.
Initial MSIE browser port: port used by ITPilot to communicate with the first opened Internet Explorer browser. Consecutive ascending port numbers will be used when additional browsers are requested.
In Windows operating systems, select Install as a Windows service to install the Browser Pool as a Windows service.
In the next wizard, configure the path to several application that may be required by ITPilot:
Acrobat Professional installation directory: path where Acrobat Professional is installed. You need this if you are going to extract data from PDF documents using the Adobe Professional software.
Open Office installation directory: path where OpenOffice is installed. You need this if you are going to extract data from Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel documents.
Wrapper Server¶
When you select Custom Installation in the step 2 of the installation wizard and you do not install the Virtual DataPort server, you can configure the following settings for the ITPilot Wrapper Server:
Server port number: port that the ITPilot Wrapper server will listen for incoming requests.
Shutdown port number: port that the ITPilot Wrapper server will listen for shutdown requests.
Auxiliary port Number: auxiliary port used by the ITPilot Wrapper server to communicate with its clients.
In Windows operating systems, select Install as a Windows service to install the ITPilot Wrapper server as a Windows service.
If you install the Browser Pool separately from the Wrapper Server, configure the following settings in the Wrapper Server:
Browser Pool IP address.
Browser Pool listening port.
In the event of also installing a browser pool, the values indicated for the pool during installation will be used as values for these parameters.
Verification Server¶
When you select Custom Installation in the step 2 of the installation wizard, you can configure the following settings of the ITPilot Verification server:
Server port number: port that the ITPilot Verification server will listen for incoming requests.
Shutdown port number: port that the ITPilot Verification server will listen for shutdown requests.
Auxiliary port number: auxiliary port used by the Verification server to communicate with its clients.
In Windows operating systems, select Install as a Windows service to install the ITPilot Verification server as a Windows service.
Furthermore, if a wrapper server is not being installed in the same installation, the wrapper server connection data must be configured:
Wrapper server IP address.
Wrapper server listening port.
In the event of also installing a wrapper server, the values indicated for this server during installation will be used as values for these parameters.