Overview
Scope
This document guides readers through the different steps of the installation and configuration of the Denodo Platform.
Terminology
VDP: Virtual DataPort
VCS: Version Control System
Pre-installation checklist
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Comply (Y/N) |
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COMMON |
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Is the license available and valid for the new deployment? |
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Does number of processors meet the license requirements (if applicable)? |
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Does computer IP meet the license requirements (if applicable)? |
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Does Solution Manager server IP meet the license requirements (if applicable)? |
Only applicable for Denodo 7.0 and Denodo 8.0 |
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Does computer meet minimum system requirements? |
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Is Memory assigned to that virtual machine and actually reserved for it in case of virtual machine installation? |
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Does computer meet software requirements? |
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Is a support account available to download software or is the software already downloaded? |
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Is there a user to run the Denodo services? |
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License Manager |
Only applicable for Denodo 7.0 and Denodo 8.0 |
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Is the License Manager port open and accessible from the Denodo Platform servers? |
Check the port 10091 port is open in the Solution Manager installation. |
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VDP |
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Is a cache database available? |
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Are the VDP ports available and open for external access? |
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Check all the VDP ports are open:
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Are Excel and Access ODBC drivers installed? |
(Only if plans to extract data from Excel and Access files) |
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ITPilot |
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Are the ITPilot ports available and open for external access? |
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Check all the ports for all the ITPilot servers |
Aracne |
Only applicable for Denodo 6.0 and previous versions. |
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Are the Aracne ports available and open for external access? |
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Check all the ports for all the Aracne servers |
Scheduler |
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Are the Scheduler ports available and open for external access? |
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Check all the ports for all the Scheduler server (default 8000 and 7998) |
Web Container |
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Are the Web Container ports available and open for external access? |
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Check all the ports for all the Web Container server |
Installation checklist
Requirement |
Comply (Y/N) |
Comments |
Is the correct distribution of the Denodo Platform downloaded? |
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Is there a user with Administrator privileges to perform the installation? |
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Is the installer unzipped? |
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Is the installation correctly launched? |
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It can be started:
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Is the installation path set to the correct destination? |
On Windows, using C:\Program Files or C:\Program Files x86 is not recommended as it will require Administrator privileges for the installation and also to run the Denodo servers and tools (Denodo Admin and Development Best Practices) |
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Is the correct default locale selected? |
Post-installation checklist
Requirement |
Comply (Y/N) |
Comments |
COMMON |
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Is the license installed? |
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This can be done:
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Register the Denodo Servers in the Licence Manager |
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If Windows, have Denodo Windows Services been configured to run with the new user account? (optional) |
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Add to the Windows Services the login information of the user. It may require to create a system account to run the Denodo server with full privileges on the installation folder. |
If Linux, has linux service been configured? (optional) |
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Have the JVM parameters been configured appropriately for each Denodo application? |
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Solution Manager |
Only applicable for Denodo 7.0 and Denodo 8.0 |
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Change the Default Password |
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If Windows, have the Solution Manager Services been configured? (Optional) |
Installing the Solution Manager Web Applications as Windows Services |
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VDP |
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Change the Host name in the VDP Server (if applicable) |
Change the Host Name in the Virtual DataPort Server Only applicable for Denodo 7.0 and Denodo 8.0 |
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Change the Default Password |
Virtual DataPort, Data Catalog |
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CACHE |
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Is the cache database configured? |
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Virtual DataPort Admin Tool. |
Is the maintenance task configured? |
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This can be configured to be executed:
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Security and LDAP |
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Has the admin user password been changed? (by default “admin”) |
Virtual DataPort Admin Tool. Solution Manager Admin Tool (only for Denodo 8.0) |
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Is the LDAP data source defined? (if applicable) |
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Virtual DataPort Admin Tool. |
Is the database configured to delegate authentication to LDAP? (if applicable) |
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This may be done during deployment instead of during installation. |
Are roles defined/imported from LDAP? |
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This may be done during deployment instead of during installation. |
Are privileges assigned? |
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This may be done during deployment instead of during installation. |
VCS |
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(recommended for multiple developers in a development server) |
Is the VCS server configured? (if applicable) |
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Virtual DataPort Admin Tool. |
Is the environment configured? (if applicable) |
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Virtual DataPort Admin Tool. |
Is the database configured to synchronize with the VCS server? (if applicable) |
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Virtual DataPort Admin Tool. |
JMS listener |
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Are the JMS Connectors installed for the appropriate version? (if applicable) |
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Virtual DataPort Admin Tool. |
SSL |
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Is there a SSL certificate self-signed or from a CA for the Denodo server? (if applicable) |
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Only if SSL is required on VDP Servers |
Is SSL configured in the Denodo servers? (if applicable) |
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Only if SSL is required on VDP Servers |
Is SSL configured in the Denodo Platform tools? (if applicable) |
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Only if SSL is required on VDP Servers |
Is SSL configured in the Embedded Web Container? (if applicable) |
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Only if https is required |
Is SSL configured for external clients? (if applicable) |
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Only if SSL is required on VDP Servers |
Are the certificates of Data Sources imported in the Denodo truststore? (if applicable) |
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Only if VDP server needs to use SSL to connect to Data Sources. |
Is SSL configured in the Solution Manager?(if applicable) |
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Kerberos |
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Setting-up Kerberos Authentication (if applicable) |
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Setting-up Kerberos Authentication in the Data Catalog |
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ITPilot |
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(Only if ITPilot is required) |
Is Microsoft Internet Explorer configured with the appropriate proxy, security, and cookie options to run with the new user? (if applicable) |
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That will be the user used when running the Denodo Windows Services |
Is MSIE configured to use just one process for all the tabs? (if applicable) |
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Is Adobe Acrobat Professional configured? (if applicable) |
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Only if Adobe Acrobat Professional is required |
Is OpenOffice configured? (if applicable) |
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Only if Word conversion to HTML is required |
Aracne |
Only applicable to Denodo 6.0 and previous versions and if Aracne is required. |
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Is Microsoft Internet Explorer configured with the appropriate proxy, security, and cookie options to run with the new user? (if applicable) |
That will be the user used when running the Denodo Windows Services |
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Is MSIE configured to run IECrawler? (if applicable) |
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Scheduler |
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Is SMTP settings configured? (if required) |
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Is VDP server configured to grab roles information if permissions are required? |
Installation validation
Requirement |
Comply (Y/N) |
Comments |
COMMON |
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Does the Denodo Control Center start? |
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If GUI available in server |
Have you validated license information? |
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Automatically done using the License Manager. (if used) |
Are all the modules included in license enabled? |
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Solution Manager |
Only applicable for Denodo 7.0 and Denodo 8.0 |
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Does the Solution Manager Server start? |
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Does the Solution Manager Admin tool start? |
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Does the Solution Manager Admin tool connect to the Solution Manager Server? |
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VDP |
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Does VDP Server start? |
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Does the VDP Admin tool start? |
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Does the VDP Admin tool connect to the admin database? (if applicable) |
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ITPilot |
(only if ITPilot is required) |
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Does the Wrapper Generation Tool start? (if applicable) |
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Is the Sequence Generation Tool displayed in the MSIE? (if applicable) |
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Does the Wrapper Server start? (if applicable) |
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Does the Browser Server start? (if applicable) |
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Does the Maintenance Server start? (if applicable) |
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Does the PDF Conversion Server start? (if applies, only if Adobe Acrobat Professional was installed and configured) |
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Does the ITPilot Administration tool start? (if applicable) |
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Aracne |
Only applicable to Denodo 6.0 and previous versions and Aracne is required. |
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Does the Aracne Server start? (if applicable) |
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Does the Index/Search Server start? (if applicable) |
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Does the Exchange Crawler Server start? (if applicable) |
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Does the Aracne Administration Tool start? (if applicable) |
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Scheduler |
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Does the Scheduler Server start? (if applicable) |
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Does the Scheduler Administration Tool start? (if applicable) |
Update checklist
Requirement |
Comply (Y/N) |
Comments |
Is the update to be installed downloaded from Support Site? |
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Is there a user with Administrator privileges to install the update? |
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Are all the Denodo Servers and tools closed before launching the update? |
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Are all the MSIE instances closed before launching the update? |
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Does the RELEASE NOTES of the update point to any additional pre-installation task? |
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Read pre-installation requirements |
Is the installation of the update finished successfully? |
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This can be done:
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Does the RELEASE NOTES of the update point to any additional post-installation task? |
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