Installer Execution Screens - 20.3

• Welcome
• Terms and Conditions
• Pre-Installation Check
• Windows Feature
• Configuration Checklist
• Server Farm
• Database
• User Authentication
• Website
• Application Pool
• Installation
• Finish

The Welcome screen includes the product name and version, and links to system requirements, the Precisely website, and Customer Support.

The Terms and Conditions screen allows you to accept or decline the terms and conditions, and you can print the page. Also provided here are links to the Winshuttle EULA andthe Winshuttle privacy policy.

Note: The default security settings in IE 11 on Windows Servers block the scripts needed for System requirements URL to operate correctly.

For the link to work properly, add the following entries in the trusted sites list of IE 11:

• https://support.precisely.com

The Preinstallation Check screen notes the availability of required applications, services, and environments.

For the Studio Manager Server Installer, preinstallation checks confirm the following:

• OS - Microsoft Windows Server 2016 or 2019
• PowerShell 5.1 or above

• Microsoft .Net 4.8.x
• IIS 10.0 or above
• SAP GUI 750 or above

If not already installed, Microsoft Visual C++ 2008, 2010, 2013, and 2015-2019 redistributables will automatically be installed.

If the requirements have not been met, the status of each requirement is indicated and Next is disabled. Click Back to return to the Terms and Conditions screen. If you would like to stop the installation, click

Cancel. When all requirements have been met, click Next to continue.

Windows Features screen notes the Windows features enabled with the installation, as listed below.

• ASP.NET 4.5

• MSMQ Server Core
• MSMQ Active Directory Domain Services Integration

• Web Management Tools
  • IIS Management Console
  • IIS Management Scripts and Tools
  • IIS Management Services

• Application Development features

  The

  • .NET Extensibility 4.5
  • Application Initialization
  • ASP.NET 4.5
  • ISAPI Extensions
  • ISAPI Filters
• Common HTTP features
  • Default Document
  • Directory Browsing
  • HTTP Errors
  • HTTP Redirection
  • Static Content
• Health and Diagnostics
  • Custom Logging
  • HTTP Logging
  • Logging Tools
  • ODBC Logging
  • Request Monitor
  • Tracing
• Performance features
  • Dynamic Content Compression
  • Static Content Compression
• Security
  • Request Filtering
  • Windows Authentication

Click Back to return to the Preinstallation Check screen. If you want to stop the installation, click Cancel. Click Next

to proceed.

Configuration Checklist screen lists remaining details required for a successful installation:

• Authentication Type
• An existing or new Farm
• Evolve URL
• App Pool User
• Database Server
• Database Name
• Database Authentication
• Installation Location

Click Back to return to the Windows Features screen. If you want to stop the installation, click Cancel. Click

Next to proceed.

The Server Farm screen defines the server farm and offers a choice between an existing and a new server farmconnection type.

Definition: a server farm is a collection of two or more servers that share configuration data.

• If you want to create an NLB setup, connect to an existing DB, or connect to a or a backup DB, click Yes.
• If you want to create a new server farm, click No. A new DB will be created during installation.
  

  Click Back to return to the Configuration Checklist screen. If you want to stop installation, click Cancel.Click Next to proceed.

  Database screen requests the database server and name in addition to account-related details.

  

  Provide the following account details forDB authentication:

  Windows Authentication - for the user executing the Installer

  SQL Server - username and password for the user with access to the server

  By default, the Authentication mode is set to Windows Authentication and the username and password fields are disabled.

  • The database server and name are required if the Authentication mode is set to Windows Authentication.
  • The database server and name, the username, and the password are required if the Authentication mode is set to SQL Server.

    Note: SQL Server 2017 and above are supported.

    A SQL Server database connection can be created with:

  • machine name
  • localhost
  • Use “dot” to indicate the machine currently being used

Cloud db includes additional methods to create a SQL Server database connection.

We do not support localhost and dot. If you want to use “dot” or localhost, all products must be installed on the same machine; please be aware that the Studio Manager server, App Pool, Web site, and Worker services may be impacted.

• When you click Next, the Installer validates the information you provided. If the validation fails, a descriptive error message will appear.

Note:

Below character set is restricted for the respective fields. An error is thrown in case restricted character set is used.

• Database Name - " ' * ? ;

 Error message - " ' * ? ; characters are not allowed. Please provide a valid Database Name. 

• Database Server- " ' * ? ;

Error message - " ' * ? ; characters are not allowed. Please provide a valid SQL Server Name. 

• User Name - " ‘ ;

Error message -" ‘ ; characters are not allowed. Please provide a valid User Name. 

• Password - " ‘ ;

Error message - “ ' ; characters are not allowed. Please provide a valid User Password. 

A new database will be created in a New Server Farm setup. With an Existing Server Farm setup, no change will be made to the database schema, but other changes will be configured – changes such as setting user permissions and database roles.

The file growth properties are set to 2 GB for both the database and the database logging files.

For Azure SQL managed Instances and AWS RDS we are using SOL authentication only and windows authentication is not supported. For Application database setup the SQL User must have DB creator and Security admin roles.

Note: The 20.2 Installer is set to Simple. If you are upgrading, it will remain a “full recovery model” (as of version 20.0). We recommend that after upgrading, you set it to Simple.

Click Back to return to the Server Farm screen. To stop the installation, click Cancel. Click Next to proceed.

On the User Authentication screen, select the account to configure for the application authentication – choosing Windows Authentication, SAML Authentication, or OAuth 2.0. (OAuth is an open-standard authorization protocol or framework that provides applications the ability for secure, designated access.)

If you select Windows Authentication, the Windows authentication security feature in IIS is enabled. If you select SAML Authentication, no change is made.

Click Back to return to the Database screen. If you want to stop the installation, click Cancel. Click Next toproceed. The Website screen allows you to indicate where and how you will deploy the application. The website will be deployed and configured according to the details you provide on this screen – you select the website name, secure or insecure mode, the IP, the port, and the host name. For secure mode, you must also select the SSL Certificate.

If SSL Certificate details are fetched when this screen is loaded, and if a new certificate is added, go back and proceed again to the Website screen.

When you click Next, the Installer validates the information you provided. If the validation fails, you will receive an error message.

• The website name, port number, and host name fields must be completed.
• With an https address, you must select SSL Certificate.
• The port number must include numeric values only.
• The website name and website bindings (a combination of the IP address, the port, and the host)

cannot already be in use.