Preparing for the Installation

As an administrator, there is a series of preparatory steps you must take before installing your system.

System Requirements

The first step in preparing to install or upgrade your AAI system is making sure that you have the necessary infrastructure ready and required components and versions installed.

Installation Steps Using the Install Wizard

Prior to installing AAI you should first decide if you will allow AAI to automatically size your AAI database based on the information you provide during installation, or if you will work with support staff to complete a pre-installation survey that will determine the sizing requirements for the AAI database. In either case, you have to gather information from your scheduler environment.

OS Requirements

You can install AAI on a Windows or UNIX Operating System. VMware environments are supported as long as the OS loaded on the VMware image is one of the Operating Systems supported.

Use the compatibility matrix (compatibility matrix) to find the relevant information on supported versions, setup, or prerequisites. Check all Automic Automation Intelligence components and prerequisites for vendor, version or setup information. For more information, see Compatibility Information.

Sizing the Environment

Determine the appropriate sizing for the AAI environment. Use the following worksheet for this purpose: Sizing Worksheet.

Fill in the following fields:

• Total Number of Jobs in all Scheduler Instances
• Total Number of Scheduler Instances
• Number of Days of History Retention
• Percentage of Job Count Growth per Year (example 10%)

A summary of values will be returned to provide configuration guidance for the following:

• Memory
• CPU Cores
• Disk Space
• Database Sizing

AAI Database Requirements

This is the application database and stores configuration information, user information, business view hierarchies, historical run data, and copies of the job definitions from the scheduler instances.

The DBMS supported are the following:

• SQL Server - 2012 or later
• Oracle - Version 11 or later

Based on the sizing requirements for your AAI database, make sure you set up the AAI database partition and you are ready to run the SQL generated from the AAI installation process. This SQL is then used to create the AAI database.

Java Requirements

Make sure that Java JDK 1.8 + is installed on the AAI application server and configure the JAVA_HOME environment variable accordingly-

Application Server - JBoss

To install your AAI system successfully, you also need to install an application server.

JBoss is an open-source Java application server. The server acts as a web server (port configurable) and hosts the application in the form of an Applet. The app server connects to the various databases on behalf of the client applet and manages all database connections. (http://www.jboss.org).

Other AAI Prerequisites

After making sure you meet the respective system requirements, also make sure you cover the following issues:

1. Keep the hostname, port, database name, user id and password for the AAI database at hand. You will need this information during the installation process.

2. Make sure that an Oracle or SQL Server runs on the host where the AAI database is installed and that you have administrator access to the database.

   Note:

   It is not recommended that the Oracle or SQL Server runs on the same server that runs the integrated solution instance.

3. Determine if you will set up your SNMP host. If yes, you’ll need the SNMP hostname, port, and community.

4. For AutoSys only, make sure you cover the following issues:

   1. Create a read-only ID for the AutoSys database(s) that AAI will use to query AutoSys.

      For Oracle, ensure read-only ID has synonyms set up on the AutoSys database so that non-dbo queries do not require dbo.tablename.

   2. Create a non-clustered, non-unique index on the event_time_gmt column in the event or proc_event table on any AutoSys databases that will be accessed by AAI.

   3. Determine the format of your AutoSys archive files (i.e., MM.DD.YY).

5. For Automic Automation, Control-M, ESP and IWS, make sure that both the integrated workload automation platform and its corresponding connector are set up and running.

Preparing for the Reporting Server Installation

Installing the Reporting Server is not required for SLA management. However, installing it provides you with a host of out-of-the-box customizable reports. Also, when you install it, a default report template zip file is loaded as part of the configuration process thus allowing you to create your own report templates.

Reporting Server System Requirements

Other than those requirements, the Reporting Server requires the following to run:

• An application server: The installation is pre-configured to run with a Tomcat server.

• A database: The installation is pre-configured to run with a PostgreSQL database.

Although these are bundled with the software, they are separate from the AAI database.

You also need to install Google Chrome on the Reporting Server host.

Using a Replicated AAI Database

If you want to use a replicated AAI database for the Reporting Server, make sure to use the same AAI Database Server Configuration and Database Sizing recommendations for the replicated database.

Installation Parameters

Before installing the Reporting Server, make sure the AAI server and database are installed and make sure you have the list of all parameters you require for the installation:

• AAI Server protocol (http or https)

• AAI Server hostname

• AAI Server port

• Tomcat port for use on the Reporting Server

• An internet web browser to run the Report Configuration Wizard

• Database Server hostname, port, and Service name

You must use either SQL Server or Oracle as the database management system for the Reporting Server database.

• Email Server information for report scheduling, only if email authentication is required

  • Email Server name

  • Email Server port

  • Email Server protocol

  • Email username

  • Email password

  • Email username to send reports from

See also:

• Installing AAI on Windows

• Installing AAI on UNIX

• Additional AAI Installation Tasks

• Installing and Uninstalling the Reporting Server on Windows

• Installing and Uninstalling the Reporting Server on Linux