You can install Analytics Server after installing Administration Console.
This section includes information about how to install the latest Analytics Server. For information about installing the earlier version, see Installing Analytics Server in the NetIQ Access Manager Appliance 4.4 Installation and Upgrade Guide.
IMPORTANT:Before installing the new Analytics Server, ensure to delete Analytics Server nodes of the earlier version from Administration Console. Ensure to use only three node cluster for Analytics Server as two node cluster is no longer supported.
Installation time: 10 minutes approximately
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What you need to know to install Analytics Server |
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Ensure that the system meets the requirements for installing Analytics Server. For information about the requirements, see System Requirements of Analytics Server.
When installing Access Manager components on multiple machines, ensure that the time and date are synchronized on all machines.
Ensure that Administration Console is running.
Install Analytics Server on a separate machine and ensure that the following ports in Analytics Server are open:
8445
1444
22 (Optional)
1468
9200
9300
If you have custom partitioned your hard disk as follows, ensure that the free disk space mentioned against each partition is available.
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Partition |
Disk Space |
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/opt |
2 GB |
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/var |
3 GB |
Edit the /etc/hosts files on each instance and add an entry to resolve its hostname to its private IP address. For example, 10.10.10.11 kubew1
NOTE:Install the insserv-compat package for SLES installation.
Open a terminal window.
Log in as a root user.
Access the install script.
Ensure that you have downloaded the software.
If you downloaded the tar.gz file, unzip the file by using the following command:
tar -xzvf <filename>
Change to the Analytics_Dashboard directory.
At the command prompt, run the following install script:
./ar_install.sh
Specify the IP address, user ID, and password of the primary Administration Console.
Re-enter the password for verification. Analytics Server installation starts.
If the installation program rejects credentials and IP address, ensure that the required ports are open on both Administration Console and Analytics Server.
Verify the installation. You can check the logs in /tmp/novell_access_manager/install_ar_.
You can configure Analytics Server cluster for high availability. For a cluster, you can install Analytics Server on three servers in a sequential order one after the other, using the tar.gz file.
NOTE:It is highly recommended to take snapshots to avoid data loss. For more information, see Snapshot and Restore.
After you install the second node of Analytics Server, perform the following steps in Administration Console:
Devices > Analytics Servers > [Name of Server] > Health.
Click Refresh.
Perform the same steps after installing the third node. Update one device at a time from top to down and wait for the Elasticsearch database server’s health to turn green and then refresh other servers for the update. The cluster health will be red till the second node is updated.
If the server does not come up, click Restart to bring all the services up and running, and then manually click Refresh for each service.
After all servers’ health turn green, the cluster is ready for use.
NOTE:Analytics Server cluster logs named as_elasticsearch cannot be downloaded from Administration Console if you have not configured a cluster setup. The error message "There were logs that failed to download...Requested resource is unavailable” appears.