IDOL 24.4
IDOL Getting Started Guide

# IDOL Installation and Setup

After you have decided on an IDOL architecture, you must decide on how to set up and distribute your system across multiple machines.

For a simple installation, to explore IDOL features or for testing, you can use a single machine for all components. However, in a production system, you usually separate some of the components on to separate disks or hardware.

In systems where you have large processing requirements for certain tasks, you can separate the IDOL components onto their own servers. This separation allows you to isolate and scale resources independently for different functions, according to their individual requirements. You can also place the components on their own hardware or virtual machine.

For more information about sizing and scaling your IDOL system, refer to IDOL Expert.

## Component ZIP Packages

IDOL components can be installed from ZIP packages.

Each component ZIP package provides a configuration file, and the required modules for the component. It also includes a component-specific Help file, which contains the actions and configuration parameters relevant to that component, and for most components also contains the Administration Guide.

To install the component, you extract the ZIP package to the host where you want to run the component. You must update the `[License]` section of the configuration file to include appropriate license information. If you have more than one version of a component running on the same host, you might also need to update the port information to ensure that each component uses a different port.

After you install each of the components, you must modify the configuration files to ensure that the components can contact any other necessary components. For example, for IDOL Text components you must configure:

- the IDOL Category component with the details of the data index (IDOL Content component), and the category index (IDOL Agentstore component).
- the IDOL Community component with the details of the agent index (IDOL Agentstore component).
- the IDOL View component with the details of an IDOL Content component that it can use for highlighting.

For full details about installing IDOL components from zip packages, see Install IDOL.

## IDOL Containers

OpenText provides container images for IDOL components for Docker and Kubernetes that allow you to create an IDOL environment automatically from containers.

For more information about installing IDOL using containers, and the available containers and options, see Install IDOL using Containers.

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Version 24.4 | Last updated September 2024

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Product: IDOL 24.4

Topic Title: IDOL Installation and Setup