UnifiedViews Installation Guide (Linux)

Abstract

This section provides detailed instructions on how to install UnifiedViews on Linux.

. Prerequisites

These instructions assume that you will install UnifiedViews while:

You have downloaded the UnifiedViews installer (UnifiedViews.run) from our download area.
The target system is running on a 64 bit Linux server and meets the UnifiedViews System Requirements, in particular it has OpenJDK 11 installed.
You have defined a user (for example 'poolparty') on the server assigned to a respective group (for example 'poolparty') that should be used to run the Tomcat server. The user has to be able to execute the sudo command. Refer to the respective Linux distribution's documentation for the particulars of commands and permission settings.
UnifiedViews' Tomcat will be running as localhost using port 8081.

Installation Procedure

You can install UnifiedViews as a standalone application.

This will install UnifiedViews 9.0.2 on your computer.
OK [o, Enter], Cancel [c]
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Choose the appropriate option:
Install UnifiedViews [1, Enter],
Upgrade an existing UnifiedViews installation [2],
Cancel installation [c]
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Where should UnifiedViews be installed
[/opt/unifiedviews]
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Default UnifiedViews user:
[poolparty]
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Default UnifiedViews group:
[poolparty]
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Please review:
 
 
SETTING                  VALUE
Installation directory   /opt/unifiedviews, Access: OK
UnifiedViews user:group  poolparty:poolparty
 
 
Proceed installation?
OK [o, Enter], Cancel [c]
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Setup completed.

STEP 1: Run the Installer UnifiedViews.run from a Terminal Window

This will open a dialogue in the terminal. Press Enter to start the process.

STEP 2: Start Installation Mode

In the next step, choose to do a new installation by entering 1 and pressing Enter.

STEP 3: Check and Adjust the UnifiedViews Application Directory

In this step you can define the path for your PoolParty Directory Structure Linux.

Enter the path you want to use or press Enter to use the default one.

STEP 4: Define User and Group

In this step, define the user that will be used for Controlling PoolParty (Linux) (default: poolparty).

Enter the user you want to use or press Enter to use the default user.

In addition, you can define the group that will be used running it (default: poolparty).

Enter the name of the user group you want to use or press Enter to use the default group. The group you enter here will be created if it doesn't exist.

STEP 5: Finalize the Installation

You will be presented with an overview of the settings you made. You can then finalize the installation process by pressing Enter.

STEP 6: Start UnifiedViews

Open a console and change to root:

sudo -i

Start UnifiedViews. It is important to first start the frontend and then start the backend as follows:

/opt/unifiedviews/bin/unifiedviews-frontend start
/opt/unifiedviews/bin/unifiedviews start

STEP 7: Change memory allocation settings

If you need to specifically change memory allocation settings related to how UnifiedViews run, this can be done in the unifiedviews.conf file. Similar to what you find in the instructions for The poolparty.conf File (Linux)

Post-Installation task: Access UnifiedViews

Open a browser and access your UnifiedViews installation using a URL like this: http://your-server/unifiedviews/

You can log in with the user 'admin' and password 'unifiedviews'.

Note

We strongly recommend changing the password for the 'admin' user after the installation.

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