Employee Workspace Installation Manual

Objective

This document describes all the installation process for SmartESS version 1.0 starting from scratch. This document covers all aspect of its installation including all various software needed and how to deploy the application in your machine.

About This Documentation

This preface discusses:

• Understanding This Documentation
• Audience
• Comments and Suggestions

Understanding This Documentation

This documentation is designed to direct you through a basic SmartESS version 1.0 installation. It is not a substitute for the database administration documentation provided by your relational database management system (RDBMS) vendor, the network administration documentation provided by your network vendor.

Audience

This documentation is written for the individuals responsible for installing and administering the SmartESS environment. This documentation assumes that you have a basic understanding of the SmartESS system.

One of the most important components in the installation and maintenance of your SmartESS system is your on-site expertise.

You should be familiar with your operating environment and RDBMS and have the necessary skills to support that environment.

Comments and Suggestions

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System Requirements

The system requirements for SmartESS application are:

• Processor: Intel® Xeon® CPU E5430 @ 2.66GHz (2 processors)
• Operating System:
  • Windows 2012 Server 64bit
  • Windows 2008 server R2 64bit
  • Windows 7 64bit
• Installed Memory (RAM): 12GB
• System Type: 64-bit Operating System

Software Installation Prerequisites

Following softwares must be installed before installing SmartESS applications:

.NET Framework 4.0

The Microsoft .NET Framework 4 re-distributable package installs the .NET Framework run time and associated files that are required to run and develop applications to target the .NET Framework 4.

File Name: dotNetFx40_Full_x86_x64.exe

Following link is available for installation guide of .NET Framework 4.0

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SAP Crystal Reports Runtime Engine For .NET Framework 4 (32-bit)

SAP Crystal Reports runtime engine for .NET Framework 4 32-bit is a software program developed by SAP.

File Name: CRRuntime_32bit_13_0.msi

Following link is available to download SAP Crystal Reports Runtime Engine For .NET Framework 4 (32-bit)

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Direct download Link: [3]

Oracle Database 11g 64 bit release 2 (11.2.0.1.0)

Oracle Database (commonly referred to as Oracle RDBMS or simply as Oracle) is an object-relational database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation.

Oracle 12c Release 2 (12.1.0.1.2) is also compatible with SmartESS.

Following link is available to download and for installation guide of Oracle Database 11g 64 bit release 2 (11.2.0.1.0)

Make sure that Character set should be “Unicode Standard UTF8 AL32UTF8” while installation of Oracle Database.

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Installation Guide: [5]

Oracle Data Provider for .NET for 12c Release 2 (12.1.0.1.2)

Oracle Data Provider for .NET allows Oracle database to connect from .NET and makes using Oracle from .NET more flexible, faster, and more stable and take advantage of advanced Oracle database functionality.

Following link is available to download and for installation guide of Oracle Data Provider for .NET for Oracle 12c Release 2 (12.1.0.1.2).

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Internet Information Services (IIS)

Internet Information Services (IIS) formerly called Internet Information Server is a web server application and set of feature extension modules created by Microsoft for use with Microsoft Windows. You don’t need to download anything for IIS because this feature is available in Microsoft windows server 2008 R2. You just need to Click Start -> All Programs -> Administrative Tools -> Server Manager -> Add Roles and Features and complete the installation. Following link is available for installation guide of Internet Information Services (IIS).

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Post Installation Settings of Internet Information Services (IIS)

Some of the common settings are required after installing Internet Information Services (IIS).

• Change .net framework version to 4.0 in IIS. Click on Application pool for SmartESS like DefaultAppPool and go to Basic Settings and change .net framework version to v4.0 and Managed pipeline mode to Integrated.

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• In the application pool section, Click on Application pool for SmartESS like DefaultAppPool and go to Advance Settings and change .net framework version to v4.0 and change Enable 32-bit application property to true.

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Recommended Browsers

Recommended Browsers for SmartESS application are “Google Chrome” or “Mozilla Firefox”. Following links are available to download “Google Chrome” or “Mozilla Firefox” respectively.

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