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PlatformService and UI Migration / Installation

PlatformService and UI Migration / Installation

Owned by Tharun Kumar K (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Mar 28, 2023
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With Insights v10.0, we are moving away from using Apache Tomcat to serve the application. Going forward, PlatformService will use embedded tomcat and run as a JAR application and UI will be run as Node.js application using ExpressJS. Follow the below steps to Migrate to Insights v10.0.

For fresh installation skip STEP 1 and start from STEP 2.

STEP 1:

Disabling Apache Tomcat:

  1. cd /etc/init.d/

  2. service [Tomcat servicename] stop

  3. rm [Tomcat servicename]

  1. Stop the Apache Tomcat Service

  2. sc delete [Tomcat servicename]

  1. systemctl stop [Tomcat servicename]

  2. systemctl disable [Tomcat servicename]

 

STEP 2:

Installing & Running PlatformService & UI:

UI will now be accessible on port 8081. Follow the below steps to run the PlatformService and UI:

Download and run the insights_UI_Service.sh file from GitHub repository [insights_UI_Service.sh]

Download and run the insights_UI_Service.sh file from GitHub repository [insights_UI_Service.sh]

Download and run the insights_UI_Service.sh file from GitHub repository [insights_UI_Service.sh]

PlatformService:

  1. Inside Insights_Windows/Server2/Configs/ folder create a new folder named Service.

  2. Download the PlatformService.jar file from the GitHub repository into the Service folder. [PlatformService-10.0.jar]

  3. Rename PlatformService-[VERSION].jar to PlatformService.jar.

  4. Download the PlatformServiceSetup.bat file from the GitHub repository [PlatformServiceSetup.bat]

  5. Run the PlatformServiceSetup.bat file to setup UI as a windows service this will create a service named InSightsService.

  6. Start the InSightsService service.

UI:

  1. Visit Nodejs.org/en/download and download and install node.js [14.20.x or 16.13.x or 18.10.x]

  2. Download and extract the contents of PlatformUI4-[VERSION].zip.

  3. Copy the UI folder into the Insights_Windows/Server2/Configs/ folder.

  4. Open a command prompt from the UI folder and run “npm install”.

  5. Download the InsightsUISetup.bat file from the GitHub repository [InsightsUISetup.bat]

  6. Run the “InsightsUISetup.bat” file to setup UI as a windows service.

  7. Start the InsightsUI service.

Starting / Restarting / Stopping PlatformService:

service Insights_Service { start | restart | stop }
service Insights_Service { start | restart | stop }

Starting / Restarting / Stopping UI:

service Insights_UI { start | restart | stop }
service Insights_UI { start | restart | stop }

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