You can install the agent server on a remote Windows file server or on a remote Windows server that mounts one
or more file servers.
Procedure
To install the agent server by using the graphical user
interface:
- Log in as a user with administrator authority.
- Extract all files in the WindowsAgentServer.zip file
on the product DVD, or extract all files in the electronic distribution
image for the Windows Agent.
- Double-click the launchpad.exe file or enter
launchpad.exe in a command window. Click Install
Product and then click the button to launch the installation program.
As an alternative, you can one of the following methods to run the installation program:
- Console installation
To run the installation program in text mode from a console, change to the
Agent directory and enter the following command. The screens are rendered in
text and prompt you for the same information as the graphical
installation:
install.exe -i console
Tip: After you enter the
command, a process runs in the background for a number of seconds before the console installation
program is displayed.
- Silent installation
- To install the product silently, change to the Agent/responseFiles
directory and edit the DistributedFileSystemCrawler.properties template
response file to provide information about your environment. To run the installation program, change
to the Agent directory and specify the name of the file that you edited. For
example:
install.exe -i silent -f
responseFiles/DistributedFileSystemCrawler.properties
If you copy a template file
to another location to edit, specify the fully qualified path for the file when you run the
installation program. If the response file path includes a space, enclose the path in double
quotation marks ("). For example:
install.exe -i silent -f "c:\My
Documents\DistributedFileSystemCrawler.properties"
- Specify installation options:
- Enter or verify the fully qualified host name of this
computer.
Restriction: You cannot
specify an IPv6 address as the host name of the server.
- Enter a user name and password of an account that can
be used to authorize access to the agent server.
When
you configure the Agent for Windows file systems crawler
in the administration console, you must specify this user name and
password. If the user ID does not exist, you can select the check
box to create the account.
To crawl a domain in a secure collection,
the user ID must be an existing domain user that has permission to
access the files to be crawled. To specify a domain user, use the
format username@domain name.
The domain user cannot be created by the agent installation program.
- Click Install to use the default
settings for all other installation options and start installing the
software.
- Optional: If you want to change the default
settings, click Advanced Options instead of
clicking Install.
- Use the following guidelines when you specify advanced
installation options:
- You can change the paths for the installation directory and data
directory.
- The agent server uses three TCP/IP ports for authenticating connections
to the server, transferring data between the file systems and crawler
server, and monitoring the agent server. The default port numbers
are 8397, 8398, and 8399. If those values conflict with other port
assignments in your system, change the port numbers.
- On the summary page, review the options that
you selected and click Install to start installing
the software.
- Restart the computer.
What to do next
After the software is installed, you must set up shared
network directories that the Agent for Windows file systems crawler can access.