MIDAS Inventory. Version 3.1. Installation Guide. BLUE ELEPHANT SYSTEMS GmbH

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1 MIDAS Inventory Version 3.1 Installation Guide BLUE ELEPHANT SYSTEMS GmbH

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3 Document and Printing History New editions are complete revisions of the manual. The printing dates for each edition are listed below. Version Date Remarks 1.0 January 2010 Initial Version 1.2 July 2010 Changes for Release 1.2 integrated 2.0 October 2010 Changes for Release 2.0 integrated 2.5 December 2011 Changes for Release 2.5 integrated 3.0 September 2013 Changes for Release 3.0 integrated 3.1 March 2014 Changes for Release 3.1 integrated Conventions Font Boldface CAPITALIZATION Computer font Italics Usage Words in boldface type represent programs and commands. Capitalized words represent company or product names. Words in computer font represent file or path names, command syntax statements, prompts or messages that appear on your screen or text you should type on your workstation or terminal. Words in italics represent variables in syntax statements or words that are emphasized in the text or reference user interface elements. {} Represents required elements in a syntax statement. When several elements are separated by the ' ' symbol you must select one of the elements. [] Represents optional elements in a syntax statement

4 Contents 1 Installation Prerequisites Hardware Prerequisites Software Prerequisites Update And Installation Upgrade From A Previous Version Server installation Licensing Requesting A License Installing The License Open Source

5 1 Installation This chapter explains MIDAS Inventory's installation prerequisites and program. 1.1 Prerequisites MIDAS Inventory requires certain hardware attributes and operating system versions Hardware Prerequisites The computer to run MIDAS Inventory should fulfill the hardware requirements below. Device Count Processor Memory Disk Space > 1.6 GHz > 2 GB 1 GB > 2 GHz > 4 GB 4 GB > > 2 GHz > 4 GB 10 GB Note: MIDAS Inventory runs on slower hardware with less memory, but will become significantly slower (especially the reporting) Software Prerequisites MIDAS Inventory can run on the following operating systems (both 32 and 64 bit): Windows XP, Windows Vista 1, Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 Windows Server 2003 (R2), Windows Server 2008 (R2) or Windows Server 2012 (R2) Running MIDAS Inventory on a client operating system, such as Windows XP or Windows Vista (before SP2) causes incomplete discovery results and a slow discovery performance! There are patches on the Internet that extend the connection limit (search for 'XP connection limit' or 'Vista connection limit'). MIDAS Inventory can also run on Windows XP and Windows Vista if the 1 Note: The connection limit that has been introduced with Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 is intended to slow down spreading of viruses over the network

6 above patch is installed. However keep in mind that blue elephant systems is not responsible for any damage resulting from installing the connection limit patch! Make sure the local firewall is disabled on the MIDAS Inventory computer. Otherwise the discovery might be affected. 1.2 Update And Installation MIDAS Inventory installs an embedded database server (Postgres version see in addition to its server and client applications. Because of that there is no need to install and maintain a dedicated database server. Copy 'MIDAS Inventory 3.2.msi' to a local directory. Double click 'MIDAS Inventory 3.2.msi' file to start the installation. The installation package contains the server and client applications. The installation wizard allows these install options: Client only Server and client Upgrade From A Previous Version Skip this chapter when installing MIDAS Inventory from scratch. Follow the steps below to upgrade from a previously installed version. 1. Open the MIDAS Inventory user interface and choose from the menu Administration» Stop Application. 2. Archive your database (including passwords) with Administration» Database» Archive. 3. When installing a new build of the same product version, then archive the license.txt file from your installation directory. The license file remains valid when the MIDAS Inventory version remains the same. 4. Uninstall the current installation by uninstalling add-ons first and then the MIDAS Inventory core installation. 5. Reboot the server. 6. Follow the steps from chapter to install new MIDAS Inventory version. 7. Copy the license.txt file from step 3. to the installation directory, when the MIDAS Inventory did not change. Otherwise request a new license file as described in chapter Import the database by stopping the application via Administration» Stop Application and restore the archived database with Administration» Database» Restore

7 The current license file stays valid when installing a new MIDAS Inventory build with the same version number! Installing a new MIDAS Inventory version requires a new license file! Server Installation When installing the server, MIDAS Inventory's installation wizard will prompt for the embedded database server configuration. Enter the database server port, the database admin password, and the database read-only password in the database configuration dialog. Finally, choose whether you would like to access the database remotely. 2 The installation program creates a new database named 'inventory', a database admin user named 'postgres' and a database read-only user 'postgresro'. 2 Local databases are more secure than remotely accessible databases

8 2 Licensing When installing MIDAS Inventory the installation program creates an evaluation license, which allows discovery of up to 25 devices. MIDAS Inventory licenses are locked to hardware and operating system attributes of the computer where MIDAS Inventory is installed. 2.1 Requesting A License After purchasing a license, 1. Open the License Info... dialog from MIDAS Inventory's Help menu to create a license request file. Fig: Open the license dialog 2. On the License Information dialog-box, click Request License to create a license request file. 3. Choose a directory to save the license request file using the Save License Request File dialog-box and click Save. 4. Finally submit the license request file on the blue elephant systems homepage

9 2.2 Installing The License When you have submitted the license request file on blue elephant systems's homepage, blue elephant systems will validate your license request, create a license file called 'license.txt' and return it to you. Follow the instructions below to install your license: 1. Copy the 'license.txt' file into MIDAS Inventory's installation directory. 2. Open the Windows Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services and restart the 'MIDAS Inventory server' service. 3. Check the license status from the Help» License Info menu. Fig: A valid permanent license Restart the 'MIDAS Inventory server' service from the Windows Control Panel» Administrative Tools to activate the new license file. Check the license status from the Help» License menu

10 3 Open Source This software includes software developed by various open-source projects and organizations as listed below. The corresponding files and components are copyright to the corresponding organization or vendor and all rights reserved. The software files and components distributed under the open-source licenses are distributed on an "AS IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the license of the corresponding project for specific rights and limitations under the license. Depending on the license, any product derived from the products may not be called with the name of the project nor may the name of the project appear in their name, without prior written permission. For written permission, please contact the corresponding project owner by visiting the corresponding project home page as listed below. All license files can be found in the installation directory 'Licenses'. This product includes software developed by the Apache Foundation ( These are 'Axis', 'Commons Collections', 'Commons Net', 'CXF', 'log4j', and 'POI'. This product includes the 'SBLIM' WBEM implementation. This product includes icons from 'FAMFAMFAM' icon gallery 'SILK' ( This product includes Kai Toedter's 'Jcalendar' ( This product includes the JUNG layout library ( This product includes the COLT numeric library ( This product uses the Postgres database ( This product uses SNMP4J ( This product uses the trilead SSH library ( This product uses the drools rule engine ( This product uses the janino compiler ( This product uses Jyhton ( The product calls the dmidecode binary ( Find the source code in the 'sources' directory. This product uses icons from 'Crystal Clear' ( This product uses the 'PUTTY' ssh client