Advanced Adding Servers

This section includes the following topics:

• Configuring a Listener to listen to a different port
• Configuring a Precise Listener to use communication relay
• Configuring a Precise agent to use a specific user account (Windows)
• Configuring multiple Listeners on the same server (Windows)
• Securing communication key transfer to a new server
• Binding a Precise Listener to a specific server address
• Adding a Windows server using manual mode
• Adding a UNIX server using manual mode
• Enabling auto deployment

Configuring a Listener to listen to a different port

To configure a Listener agent to listen to a different port

1. Click Advanced. The “Add Server Advanced” dialog box opens.
2. Enter a different port number in the Port number field (Default Port Number: 20702).

3. Click OK.

   You can specify a Listener port only during the server installation. To change a port of an already installed Listener, see the Precise CLI Utilities Reference Guide.

Configuring a Precise Listener to use communication relay

By default Precise initiates communications from the Precise FocalPoint to the server, and from the server to the Precise FocalPoint. In case you need to restrict communication to use only "Precise FocalPoint to the server" direction, you can configure the listener to use communication relay.

To configure the Precise listener to use communication relay

1. Click Advanced. The “Add Server Advanced” dialog box opens.
2. Check the box for “This server should use communication relay”.

3. Click OK.

   You can specify relay settings only during the server installation. To change a relay setting of a previously installed listener, see the CLI documentation.

Configuring a Precise agent to use a specific user account (Windows)

On a Windows server, by default the Precise agents are using the local system user account. You can configure a Precise agent to use a specific user account. This can be set only when installing the server. For more information, see About secured Precise systems on page 215.

To configure a Precise agent to use a specific user account

1. Click Advanced. The “Add Server Advanced” dialog box opens.
2. Mark the “Use different Windows Service credentials than the default LocalSystem account” box.
3. Enter a user name with administrator privileges. If you work with the MS SQL Server, the Windows user should have a defined set of privileges.
4. Enter the user password.
5. Enter the domain or machine name in or on which the user account was created.
6. Click OK.

Configuring multiple Listeners on the same server (Windows)

To configure multiple listeners on the same server

1. Click Advanced. The “Add Server Advanced” dialog box opens.
2. Check the box for “Multiple Listeners”.
3. Enter a Unique ID. The unique name is added as a suffix to the names of all Precise services, so that you can install several Precise Listeners.
4. Click OK.

Securing communication key transfer to a new server

To secure communication key transfer to a new server

1. Click Advanced. The “Add Server Advanced” dialog box opens.
2. Check the box for “Secured server installation”.
3. Click OK, and proceed with the server installation.

Binding a Precise Listener to a specific server address

By default, the Precise Listener is bound to all addresses for the specified port. To bind a specific server address, specify this address in the server name field and configure the Precise Listener to bind to this address.

To bind the Precise Listener to a specific address

1. Click Advanced. The "Add Server Advanced" dialog box opens.
2. Mark the "Bind the Precise Listener to the specified server address" check box.
3. Click OK.

Adding a Windows server using manual mode

To add a Windows server using manual mode

1. Select “Manual Installation” and click Next.
2. In the Add Server dialog box, perform the following steps (as they appear in the dialog box):

   1. Specify a password to encrypt your configuration (you will have to use this password on the installed server).

      This step only appears if the “Secured server installation” check box in the ‘Advanced’ screen in marked. For more information, see Securing communication key transfer to a new server on page 48.

   2. Specify a local directory to temporarily save the installation and configuration files, and click Save Files.
   3. Log in to the Windows server as the user who will own the Precise installation.
   4. Copy the Precise Listener agent installation and configuration files – psin_ba_WIN.exe and setup.xml – to the Precise installation directory and verify that is has execution privileges.
   5. Double-click the psin_ba_WIN.exe file to run the Precise Listener installation file on the Window server.

   6. Run the following command from the <Precise_root> directory on the Windows server:
      infra\bin\psin_infra.exe -manual-extricate-crypt <password>

      Replace <password> with the password specified in step a.

3. Click Next.

Adding a UNIX server using manual mode

 

To add a UNIX server using manual mode

1. Select “Manual Installation” and click Next.
2. Specify the UNIX server type (referred to as the UNIX flavor). Precise Framework Installer has a different Precise Listener agent installation file for each supported UNIX server type. To copy the appropriate file, you must first select the UNIX flavor type.
3. In the New Server (UNIX without Telnet) dialog box, specify an installation folder on the local PC. This folder is required only to copy the installation file from the Precise download or the DVD to the local machine.
4. In the New Server (UNIX without Telnet) dialog box, click Save File to copy the Precise Listener agent installation file and listener ports file to the local folder that you specified in Step 3.
5. Copy the Precise Listener agent installation file to the server where you want to install the Precise Listener agent. Verify that you have previously defined a Precise UNIX user to be the owner of the Precise installation folder. It is recommended to create a special folder for Precise use and transfer the file to that folder.
   The folder to which you copy the installation file in this step is the folder that Precise will use for all product installations on this server.
6. Click Next.
7. On the server, verify that the psin_ba_UNIX-FLAVOR has executable permissions and run the psin_ba_unix-flavor installation file. Once the installation file script is executed, the Precise Listener agent on the server is started.
8. If secured server installation is checked, run the following command from the Precise <precise_root> folder:
   ./infra/bin/psin_infra -manual-extricate-crypt <password>
   The <password> should be replaced with the key you supplied in the Advanced Settings dialog box parameters.
9. On the installer GUI, click Listener agent running. Precise Installer is now trying to communicate with the Precise Listener agent on the target server.
10. Click Next.

Enabling auto deployment

To enable auto deployment for Virtual Machines, see the Auto Deployment section the the Precise CLI Utility Reference Guide.

 

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