I’m not sure I understand.

Our current Spectrum 9.1 implementation uses two servers.
One for the SpectroServer, One for OneClick, BOXI, and Report Manager.

When I read the release notes, I saw that having a BOXI server separate from 
the One Click/Report Manager server.

Are you saying that (for simplification), BOXI should be installed on a 
separate server from OneClick?  Or are you talking about CABI?

Thanks,

Phillip L Stallcup, CCNA
IT Network Services
INTEGRIS Health
[email protected]
(405) 951-2088

From: David Game [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 8:36
To: spectrum
Subject: RE: [spectrum] Spectrum 9.2 and CABI 3.0 installation

When I beta tested 9.2 and BOXI one thing I flagged up was unless you kept 
everything exactly as defaults there would be loads of people having issues 
with BOXI installs.  Looks like I was right!

The recommended method of installing it is to put BOXI on a different server to 
the Spectrum installation otherwise you end up with 2 Tomcats and 2 MYSQL 
databases.

Neither installer is aware of the other so they both try to install MYSQL on 
the same port and if you don’t change the BOXI SQL port in the installer it’ll 
fail.  Also it seems to take ages to start all the processes up – this is 
normal. If you crash out during that part of the install, you’ll have to follow 
the document from CA to totally remove all traces of BOXI as the uninstaller 
doesn’t work properly. There’s a bunch of registry entries and files that will 
need to be removed otherwise when you go to start the install again it’ll think 
BOXI is already installed and won’t let you continue.

What I did in the end to make BOXI and SP9.2  work on the same machine involved 
a rather complicated bit of hacking.


1)      Install Spectrum 9.2

2)      Install something like Navicat that can manage MYSQL databases with a 
GUI (or you could get clever with a command line)

3)      In the Spectrum 9.2 MYSQL install, using Navicat create the two 
databases required by BOXI manually.

4)      Install BOXI, making sure you “use existing database server” and point 
it at the Spectrum MYSQL port

However the BOXI install doesn’t create the database tables properly unless you 
use the default settings to install another MYSQL service.  There’s a utility 
somewhere in the BOXI file structure that allows you to delete and recreate the 
BOXI services. When you do that it’ll recreate the databases properly.  I had 
to run that create the database tables in the Spectrum MYSQL instance.  Once 
BOXI is installed and there’s stuff in the database, reboot the server.

Then, and only then, could I run BOXI integration into Spectrum and get report 
manager to work on the same box without having 2 MYSQL instances.

If you’ve got a meaty enough box for 2 MYSQL processes, when the BOXI install 
asks you for the port number, don’t take the default, pick another one and 
you’re less likely to get install failures.

Another gotcha I found when testing is that the Tomcat that gets installed with 
BOXI has a bug that meant the CPU was getting hammered at 100% utilization 
every 20 seconds or so. It came in 3 bursts, 2 short 1 long.  I tracked that 
down to an issue with the way Tomcat processes the Java on initial process 
start.  The only way round that was to stop/start the BOXI Tomcat service.   
Should the server get rebooted, the CPU issue comes back and you’ll have to 
manually stop/start BOXI Tomcat again.

After feeding all this back to CA, I was told that BOXI and Spectrum shouldn’t 
be run on the same server if at all possible.  Also be mindful that any hacks 
or tweaks you may make to get it working may mean CA won’t support it as it’s a 
non-standard install.


From: Stephen Warne [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 27 May 2010 10:42
To: spectrum
Subject: RE: [spectrum] Spectrum 9.2 and CABI 3.0 installation

Hi Ivana

I had the same question going around my head. I logged a call with CA and their 
advice was to install an additional Tomcat server – don’t forget to use 
different ports.

Having done that I am having trouble with the CABI/BOXI integration. Has anyone 
successfully done this?

Regards
Stephen.

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 27 May 2010 09:52
To: spectrum
Subject: [spectrum] Spectrum 9.2 and CABI 3.0 installation

Hi list,

Any of you already installed BOXI 3.0? I've installed it on win2003 machine 
with SS and OC and had some problems with tomcat.
My question is during installation, what option (a or b) to choose at this 
point:


To use a Java web application server, select Java Web Application Server and 
choose one of the following options:

         a) Install Tomcat application server and deploy to it. This 
automatically installs and configures Tomcat.

        b) Automatically deploy to a preinstalled Web Application Server.


Since I already have tomcat from OC I choosed option b, but I'm not sure I hit 
the right option, cause BOXI 3.0 now should have their own tomcat server?



Thank you in advance,

Srdačan pozdrav / Kind regards,
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