Starting the application

This section describes the actions you need to take to successfully deploy the i2 Explore for iBase application.

NOTE: If you have elected to create the ISTORE database manually, this must be done before running the deploy script. Follow the instructions in Manually creating the ISTORE database below.

The application is deployed using the setup script in the analyze-deployment-tooling directory. You can double-click the setup.exe file directly. If you have a more complex deployment, you can run the script from the command line. Navigate to the analyze-deployment-tooling directory in a terminal and run the following command:

• setup -t deploy

The deploy script will perform the following tasks:

• Download the required prerequisites if they are not already present in the pre-reqs directory.

• Generate i2 Explore configuration from your iBase database.

• Create the ISTORE database in the iBase SQL Server instance.

• Deploy configuration files to the Liberty application server, Solr and Zookeeper.

• Start the Liberty application server, Solr and Zookeeper services.

Manually creating the ISTORE database

If you did not supply a user name and password during the installation process, you need to manually create the ISTORE database in the iBase SQL Server instance before you can run the deploy process. To generate the database scripts required to create the ISTORE database, logins and users:

• Navigate to the analyze-deployment-tooling directory in a terminal.

• Run the following command:

  • setup -t generateDatabaseScripts

You need to run these scripts on your SQL Server instance to create the ISTORE database and users. Note that generateDatabaseScripts also generates scripts to remove the ISTORE database, logins and users; these can be used later if you want to remove the ISTORE database and users.

When manually creating the ISTORE database, it is also necessary to lookup the collation of the iBase database and use the same collation for the ISTORE database.

To do this:

1. Run the following query on the iBase database:

   SELECT collation_name
   FROM sys.databases
   WHERE name = ?

2. Set the Collation property in the following file to the value returned from the query above:

   • <installation_location>/explore-for-ibase/analyze-deployment-tooling/configs/explore-for-ibase/configuration/InfoStoreNamesSQLServer.properties

Deployment Tasks

The following toolkit options and tasks are available to use with the setup script in the deployment tooling.

usage: setup [-t TASK] [-v | --verbose] [-h | --help]

The default task is deploy, which will run if no task is specified.

The following deployment and setup tasks are available

Exploring the deployment

When the installer has completed, the following directory structure will be created in the <installation_location>/explore-for-ibase directory:

explore-for-ibase
├── analyze-deployment-tooling
│   ├── configs
│   │   ├── explore-for-ibase
│   │   │   ├── configuration
│   │   │   │   └── secrets
│   │   │   │       ├── sqlserver
│   │   │   │       │   ├── dba_istore_PASSWORD
│   │   │   │       │   ├── sa_PASSWORD
│   │   │   ├── utils
│   │   │   │   └── variables.conf
|   |── environment-secrets
│   │   │   ├── provided-secrets
│   │   │   │   ├── certificates
│   │   │   │   |   |── externalCA
│   │   │   │   |   |   |── CA.cer
│   │   │   │   |   |── <HOST_FQDN_I2ANALYZE_SERVICE>
│   │   │   │   |   |   ├── server.cer
│   │   │   │   |   |   └── server.key
│   ├── pre-reqs
│   │   ├── jdbc-drivers
│   │   ├── jdk.zip
│   │   ├── solr.tgz
│   │   ├── wlp.zip
│   │   └── zookeeper.tar.gz
│   ├── Setup.exe
├── deploy
│   ├── jdk
│   ├── solr
│   ├── wlp
│   └── zookeeper
├── data
└── logs

Deploy directory

The deploy directory contains the deployed binaries for the i2 Explore for iBase application.

Data directory

The data directory contains temporary data files for the i2 Explore for iBase application.

Logs directory

The logs directory contains the logs for the i2 Explore for iBase application. The logs are generated by the Liberty application server, Solr and Zookeeper services and also the deployment tooling. These can be used by the i2 support team to diagnose issues with the i2 Explore for iBase application.