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Server Administration and Installation

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Server Administration and Installation..................................................................4

Server System Requirements.................................................................................................4

DPU Requirements....................................................................................................................................4 File Server Unit Requirements...................................................................................................................6 Sensor Requirements................................................................................................................................6 Report Server Requirements.....................................................................................................................8 Network Management................................................................................................................................8 Data Availability..........................................................................................................................................8 DPU and FSU Network Issues...................................................................................................................8

Installing Data Workbench Servers.........................................................................................9

About Insight Server License Units............................................................................................................9 Installation Procedures for an Insight Server DPU.....................................................................................9 Installation Procedures for an Insight Server FSU...................................................................................29 Next Steps................................................................................................................................................30 Insight Server Clusters.............................................................................................................................30

Administering Data Workbench Server.................................................................................40

Re-validating the Digital Certificate..........................................................................................................40 Confirming that the Service Is Running...................................................................................................41 Configuring Access Control......................................................................................................................41 Monitoring Disk Space.............................................................................................................................49 Monitoring Memory Usage.......................................................................................................................52 Configuring Administrative Alerts.............................................................................................................53 Monitoring Administrative Events.............................................................................................................54 Monitoring Audit Logs...............................................................................................................................55 Configuring Communications...................................................................................................................56 Configuring DPU.cfg.................................................................................................................................56 Restarting the Service..............................................................................................................................57

Transform..............................................................................................................................57

Configuring Transform..............................................................................................................................57 Next Steps................................................................................................................................................59

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Insight Server Replication Service........................................................................................59

Installing the Replication Service.............................................................................................................59 Configuring the Replication Service.........................................................................................................59 Next Steps................................................................................................................................................62

Repeater Functionality..........................................................................................................62

Configuring Repeater Functionality..........................................................................................................62 Administering Repeater............................................................................................................................65

General Systems Administration...........................................................................................65

Confirming Your Systems Are Healthy......................................................................................................66 Monitoring Events for Errors.....................................................................................................................66 Monitoring Ports and Applications............................................................................................................66

Upgrading and Uninstalling Adobe Software.........................................................................67

Upgrading Insight Server..........................................................................................................................67 Uninstalling Your Software........................................................................................................................80

Configuration Settings Reference.........................................................................................81

Insight Server Directory Structure............................................................................................................81 Administrative Alerts Configuration Settings............................................................................................82 Communications Configuration Settings..................................................................................................84 DPU Performance Settings......................................................................................................................86

Time Zone Codes..................................................................................................................87

Contact and Legal Information.............................................................................89

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Server Administration and Installation

The Server Installation and Administration Guide is written for administrators responsible for installing and administering Insight servers. This guide provides you with specific guidelines and instructions for installing Adobe server products and services such as Insight Server, Insight Server clusters, Transform, and more.

Server System Requirements

Identify minimum requirements and recommendations for Data Workbench server components before planning and implementing your system.

DPU Requirements

The server Data Processing Unit (DPU) is the main data processing component of Data Workbench. It listens for network connections from data workbench, reads raw source data from the File Server Unit (FSU) and uses substantial computational and storage resources.

Licensed Capacity Please refer to the Services Description in the Adobe Data Workbench (Insight) Service Agreement for license capacity information.

Note: For MS System Center Endpoint Protection in Windows 2012 Servers, these executables need to be added to the Excluded Processes: ? InsightServer64.exe ? ReportServer.exe ? ExportIntegration.exe

DPU System Recommendations and Requirements

Adobe provides recommendations regarding a Data Workbench design that meets your business needs. However, the following guidelines are useful when selecting the operating system (OS) and hardware, because the optimized nature of the DPU software places specific requirements on the OS/hardware platform.

If a single dataset is limited by the capacity or speed of a single DPU, you can cluster them. For example, suppose you have three licensed copies of the DPU software that are used together to more quickly run a larger dataset. As the data is divided between the machines evenly, the licensed capacity of the dataset is multiplied by three. In addition, the processing speed per row becomes three times faster than a single DPU.

To achieve the best performance from your DPU investment, Adobe recommends the following high-performance components described in the following table:

Server DPU Requirements

Operating System CPU

Required Microsoft Windows Server 2008 x64 See recommendations.

Recommended

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 x64 Latest-generation 4-core+ processors from Intel or AMD are recommended. For

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RAM Working Data Storage

System Data Storage Clustering Hardware Clustering Network Performance

Required 8 GB

Recommended optimal performance, 8-cores; for a trade-off between speed and cost, 4-cores are recommended.

12 GB

1TB+ of total logical temp storage.

For temporary storage Adobe

Low latency access to the disk sub-system recommends either: ? (4 to 8) * (750GB or higher) SATA HDDs

(3.5" spindle.)

? (6 to 10) * (300GB or higher) SATA

HDDs (2.5" spindle.)

These should be configured in a JBOD array. Alternatively, when gross disk capacity exceeds 2TB, an array of 2-disk RAID1 volumes can be used. For example, configure six disks as a 3*(2*750GB RAID 1 pair.)

Additionally, Adobe requires high-availability storage of a modest size (20GB) for the OS, DPU software, and other system software.

See recommendations.

Use a homogenous set of servers. In a DPU cluster, the slowest server reduces the performance of the whole dataset.

A switched-gigabit Ethernet connection or greater.

Alternative Disk Subsystems

When considering alternative disk subsystems for temp storage, consider the following factors and guidelines:

? The DPU is unusually demanding of a high performance disk system, so setting up an inadequate disk subsystem can cause performance bottlenecks.

? The DPU software does its own performance-oriented data striping across a set of JBOD disks. Do not use RAID to increase speed.

? Adobe recommends that the DPU has 400+ MB/s aggregate sustained bandwidth to the disks. ? Average read sizes are very high (2MB+). For this reason 15K or 10K SAS disks often perform a little better (or

worse) than SATA disks at a significant cost and capacity penalty. ? Avoid using a SAN architecture. Experience shows that the cost to get a SAN to perform at the levels required is

usually extreme. ? The local disk subsystem is used as scratch space--no data is permanently lost from a HDD failure, so consider

avoiding costly, slower, high-availability systems.

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