Installing the server components

To install the 64-bit version of Meridian Enterprise server components, select the appropriate option from the distribution disc menu or Start the appropriate setup file described in Choosing an installation file. To install the components in silent mode, see Installing the server components silently.

If you started the installation as described in Starting Meridian installation. continue server installation:

1. On the Select Components page, click the Server or Customized Setup button. The Choose Destination Location page appears.
2. Specify the destination for program files. Usually the default folder is adequate. If you want to place most of Meridian’s files on a non-system partition, click Browse and type the desired path or select an existing folder. Click Next to continue. The Select Components page appears.
3. Select the server components you want to install from the Server branch of the component tree and click Next.

The minimum configuration for a functional Meridian application server is the EDM Server and License Server options. If you want to run the License Server service on a different computer than the EDM Server service, do not choose the License Server option at this time. Run the setup program on the other computer and choose only the License Server option. See Running BlueCielo License Server on a different computer for additional configuration that may be necessary.

Select the Microsoft SQL Server Database Driver or Oracle Database Driver option if you will be using either of those systems regardless of the server where the database management system will be located. The correct driver is required on the Meridian server in any case.

Note    The Oracle client components must be installed on the Meridian application server and the server rebooted before installing Meridian in order for the Oracle Database Driver engine to appear as an option when creating new vaults in the Meridian Enterprise Administrator. A Minimal installation of Oracle on the Oracle server is sufficient to create and maintain Meridian vaults. On the computer running the EDM Server, an Oracle Instant Client Basic installation is needed. Meridian and the Oracle Instant Client Basic components can be installed in any order. On 32-bit computers, install the 32-bit Oracle client; on 64-bit computers, install the 64-bit client. After a correct installation on the computer running the EDM Server, the Oracle Listener should be able to connect with the Oracle database. You can verify that by using the command tnsping <OracleInstanceName> at the command prompt.

Note    The Oracle database driver is only a driver; it does not install the Oracle database management system software. You must have an existing Oracle installation and licenses on this or another server, and have the Oracle Instant Client Basic installed and functional on the Meridian application server.

Note    The SQL Server database driver is only a driver; it does not install the SQL Server database management system software. You must have an existing SQL Server installation and licenses on this or a separate server. If a separate SQL Server computer will be used, you must install the SQL Server Workstation components option on the Meridian server. You must also enable remote connections to SQL Server on the separate server with either the SQL Server Surface Area Configuration program or the Connections options of SQL Server.

If the Meridian application server will also host Web Access, choose the Web Access option. Internet Information Services must already be installed or installation of this component will fail. The minimum IIS components that must be installed for proper operation of Web Access are listed in Recommended server specifications.

Note    If the computer is running a 64-bit version of Windows and 32-bit Web Access components are installed, set the registry keys described in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\InetStp\Components. In this configuration, the Meridian website must run in a 32-bit application pool. For more information on how to create a 32-bit application pool, refer to Running 32-bit Applications on 64-bit Windows (IIS 6.0) in Microsoft TechNet.

You should choose the Task Server option if you plan to implement email notification (see the BlueCielo Meridian Enterprise Configuration Guide) or any other server task-based processes, such as the Meridian Publisher. For more information about Task Server, see BlueCielo Task Server Administrator’s Guide.

We recommend that you also install the Meridian client components on the Meridian application server so that you can test functionality on the server, if needed. Choose only the application links that correspond to applications that are already installed on the computer.

We recommend that you install all of the Administrator components.

4. Complete the installation as described in Finishing up installation.