Table of Contents
This book will walk you through Ambience 2.5.0 installation scenarios, which covers the following contents:
Pre-installation instructions: This helps you get well prepared before installing Ambience on your system, including software and hardware requirements, as well as basic configurations.
Install Standalone Ambience: This illustrates how to install the standalone version of Ambience, and how to configure the eno domain.
Ambience Dream: This describes how to get Ambience Dream working, which concentrates the complete Ambience experience in one zip package.
Set Up ZooKeeper Cluster: This shows how to run a cluster of ZooKeeper nodes instead of standalone mode for high availability systems.
Set Up Foxx Domain for LDAP Integration: This describes how to configure foxx domain if you wish to integrate Ambience via LDAP.
The following software must be installed before getting started:
Operating System: 32-bit or 64-bit Microsoft Windows, Linux, OSX and more.
For Server and Designer: Oracle Java Platform Standard Edition 7. Either the Java Runtime Edition (JRE) or Java Development Kit (JDK) may be used.
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For Server and Designer: These can be installed on any 32-bit or 64-bit computing system, which is able to run Oracle Java Platform Standard Edition 7.
RAM: The amount of RAM required depends on expected usage. A minimum RAM of 4GB is recommended for lightweight use.
Free disk space: Prepare at least 2GB of free space on the hard disk drive.
To get well prepared for an installation, manually update the IP address in /etc/hosts, or in \windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts. Otherwise, you might receive an error message during installation, saying “Unable to connect to ZooKeeper domain eno”. Incorrect IP address in /etc/hosts, or in \windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts, might force you to abort the current process, uninstall Ambience and start all over again.