Installing in a production environment

This section describes the main steps to install StreamServe components in a production environment. For descriptions of these components, see StreamServe components.

Using a central enterprise repository

When you run StreamServe software in a production environment, you create one central StreamServe Enterprise Repository. You then connect Framework and StreamServer, and Control Center to the central enterprise repository.

For performance and scalability reasons, you may want to install and run Framework and StreamServer on more than one computer. In this scenario, you must connect all the installations to the central enterprise repository.

If you want use Control Center to deploy the StreamStudio web application files, you must install Framework and StreamServer on the same computer as StreamStudio and then connect the computer to the central enterprise repository.

Figure 4

StreamServer and Control Center using a central enterprise repository

Steps

In a production environment, the order of the installation steps can differ to those described in this section depending on the specific requirements of your StreamServe solution, the StreamServe components you will run, and the hardware used.

When making a typical installation in a production environment, you usually start by installing Framework and StreamServer on the computers you want to use to run StreamServer applications. You then install Control Center on the computer that you will use to administer your environment. If required, you then install StreamStudio.

After the installation, you open Control Center, connect to the management gateway on a computer with a Framework and StreamServer installation, and create the central enterprise repository. If you have installed Framework and StreamServer on several computers, you must connect all the computers to the central enterprise repository.

Finally, you can make the preparations to run StreamServer applications and, if required, StreamStudio applications.

Installation – steps

•	Step 1 – Preparations

•	Step 2 – Install Framework and StreamServer

•	Step 3 – Install Control Center

•	Step 4 – Install StreamStudio (optional)

•	Step 5 – Install Design Center

After the installation – steps

•	Step 1 – Get started in Control Center

•	Step 2 – Create the StreamServe Enterprise Repository

•	Step 3 – Connect all computers to the central enterprise repository

•	Step 4 – Prepare to run StreamServer applications

•	Step 5 – Prepare to run StreamStudio applications (optional)