Part 4. Installing MicroStrategy

Part 4.  Installing MicroStrategy

You may have thought that we would be tackling the Apache / Tomcat Server setup at this point, however that won't be until later.  We're now in a good position to install the MicroStrategy Suite on our new server and actually start it up to make sure things are looking good up to this point.

This tutorial is going to start off assuming that you've already downloaded the UNIX/Linux 64-bit MicroStrategy package, and have extracted all contents into the /mstr partition we created at setup.  If not, please do so now before continuing on.  If you're having trouble extracting the contents, simply right-click on the package and select 'Extract Here.'  You may need to change /mstr's security settings to allow your user write access, or simply extract the package contents with sudo.

Once the tarball has been extracted, you should have three new directories named:

./Documentation
./Installations
./ReleaseNotes

*Note: Beefore you start the installation, you may want to delete the original .zip package and tarball so that we don't run out of space on our installation partition.

We need to navigate to the ./Installations/QueryReportingAnalysis_Linux directory, and launch the installer with sudo.  *Note:  MicroStrategy recommends to install as root, and run as root, hence the sudo.

mstradm@linux-las9:/mstr/Linux/Installations/QueryReportingAnalysis_Linux> sudo ./setupLinux.bin

You should see the terminal print some information about 'Initializing InstallShield Wizard', then you'll be presented with your first GUI dialog for MicroStrategy.

Select your language and proceed.

Next is simply a Welcome page to MicroStrategy.

Selecting 'Next' will bring you to the MicroStrategy license agreement.  Accept the license terms and proceed.

On the next screen, you'll need to enter your user, company, and license key.  This will be the license key you received at the same time you received your download link for the Free Reporting Suite.  I already have my key which is what I'm going to use.

The next few wizard steps will have you specifying the location of your MicroStrategy component installation.  Here we're going to use the /mstr partition that we created when we setup the openSUSE environment.

For the home directory, I'm going to use /mstr/home

For the install directory, I'm going to use /mstr/install

For the log directory, /mstr/log

Next, we select the actual components that we're going to install.  By default, they should all be checked.  I'm going to leave it at this.

The next few screens will ask for the location for the various Web and Mobile components.  I'm going to keep the default location for all of these items.

*Since we're not using Tomcat and not WebLogic, we can simply hit 'Next' when presented with this screen:

BlackBerry Client Install Location:

Portlets Install Location:

Web Services (J2EE) Location:

Finally, we're ready to install.  You'll be presented with a final summary screen to view your installation details.  Once satisfied, hit 'Install'.

Now just sit and wait as our MicroStrategy components install!

Once the installation completes, the wizard will prompt you to continue on to the next steps to activate your new server installation.

Input your server name, location, use, and hit 'Next'.

Next, input the installer's (you) information.

And finally, confirm that you want to request an Activation code now.  *Note:  You will need an internet connection for this step.

If all is successful, you'll be presented with a confirmation dialog.

And we're all finished!  The next part of this series, we will go ahead and configure the Intelligence Server and Metadata, and start her up!