Welcome back to the PI
WebParts 2013 SP1 installation video series.
In the previous video, we
installed and deployed the PI
WebParts SharePoint solution. In this
video, we are going to be installing the PI
WebParts Services. Before we
install it the PI WebParts Services,
you first have to make sure that there is a website available
to install the services to. In order to make
sure that you have one available, you'll want to open up your
IIS Manager.
If you expand Sterling,
and Sites, you will
see the sites you have available.
When you are installing PI WebParts Services,
you want to make sure that you do not install it to the SharePoint site.
This will create issues later on during
the configuration. So you are going to want
to install it to a site that is not the SharePoint one.
We can install it to the default website that is
already there, but I'm going to create a new site
for PI WebParts Services.
In order to do that, you right click sites
and do add website.
Just give it a name, I'm going to call it PI WebParts.
And you have to give it a physical path.
So I'm going to do a
browse,
and I'll go to inetpub and I'm going to right click
and create a new folder
and call it PI WebParts.
And then select
OK. You also want to
change the port. You cannot have two websites
with the same port running at the same time.
So I'm going to change the port number to 88.
Sorry, 888.
And once you have that configured,
you can select OK.
And you'll see the site up here,
we now have a site to install PI WebParts
Services too. So once you have a site available,
or once you've created a new site, you can
start the installation.
We will run
the same installation kit that we did when we
installed the PI WebParts solution.
I'll run it as an Administrator.
Unzip it
to the default location.
And we will see the same
popup that we saw before. The solution is already
installed, so I'm going to uncheck that one and
check PI WebParts Services and select continue.
You'll see a new window popup saying what is going to
install with the PI WebParts Services?.
You'll see it needs a few components like the SDK,
some OLEDB. So select OK and go through the
installation.
The first thing it installs
is the PI SDK. It's asking where I'd like to install it.
I'm going to keep the default location which is
C:\Program Files (x86)\PIPC\.
You may want to change this if you have
another drive installed. Something like D:\Program Files (x86)\PIPC\.
But I'm just going to keep the default.
It's then going to ask for a default PI Server.
I'm just going to use the PI Server that we are going to connect to with PI WebParts,
it's called jgalg
And then select next.
And then it just gives you an overview
of what I'm going to install, the 32 bit PI SDK.
Now I'm going to install the 64 bit PI SDK.
Next is the PI AF client.
It's going to ask you for a default AF Server.
And my AF Server is on the same machine as my PI
Server. So I'm just going to type jgalg
and select next.
This will tell you what components of the PI &
AF client is going to install.
And you'll actually see that one part
is not installed -- the analysis management plug-in.
You'll also see it's not going
to install PI Builder. This is because
that is a plug-in to Excel and I
do not have Microsoft Excel installed on this computer.
It'll say it has to stop an application
and I'll just do that automatically.
And finally we are going to install the
PI WebParts Services.
This is where we select the website to install it to.
Again, you cannot install it to the SharePoint
website. So I'm going to select the website that we
created earlier in the video -- PI WebParts.
Select next. And it's going to ask you
what PI Server you
want to store the
PI WebParts configuration.
Again, use jgalg;
Next it's going to ask which
SharePoint Server host or farm name we're
going to connect to with this PI WebParts Services.
The SharePoint Server is on the same
machine in this case as PI WebParts Services.
So I'll just type in Sterling.
And it will begin the installation of PI WebParts Services.
And with that, we have completed the installation of PI WebParts Services.
It's going to ask to update the PI WebParts solution.
And you'll see that after it updates the PI
WebParts solution, the setup is finished.
Then we can have the installation kit take us to the SharePoint
Administration site. I'm just going to close that.
Once you've completed
installing the PI WebParts Services,
it is a good idea to check out your
application pools. If you open up
IIS Manager and just browse
your computer, you will see application pools.
There are two new ones,
one is called PI WebParts. This one was created when
we created the PI WebParts website. And another one
called PI WebParts Services which was created
when we ran the installation kit. The identity
that the PI WebParts Services application pool is
using needs read access to both the PI Server and the
AF Server. For the PI Server,
you can grant it read access through the recommended
PI mappings or PI trusts.
But the AF Server uses the Active Directory.
So you need to make sure that the
user that this application pool is using
has access to the AF Server.
To change the identity, you can click advanced settings
over here on the right or you can right click and
select advanced settings.
Then under the advanced settings, you'll see one that is
called identity and you can just select the elipsis
to change the identity that
it's going to use. I'm going to use a custom account because
I've created a service account to run this
application pool.
Once I select OK,
you can see that the identity has changed.
Select OK and you'll see it in IIS here as well.
So now
my PI WebParts Services application
pool is using this service account that I've created.
And I'm going to have to give that service account the
correct permissions to both my PI Server and my AF Server
which I'll do later on.
That's all you have to do to install the PI WebParts
Services. In the next video, I'll talk about
configuring PI WebParts.