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Installation Guide

Plan, install, upgrade, and verify a PI Nexus+ deployment, from the service account and SQL Server to the first scan.

Overview

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Version: 1.7.0.0

This guide is for the Windows, SQL Server and PI System administrators who install PI Nexus+, from planning the servers to the first scan, and who later upgrade it.

The documentation has four parts:

  • Installation Guide (this document): plan, install, upgrade and repair PI Nexus+, and fix installation problems.
  • Administration Guide: connect PI Data Archives, AF, PI Vision and hosts, set up scan automation and notifications, and keep PI Nexus+ running.
  • User Guide: find unhealthy objects, investigate issues, follow dependencies and changes, and confirm repairs.
  • Reference (online only): the tables behind all three guides, such as defaults, states, issue catalogues, rights and ports, at https://www.software-athlete.com/pages/documentation-pi-nexus-reference.

Articles in this category

13 articles
Overview and ArchitectureThis chapter tells you what PI Nexus+ installs, where its parts run, and the order in which you install it.Plan the DeploymentThis chapter helps you choose the servers, check their prerequisites, open the network paths and size SQL Server before you install.Prepare the Service AccountThis chapter prepares the Windows account that runs PI Nexus+, so that the installer can assign it and scans can read the PI System.Prepare SQL ServerThis chapter decides who creates the PI Nexus+ database and makes sure that person has the SQL Server rights for it.Run the InstallerThis chapter installs the web application and the scanner service, interactively or silently.Set Up the DatabaseThis chapter creates or prepares the PI Nexus+ database, applies its schema and saves the connection that PI Nexus+ uses.Verify Runtime IdentitiesThis chapter confirms that Windows runs PI Nexus+ as the service account, because a fallback identity opens the app but fails at SQL Server and the PI System.Open PI Nexus+ and Install the LicenseThis chapter opens PI Nexus+ for the first time, checks the database connection and installs the license.First Targets and First ScanThis chapter takes a new installation to automatic monitoring: add the targets, check readiness, prove each scan type on a small scope, then start automatic monitoring.Split DeploymentThis chapter installs the web application and the scanner service on two servers, converts a single server, and covers operating and changing a split deployment.Upgrade, Repair and UninstallThis chapter upgrades PI Nexus+ to a new version, repairs an installation and removes it.Installation TroubleshootingThis chapter fixes the problems that stop an installation from working. Read the log in C:\ProgramData\Software Athlete\PI Nexus+\Logs for the full error. Scan and connection problems are covered in Troubleshooting Scans and Connections in the Administration Guide.Checklist and Important PathsThis chapter is the sign-off list for an installation and the short list of paths and facts support asks for.