Installing TrueSight Smart Reporting - Platform silently

Where you are in the Installation process

To install TrueSight Smart Reporting - Platform silently

Do the following:

1. Log in to the computer where you want to install TrueSight Smart Reporting - Platform.
2. (Windows) On the host computer, ensure that you have Administrator privileges.
3. Ensure that either a JRE or one of the following JDK versions exists on the host computer, and either the JRE_Home or the JAVA_HOME environment variable is set:
   • Oracle JRE or JDK version 1.8.0_181 or a later update of version 1.8.0
   • Open JRE or JDK version 11
   If you are installing TrueSight Smart Reporting - Platform and the component on the same server instance, you can use the JRE provided with the component. TrueSight Server Automation - Data Warehouse and TrueSight Network Automation - Data Warehouse are available as components for TrueSight Smart Reporting - Platform.
   Do the following to set the JAVA_HOME and PATH environment variables

   • (Linux) Run the following commands:

     • export PATH= <tssa_dw install directory>/jre/bin/:$PATH
     • export JAVA_HOME= <tssa_dw install directory>/jre/
       
   • (Windows) Do the following:
     1. Open the Windows explorer, and right-click This PC.
     2. Click Properties > Advanced system settings.
     3. Click the Environment Variables button. 
     4. Under System variables, click New.
        In the New System Variable window, add the following details:
        • In the Variable name field, add JAVA_HOME
        • In the Variable value field, browse to the location where the JRE or JDK executable file is saved. For example, C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_181.
     5. Select the Path variable, and click Edit.
     6. In the Edit environment variable window, click New, and type %JAVA_HOME%\bin.
     7. Click OK to save your changes.

4. Create a silent option file, for example silentinstall.properties, with the following properties:

   lang=en

   installpath=/data1/TrueSightSmartReporting

   ServicePort=8443

   CreateYellowfinDB=true

   CreateYellowfinDBUser=true

   DatabaseType=PostgreSQL

   DatabaseHostname=localhost

   DatabasePort=5432

   DatabaseName=yellowfindb

   DatabaseUser=yfuser

   DatabasePassword=bmcAdm1n

   DatabaseDBAUser=postgres

   DatabaseDBAPassword=bmcAdm1n

   ORACLEMODE=Service

   Note: The ORACLEMODE property

   The ORACLEMODE property is valid only for the Oracle database.

   Click here to view information about properties in the silent option file.

5. In the command-line interface, run the following command:

   java -jar TrueSight-SmartReporting-19.3.jar -silent <silent option file path>

   The following are the default credentials:

   • User—admin
   • Password—admin12345
     
6. Apply the TrueSight Smart Reporting - Platform 19.3.00.001 hotfix.
   Do the following:

   1. Navigate to the FTP location for the hotfix.
   2. Download and unzip the TrueSightSmartReporting_HotFix_19.3.00.001.zip file.
   3. Navigate to the TrueSight Smart Reporting - Platform installation directory and take a backup of the tsr.war file.
   4. Replace the existing tsr.war file with the file from the extracted.

Next step in the Installation process

Now that you have successfully installed TrueSight Smart Reporting - Platform, the next step in the installation process is to complete the post-installation activities.

If you want to change the TrueSight Smart Reporting - Platform admin default password, see Modifying-the-TrueSight-Smart-Reporting-Platform-administrator-password.

If you want to roll back the TrueSight Smart Reporting - Platform 19.3.00.001 hotfix, see Technical bulletin — Announcing hotfix 19.3.00.001 for instructions.