Performing a Custom RulePoint Installation

Run the RulePoint installer based on the operating system on which you want to install RulePoint:

To install RulePoint on Windows, run the

Informatica_RulePoint_6.1.2.exe

file from the root directory.

To install RulePoint on Linux, from a shell command line, run the

Informatica_RulePoint_6.1.2.bin -i gui

command from the root directory.

In the

Introduction

page, click

The

Choose Installation Folder

page appears.

Select the installation directory in which you want to install and configure the RulePoint application files.

The following table shows the default location of the installation directory:

Operating System	File Path
Windows	C:\RulePoint_6.1.2
Linux	/userhome/RulePoint_6.1.2

Click

The

Database Configuration Mode

page appears.

Select

Custom

.

The

Design Database Configuration

page appears.

Select a database type from the following list:

Oracle

IBM-DB2

MS-SQL

Enter the database connection information for the repository in which you want to configure the RulePoint design-time components.

The following table describes the connection properties that you specify for the design-time repository:

Property	Description
Database Type	Type of database for the design-time repository.
Database User Name	User name for the database user account.
Database Password	Password for the database user account.
Database Host	Host name of the database.
Database Port	Port number of the database.
Service Name/SID Name	Service name or SID name of the IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, or Oracle database.
JDBC Parameters	Optional. JDBC parameters to include in the JDBC URL. Optionally, you can specify additional JDBC parameters to include in the JDBC URL.
Custom JDBC Connection String for DataDirect driver	Optional. Connection string to connect to the database. To provide a customized connection string, select this option and enter the custom connection string. If there are multiple named instances of Microsoft SQL Server running concurrently on the same server, you must enter the custom connection string in the following format to connect to a named instance: jdbc:informatica:sqlserver://<SERVER_NAME>\<INSTANCE_NAME>;DatabaseName=<DATABASE_NAME> For example, jdbc:informatica:sqlserver://Server1\Instance2;DatabaseName=mySQL1

If you selected

MS-SQL

and want to configure the Windows authentication mode to access the database, perform the following steps:

Select

Custom JDBC Connection String for DataDirect driver

and enter the database user name and password.

You can enter any value for the database password to proceed with the installation.

Copy the

DDJDBCx64Auth05.dll

file from the

<installer files directory>\bin\common\dll

directory to any location, such as

E:\\Installs

.

The absolute path to the

DDJDBCx64Auth05.dll

file, such as

E:\\Installs

, needs to be available whenever RulePoint is running.

On the

Database Configuration

page, enter the custom JDBC connection string in the following format:

jdbc:informatica:sqlserver://<HOST>:<PORT>;DatabaseName=<DATABASE_NAME>;AuthenticationMethod=ntlm;LoadLibraryPath=<DLL_PATH>;

Where,

<DLL_PATH>

is the absolute path of the directory to which you had copied the

DDJDBCx64Auth05.dll

file.

For example,

jdbc:informatica:sqlserver://LOCALHOST:1433;databaseName=rulepoint61;AuthenticationMethod=ntlm;LoadLibraryPath=E:\\Installs

.

In this example,

E:\\Installs

refers to the absolute path where you had copied the

DDJDBCx64Auth05.dll

file.

Click

Test Connection

to ensure that you can connect to the database.

You must test the database connection parameters before you configure the run-time database to verify whether the user input is correct.

The success message appears if the connection to the database is successful.

Click

The

Select an Option

dialog box appears.

Perform one of the following actions to configure the RulePoint run-time environment:

To use the same RulePoint design-time database to configure the RulePoint run-time environment, click

Yes

.

To use a different database for the RulePoint run-time environment, click

No

.

The

Schema Configuration

page appears.

Enter the schema names that you configured for RulePoint design-time and run-time databases, and then click

The

Topology Configuration

page appears.

Enter the topology details.

A topology name refers to the group of all the services, nodes, and hosts of the RulePoint run-time environment.

The following table describes the topology configuration details:

Property	Description
Topology Name	Name for the topology. The default topology name is Default.
Topology Host IP	IP address of the server on which you install RulePoint.
Tomcat Port	HTTP port number of the Tomcat server. The default port is 8080.

If you want to enable a secure connection to access RulePoint, perform the following steps, and then click

Select

Enable HTTPS for RulePoint Design

.

Enter the port number. The default port number is 8443.

Either select a keystore generated by the installer or use an existing keystore, and click

If you use an existing keystore, enter the keystore password and the name of the keystore file.

The

Notification Settings

page appears.

Specify the email notification configuration option to receive alerts on events that occur in the RulePoint run-time components.

To configure email notifications, click

Yes

and then configure the following email notification settings:

Property	Description
SMTP Host	The fully qualified domain name of the SMTP server that you use to send outbound email from RulePoint. For example, mail.mycompany.com
Port	Port number of the SMTP server.
From	Sender email address from which you send outbound emails.
To	Email recipient address to which you send notifications.
Priority	Email messages with the priority that you want to receive. Select from the following options: Critical High Medium Low For example, select Critical to receive email messages that have the priority as Critical. When the default node fails, you receive an email alert of critical priority with the message that the default node has failed.
Verbosity	Verbosity of the email notification. Select from the following options: More Less For example, select Less to receive email messages with brief information of the alert.
User Name	Optional. The user account name of the SMTP server.
Password	Optional. The user account password of the SMTP server.

If you do not want to configure email notifications during installation, click

No

The

Pre-installation Summary

page appears.

Verify the installation summary, and then click

Install

.

The

Installing RulePoint 6.1.2

page appears and displays the installation progress.

If you are using Windows, perform one of the following tasks when a message prompts you to register Windows services for RulePoint components:

If you want to create Windows services for the RulePoint components, click

Yes

.

The RulePoint Design Time and RulePoint Topology services are created in the Windows services. You can use these services to start or stop the RulePoint instances after you complete the installation.

If you do not want to register Windows services for RulePoint components, click

No

.

Click

Done

to complete the installation procedure, and then exit the installer.

If you had specified the custom JDBC connection string in step 8 to access the Microsoft SQL Server database using Windows authentication mode, you need to configure the settings to enable the Windows authentication mode.

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