Pre-Installation
Steps
Security Provider
and each of the FactoryTalk Analytics applications should be installed
with HTTPS/SSL enabled.
IMPORTANT:
It
is recommended that all lower case letters are used for domain names
and hostnames.
- Each of the servers used to host the applications and services should have a fully qualified domain name or FQDN (e.g. dataview.acme-widgets.com). If the user use a DNS server it is likely that user is already using FQDNs for each of the machines on the network. If not, user should consider creating a hosts file that maps the FQDNs. User want to use and the IP addresses for each machine and configuring each machine to use it.
- Each host machine should have at least one X.509 certificate. Each certificate should be signed by a certificate authority (CA) to establish trust between the different hosts. If the user plans to expose any of the application servers on the public internet, the certificates should be signed by one of the commercial CAs. Commercial CAs will not issue certificates for private networks. For machines on a private network user can obtain certificates from an internal user managed CA. If one is not available user can use the scripts described in “Generate CA Signed Certificates”.
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