Installation overview

Smart Analytics is powered by HPE IDOL. You need to prepare servers to deploy Smart Analytics. Check the information of Smart Analytics architecture as displayed in the following image before installation.

Note For more information, see the Service Manager Smart Analytics Deployment Sizing Guide, which is available on HPE Software Support Online (https://softwaresupport.hp.com) as a white paper.

Quick installation

Components included
  • Smart Analytics Main Server
  • Smart Search Proxy server
  • One content server for Hot Topic Analytics and Smart Tickets
  • Two content servers for Smart Search
  • Default Connector Framework Server (for attachment index for Smart Search)
  • Image server for OCR
Default configuration
  • Smart Analytics Main Server port: 9000
  • Image server port: 18000
  • CFS server port: 7000

Advanced installation

Components included
  • All components included in quick installation

  • Distributed Content Server

  • Distributed Image Server

  • CFS server

Default configuration
  • SharePoint connector port: 36000
  • OMNI group server port: 5057
  • HTTP connector port: 5678
  • File system connector port: 1234

Note After you install a connector, you must configure the parameters for this connector from the corresponding .cfg file before you start the service. For a configuration example, see Configure an HTTP connector.

Here is the description of the Smart Analytics connectors and protocol required for the installation.

Component Description
OMNI Group Server

Communicates with SharePoint connector and LDAP to retrieve access permissions for your users. In this way, the access permissions can be applied to documents in the Smart Analytics main server.

Note LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. A protocol that applications can use to retrieve information from a server. LDAP is used for directory services (such as corporate e-mail and telephone directories), and user authentication.

SharePoint Connector Retrieves information from a Microsoft SharePoint repository, through the SharePoint web services. The connector can also retrieve information from an instance of SharePoint Online.
File system Connector Retrieves various document types from file system so that the documents are available in global search.
HTTP Connector A powerful tool for retrieving documents from a web site. The HTTP Connector uses spiders to find web pages and to process the web pages for content and links to other web sites. HTTP Connector can retrieve various document types, including Web documents, Word, Excel, and PDF files.