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 diagram before installation.

Smart Analytics deployment scenario

This section describes Smart Analytics installation options based on different deployment scenarios.

Smart Analytics installer components

The following table lists the components available in Quick Installation and Advanced Installation respectively:

Installation type Components included
Quick installation
  • Smart Analytics Main Server
  • Smart Search Proxy server
  • One content server for Hot Topic Analytics and Smart Ticket
  • Two content servers for Smart Search
  • Default Connector Framework Server (for attachment index for Smart Search)
  • Image server for OCR
Advanced installation
  • All components included in Quick Installation

  • Distributed Content Server

  • Distributed Image Server

  • CFS server

  • SharePoint Connector
  • HTTP Connector
  • File System Connector
  • OMNI Group Server
  • Portal Content

  • Query Manipulation Server

Note The Portal Content and Query Manipulation Server components are for Service Portal only. Install these components only when you use Service Portal.

Here is the description of the components for the Smart Analytics main server.

Component Description
DIH (Distributed Index Handler) Allows you to efficiently split and index extremely large quantities of data into multiple Smart Analytics content servers, in order to create a completely scalable solution that delivers high performance and high availability. It provides a flexible way of transparently batching, routing, and categorizing the indexing of internal and external content into Smart Analytics main server.
DAH (Distributed Action Handler) Distributes actions to multiple child components of Smart Analytics main server. It enables you to scale your system in a linear manner, increasing the speed that runs actions and saving processing time.
Community A Smart Analytics main server component that manages users and communities.
Agentstore A Smart Analytics main server component that stores agents and categories.
Category A Smart Analytics main server component that manages categorization and clustering
View A Smart Analytics main server component that converts files in a repository to HTML formats for viewing in a Web browser.

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 smart 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.

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 connectors.

Default configuration for server ports

Server name Default port number
HPE SM Smart Analytics main server port 9000
Main content server port 10010
Smart Search Proxy server port 20010
First Smart Search content server port 30010
Second Smart Search content server port 30020
Image server port 18000
CFS server port 7000
OMNI group server port 5057
SharePoint connector port 36000
HTTP connector port 5678
File system connector port 1234
Query Manipulation Server port 16000
Portal Content server port 10020

To check ports occupied by Smart Analytics, see Get ports occupied by Smart Analytics.

Note For HPE SM Smart Analytics main server and Smart Search Proxy server, it is recommended you reserve the next 99 consecutive ports that follows the port you configured for the server. For example, if you specify the port number of Smart Analytics main server as 9000, then you need to reserve all the port numbers from 9000 to 9099.