Installing individual BIRT iHub modules on Windows

This section describes how to install BIRT iHub with Visualization Platform and System Console individually.

Perform the procedures in this section only if you do not have BIRT iHub already installed on your system. If you purchased BIRT iHub Release 3 (including fix releases) or Release 3.1 and installed the files that you downloaded, you can upgrade to BIRT iHub Release 3.1.1 by following the instructions in Upgrading to Visualization Platform 3.1.1 and Upgrading to System Console 3.1.1.

Actuate provides a self-extracting executable file for each BIRT iHub module. Executing the file runs a wizard-based install program, which guides you through the install process. The following sections describe how to use the install programs to install individual BIRT iHub modules.

System Console creates a default cluster automatically. If you install System Console and BIRT iHub individually using the procedures described in this section, you must add a node and a volume to the default cluster after installing System Console. For information on clustering, see Chapter 5, “Managing Clusters,” in BIRT iHub System Administration Guide.

When using the BIRT iHub installation programs, the administrator performs the following tasks:

Downloads the self-extracting executable files, SystemConsole.exe and BIRTiHubVisualization.exe, from the software distribution site

Executes SystemConsole.exe to run the System Console installation program, installing System Console into a directory such as C:\Actuate3
\SystemConsole, using the embedded evaluation license

Executes BIRTiHubVisualization.exe to run the BIRT iHub Visualization Platform installation program, installing BIRT iHub Visualization Platform into a directory such as C:\Actuate3\BIRTiHubVisualization, using the embedded evaluation license

When you run the BIRT iHub installation programs, you see the message “Unable to locate tools.jar.” You can safely ignore this message.