Install ASTA Online on Windows by Installer

Requirements

The following requirements has to be met

Hardware requirements

  • Memory: At least 8 GB recommended

  • CPU: Should be a modern processor with multiple cores

  • DISK: At least 30 GB for the base and the rest depends on the volume of your data. The rough estimate is that it will take about 2 GB of disk space for every million of archive units. So if there is 2 millions of data then 30 + (2 * 2) = 34 GB should be enough

It is highly recommended to install Elasticsearh on a separate machine. For detail info about Elasticsearh hardware requirements see https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/hardware.html

OS requirements

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and later

  • Microsoft Windows 7 and later

Asta requirements

At least Asta v5.4.3 is required.

Installing/Upgrading/Uninstalling

Download the installer from https://asta-online.s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com/installer_win

Install Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch v7.10 can be installed by following https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.10/windows.html

Now we need to change the elasticsearch cluster name. For doing that open /path/to/elasticsearch/config/folder/elasticsearch.yml and change the following

Uncomment cluster.name and set it to astaonline

cluster.name: astaonline

Install ASTA Online

Run the installer then just follow the instructions

Provide the necessary application properties/configurations in the installer. If desired those can be provided later, open the path_to_application_directory\application.properties, and change to the appropriate values. Like

asta.origin=http://localhost:8088 asta.institute.id=asta asta.service.requisition.enabled=true oracle.host=localhost oracle.port=1521 oracle.service=xe oracle.username=nyeasta oracle.password=nyeasta oracle.logMiner.service=xe oracle.logMiner.username=aominer oracle.logMiner.password=aominer es.host=localhost server.ssl.enabled=false server.ssl.key-store-type=JKS server.ssl.key-store=path/to/key/file server.ssl.key-store-password= server.ssl.key-alias=

The installer will install the ASTA Online application as a service. After finishing the installation start the services from Windows Services. 

Open http://your_server_host:9090 in the browser to start using ASTA Online.

Upgrade ASTA Online

Same as installing.

Uninstall ASTA Online

The application can be uninstalled from the control panel like any other windows application.

Running

Necessary Ports

  • 9090 for accessing AstaOnline (can be changed by server.port property)