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SUPPORT Q&A - Creating multiple instances of Aras Server

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itie - Tuesday, August 21, 2007 1:26 PM:

Hi All,

I have a requirement where in i need to have 3 different instances of Aras innovator.
For Ex.
www.myinnovator.com/public
www.myinnovator.com/qa
www.myinnovator.com/demo

How to achieve this? Is it necessary to run setup.msi thrice or Is there any better solution to achieve this.

Regds.
Sanjeev

Bill - Friday, August 24, 2007 12:43 PM:

Sanjeev,

Aras Innovator can certainly be installed multiple times on the same machine. This is very useful when working on multiple developement projects. I recommend doing this by running the installer multiple times, just be sure to change the Web Alias, database names, and file paths so that they do not overlap.

See also Section 9 "Running the Installer Multiple Times" of the Aras Innovator - Installation Guide.

-Bill

itie - Sunday, August 26, 2007 10:26 AM:

Thanks Bill.

We will update the forum once we are done.

jcarty - Monday, May 25, 2009 10:56 AM:

Good morning all;

Great posts, thank you for saving us lots of time. I have a best-practices question. If this is outlined in an Innovator document, please feel free to direct me there.

One of our customer has a need to maintain different databases, for different product lines. We have just installed Innovator 9.10 for one product. Is it better to have an entire new Innovator instance for each product, or is it sufficient to have a discrete Innovator database per product?

Also, we are able to successfully switch from database to database by editing DB-Connection id in InnovatorServerConfig.xml. We would prefer to keep the customer out of editing xml (not very technical). I see that the Innovator client (localhost/.../Client.com) has a drop-down box for Database. At present, the only drop-down value available is the default InnovatorSolutions database. Is there a way to configure the Innovator client, so that the drop-down lists multiple product databases?

Thanks very much!

John Carty

CMC Systems

the Innovator client I may have a similar requirement, for a customer who needs to maintain different databases. The purpose is to manage different products in their own database

Brian - Tuesday, May 26, 2009 6:45 PM:

Hi John,

It’s really easy … you just use Notepad or WordPad to make an new entry in the InnovatorServerConfig.xml file referencing the new database. Give it a different name and a different database name. Here is an example:

<DB-Connection id="Production" database="Companyname_Production" server="serverinstance" uid="innovator" pwd="password" dbType="SQL Server" />

<DB-Connection id="Development" database="Companyname_Development" server="serverinstance" uid="innovator" pwd="password" dbType="SQL Server" />

There is no need to restart any services: just go to the Innovator Server URL in your web browser and the two (or more) entries will be available for you to select from in the Database selector. Note that the databases can be on different SQL Server machines, or different SQL Server instances on the same machine, or on the same instance (as in this example).

Cheers,

Brian.

SUPPORT Q&A - Creating multiple instances of Aras Server

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