Installation Guide 2018.

03

Table of Contents
Overview..................................................................................................................................... 2
Prerequisites............................................................................................................................... 2
Package content ......................................................................................................................... 2
Installation .................................................................................................................................. 3
Windows Server ...................................................................................................................... 3
Linux Server ............................................................................................................................ 3
Uninstallation ............................................................................................................................. 6
Windows Server ...................................................................................................................... 6
Linux Server ............................................................................................................................ 6
Support ....................................................................................................................................... 8
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Overview
In order to install the Discngine Network Collection you should carry out the following three
steps:

 Installation of the Discngine Core collection that contains a shared library used by all
new versions of the collection (if this collection was not already installed before).
 Installation of the Discngine Utilities collection, which is used by some example
protocols and ships additional utility components (if this collection was not already
installed before).
 Installation of the Discngine Network collection.

Prerequisites
 A deployed BIOVIA Pipeline Pilot server v9.2 or above
 Local access with administrator privileges on the aforementioned server
 The BIOVIA Pipeline Pilot Chemistry and Reporting collections
Regardless which server operating system you are running the server on, if a previous
release was already installed on the server, you should first uninstall the Discngine Core,
Core, Utilities and Network collections prior to installing the current release. Please refer to
refer to the chapter

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 Uninstallation.

Package content
The Discngine Network collection package contains BIOVIA Pipeline Pilot components and
example protocols, this installation guide and documentation.

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Installation
Setting up the product license
Before installing the package, the product license must be set properly. If you did not
received a valid license, please contact us at support@discngine.com.

The installation process is fairly simple: just copy the entire content of the license file
provided by Discngine and paste it at the end of the package.conf file of the collection
(located in the root folder, i.e. discngine/network2 folder). If you already had a license which
expired, just replace the previous one with the new one.

Once done, please follow the installation steps described in the next sections.

Windows Server

 Download the packages from the Discngine website and unzip the packages on your
Pipeline Pilot server into a folder of your choice ([UNZIP-LOCATION]).
 Logon on the Pipeline Pilot server.
 Make sure that you uninstalled and removed (or backed up) the packages in case a
previous release was already installed.
 Copy the content of [UNZIP-LOCATION]\discngine directory into
[SCITEGIC_ROOT]\apps folder.
 Open the command line prompt from the Windows start menu.
 Change the directory to [SCITEGIC_ROOT]\bin.
 Install the Discngine Core package as follows:

pkgutil –i discngine/core

 Install the Discngine Utilities package as follows:

pkgutil –i discngine/utilities

 Install the Discngine Network package as follows:

pkgutil –i discngine/network2

Linux Server

 Download the packages from the Discngine website and unzip the packages on your
Pipeline Pilot server into a folder of your choice ([UNZIP-LOCATION]).
 Logon on the Pipeline Pilot server.

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 Make sure that you uninstalled and removed (or backed up) the packages in case a
previous release was already installed.
 Copy the content of [UNZIP-LOCATION]/discngine directory into
[SCITEGIC_ROOT]\apps folder.
 Open a terminal.
 Change the directory to [SCITEGIC_ROOT]/linux_bin.
 If not already done so, source the Pipeline Pilot environment variables for
o Bash:

source ppvars.sh

o Csh:

source ppvars.csh

 Install the Discngine Core package as follows:

./pkgutil –i discngine/core

 Install the Discngine Utilities package as follows:

./pkgutil –i discngine/utilities

 Install the Discngine Network package as follows:

./pkgutil –i discngine/network2

GraphViz
In order to use the GraphViz component of the Network2 collection, GraphViz must be
installed on the Pipeline Pilot server. Please refer to the installation documentation of
GraphViz:

http://www.graphviz.org/download/

Once installed, a server global variable must be defined in order to provide the path to the
GraphViz binaries folder. To do so, login on the Administration portal of your Pipeline server,
and define the following global variable with the appropriate value:

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In AEP 9.* and later release, this can be performed at the following place (Setup -> Global
Properties) in the administration portal:

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Uninstallation
Windows Server

 Logon on the Pipeline Pilot server.

 Open the command line prompt from the Windows start menu.
 Change the directory to [SCITEGIC_ROOT]\bin.
 Uninstall the Discngine Core package as follows:

pkgutil –u discngine/core

 Uninstall the Discngine Utilities package as follows:

pkgutil –u discngine/utilities

 Uninstall the Discngine Network package as follows:

pkgutil –u discngine/network2

 Delete, rename or move the discngine/core, discngine/utilities and

discngine/network directories before installing a new version.

Linux Server

 Logon on the Pipeline Pilot server.

 Open a terminal
 Change the directory to [SCITEGIC_ROOT]/linux_bin.
 If not already done so, source the Pipeline Pilot environment variables for
o Bash:

source ppvars.sh

o Csh:

source ppvars.csh

 Uninstall the Discngine Core package as follows:

./pkgutil –u discngine/core

 Uninstall the Discngine Utilities package as follows:

./pkgutil –u discngine/utilities

 Uninstall the Discngine Network package as follows:

./pkgutil –u discngine/network2

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 Delete, rename or move the discngine/core, discngine/utilities and

discngine/network2 directories before installing a new version.

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Support

Feedback, features request, and bug reports are always welcome. Don’t hesitate to contact
us directly using the following information:

 support@discngine.com

 +33 1 80 48 66 70