Installation
The System Planning Guide explains how to prepare for your PhixFlow installation.
The Installation Guide explains how to install PhixFlow. This explains how to install Tomcat, how to create the PhixFlow database and configure all necessary server side files.
Once PhixFlow is up and running, you will need to configure system properties through System Configuration.
The Compatibility Guide and Upgrade Planning gives the allowed versions for third-party software dependencies.
Upgrade
The majority of PhixFlow upgrades are very simple and are applied by following the standard instructions. However, well in advance of each upgrade, please check Compatibility Guide and Upgrade Planning. In particular this page provides information which will help you plan if you need a database upgrade or need to install an updated version of the Java runtime. Very occasionally there are also special instructions for an upgrade. These can all be viewed from Compatibility Guide and Upgrade Planning.
Pages related to installation and upgrade are:
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Quick installation
If you are setting up an installation of PhixFlow for evaluation, or a platform for development or testing that requires minimal planning, go directly to Installing PhixFlow.
From Proposal to Deployment
The following diagram illustrates a typical process for going from a proposal for a PhixFlow installation to its deployment.
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The following table provides more details of the stages for this process.
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| Minimum system requirements | As long as the minimum system requirements are met, you can take any approach and chose any platform configuration you wish. | Minimum system requirements |
System planning | System planning to clarify the sales proposal. This includes deciding:
| Planning your PhixFlow System |
| Infrastructure planning and delivery | This stage usually involves engagement between PhixFlow's technical team and yours. This is a chance to establish things like: software versions number; detailed backup plans; service configurations, including disk partitioning; detailed discussion of network components. In many virtualised platforms, databases will the either hosted as cloud native (or "serverless"), or will be created using pre-created image which includes partitioning of the server disks as well as the database installation itself, so the database installation may be covered in some detail, and indeed fully delivered, at this stage. | Infrastructure Planning and Delivery |
| PhixFlow installation | At this stage, system administrators
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| Proof of concept | In many cases, a proof of concept installation of PhixFlow is created early on in discussions, with only minimal consideration of long term planning concerns, and this runs through to the point at which PhixFlow is made available on the fully planned platform. The proof of concept built can be on any platform that meets the minimum system requirements, but we have also provided an example installation that you can run through from initial server creation to a fully operational PhixFlow, based on the Ubuntu distribution of Linux, and the MySQL database. | Minimum system requirements, Installing PhixFlow |
Upgrading Your PhixFlow Installation
Upgrade the platform components, such as the server operating system, databases, Java and Tomcats as required by the providers. Usually this can be done independently of upgrading PhixFlow. However, the platform components must:
- meet PhixFlow's System Requirements and Compatibility
- be configured as required for the operation of PhixFlow.
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To upgrade PhixFlow:
- Check for any Special Upgrade Instructions that you need to follow
- Combine them with the standard steps in Upgrading PhixFlow.
What's Next?
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