Installation guide

The installation is via an MSI.

After installation browse http://localhost:9797 on the Windows Server the software is installed on.

1. Prerequisites

Administrator permissions on a Windows Server.

2. Installation Steps

1. Run the MSI Installer

Locate and run the Cenova MSI installer on your Windows Server.

2. Input the service account details

The installer will then prompt you to specify an account to run the edge service - this account should have access to the file shares that you want to crawl.

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If you need to run as a different user to access network drives you should change the logon user appropriately.

3. Elevated permissions

When prompted, grant elevated (administrator) permissions.

Cenova will now be installed

3. Installed Windows services

After successful installation 3 Windows services should installed and running.

1. Cenova Edge
2. Cenova Server
3. Cenova Grafana

After installation the Cenova web app is available on http://localhost:9797

Cenova also installs a desktop item for direct navigation to the application.

4. Activating a license

When visiting the web application you will be greeted with a screen telling the software needs to be activated with a key. To obtain a Cenova license key please contact support.geo@cegal.com

Enter your license key to activate the software. After activation should see something similar to the below.

5. Installation and logs

The main installation folder is located by default in C:\Program Files\Cegal\Cenova

Dynamic data including licensing and logs are located in C:\ProgramData\Cegal\Cenova

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The ProgramData directory may be a hidden folder so you may have to show hidden folders or browse the path directly.

Log files are located in C:\ProgramData\Cegal\Cenova\log

6. Grafana

If you wish the access Grafana directly rather than via Cenova it is available on http://localhost:4815

7. Installed components

1. Cenova edge service
   
   The edge service is responsible for the collection of the index and in the future may support running on a separate node to the main server components.

2. Cenova server service
   
   The server service is the main service that runs the Cenova web server and other central components.

3. Cenova Grafana service
   
   The Grafana service runs the Grafana server instance.

4. Grafana
   
   Grafana is a dedicated dashboarding tool from Grafana Labs.

5. SQLite
   
   The SQLite extensions are required to extend some of SQLite's core functionality.

6. Cenova website
   
   

The homepage for the Cenova web server.

7. Cenova icon
   
   A installed shortcut placed on the desktop for convenience.