Overview of the installation process

The Infor d/EPM installation wizard is used to install the Infor d/EPM farm. This farm is a set of services that communicate with each other and that can serve requests for one or multiple tenants.

The installation procedure includes these parts:

  1. The first part of the installation is installing the Infor d/EPM services and starting the Service Controller through an installation wizard.
  2. The second part connects and configures the services, to create a secure farm. This step is done through a wizard, that starts automatically after the installation of the services. In the wizard you can select different options for security. The installation steps for the different security options are described in these specific installation procedures:
    • Installing a farm with Basic web access security.
    • Installing a farm with LDAP web access security.
    • Installing a farm with IFS web access security.

    When running the wizard these databases are created:

    Database Default name
    Configuration database BIFarmConfig
    Logging database farm BIFarmLog
  3. After configuring the farm through the wizard, the Farm Expert starts automatically. During this step the farm repository is created, the OLAP data directory is defined and the Administration Service application is installed. This third step is the same for all web security options.

    When running the Farm Expert these databases are created:

    Database Default name
    Repository BIFarmRepository
    Staging dEPMStaging
  4. Optionally, you can install the standard applications, such as Self-Service, Samples, and Infor d/EPM business applications.

    Infor d/EPM business applications are available in two versions: Business Modeling-based and Designer-based.

    For the Business Modeling-based applications, these databases are created:

    Database Default name
    Modeling database BIFarmModel
    Consolidation journal database BIFarmConsolidation
  5. For the Designer-based applications, these databases are created:
    Database Default name
    Integration database dEPMInteg
    Changelog database dEPMChange
    Designer database dEPMDesigner

Extra information

For details on installing an update or patch, see “Installing an update or patch”.

After the services are started and the farm is configured, you can perform any ongoing administration of the Infor d/EPM farm in d/EPM Administration. See the "Administration" section.

The Service Expert is used for configuring global security, global settings and for configuring, starting, stopping, or restarting services. See the "Service Expert" section.

The Farm Expert is used for configuring the farm repository and the standard applications. See the "Farm Expert" section.

We recommend that you distribute the services of an Infor d/EPM farm over multiple machines. This provides scalability and redundancy. You can add additional machines to a farm, by installing single services to single machines.

Note: Installing Infor BI 11.0.x and Infor d/EPM 12.0.x on the same machine is not supported.
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