After you finish the steps in Section 2.2, Beginning the Installation, the rest of the installation process is completed from a Web browser. Refer to Section 1.2, Desktop Operating System and Browser Requirements for supported browsers.
Type the link supplied at the end of your server installation in your Web browser and press Enter to bring up the first page of the Web installation.
The first page you see on the NOWS SBE site is the End User License Agreement (EULA). Read through the agreement and click to advance to the next page.
The next page is Network Settings. Verify the settings or add the correct information.
The IP address should be from the initial setup of your server operating system. Verify that this is accurate.
The netmask and gateway should be changed to match that of your network.
The DNS entry should be the IP address of your DNS server.
The hostname should be the same as your server. Do not include special characters in the name of your server.
The Domain should match the name of your Internet domain name.
After you have entered the correct information, click .
After your network settings have been committed, you are advanced to the License Key page. Enter your contact e-mail address and the license keys that were provided to you, then click
The next step automatically checks for updates to the system and components by means of the Internet. At this early stage, there should be no updates to retrieve. After the check is complete, click .
The User Information page is where you enter password information for the administrator login.You have two options on this page:
If you want to proceed with the Basic setup, enter a password for the NOWS Administrator, then click .
If you want to enter a separate password for the server admin, click , enter a password for the NOWS Administrator and a password for the server, then click .
IMPORTANT:The difference between these two passwords is that the NOWS Administrator password enables you to add, remove, or configure components on your NOWS server from the NOWS Admin GUI. The server password is what you use to configure or update your server from the console. If you don't choose to make each password different, then the passwords are the same as the NOWS Administrator password you have chosen.
When you are at the Install Additional Components page, you can install some, all, or none of the components.
If you choose to install none of the components at this time, you can add components from the NOWS Admin GUI later.The components have been grouped together with similar software types for easy location, often appearing in multiple locations.
If you choose not to install components, click and then on the Install Additional Components page, click again. On the Component Installation page, click Click . To log out, click the red button next to .
If you do choose to install components now, select components on the Install Additional Components page. Click to begin the configuration of your chosen NOWS components.
See Section 3.0, NOWS Components for basic information about NOWS SBE 2.0 components.