9.3 Installation

Blueprint comes with every installation of GroupWise Disaster Recovery, but will not be installed by default. It can be downloaded separately.

As it is a separate product, Blueprint requires a separate Licensing.

9.3.1 Installation

Install Blueprint by clicking the Blueprint button on the top navigation bar of the GroupWise Disaster Recovery Web Administration page.

This will open a new tab.

You may open each panel for more information.

  • About Blueprint for GroupWise Disaster Recovery provides bulletpoints on the benefits of Blueprint

  • Example Blueprint Reports provides fictitious example reports to show you how it looks

  • Install Blueprint - Free Trial allows you to install Blueprint with a 30-day free trial license

Select Install Blueprint Now, a new tab will open as a request to the GroupWise Disaster Recovery daemon to install Blueprint is sent. It will take a short time for Blue to be installed.

The installation will be complete when the Blueprint Log tab appears.

9.3.2 Licensing

Blueprint comes with a 30-day free trial period, once the trial period is over reports will no longer be created.

To license Blueprint talk to your sales representative for a validation key

Enter the validation key at licenses.gwava.com to download your license PEM file

Browse to the GroupWise Disaster Recovery Administration Console and select License from the top navigation bar drop-down menu and press Go

Select Click Here to License Blueprint for GroupWise Disaster Recovery this will open a new tab

Browse to the location of the PEM file and Submit the license file

The license will be uploaded successfully

9.3.3 Upgrading Blueprint

Blueprint will check for upgrades every 3 days. It will download a small manifest file to determine if there has been a version change and if so it will download and install the update.

If the GroupWise Disaster Recovery server does not have access to the internet then the update can be downloaded from http://download.gwava.com/download.php?product=Blueprint&version=current

Copy the file to the GroupWise Disaster Recovery Server and place in

 /opt/beginfinite/blueprint/upgrade

At a command prompt, type:

 blueprint upgrade