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= INSTALLING NEOSYS SERVICE =
[[Checklists]]


== Main installation: ==
[[Technical / Hardware requirements]]


=== Downloading and running installation files ===
[[Preliminary Check-list and other Misc items]]


# http://www.neosys.com/support/accounts.exe Install to X:\Neosys
[[Configure Firewall]]
# http://www.neosys.com/support/adagency.exe Install to X:\Neosys


=== Creating shortcuts ===
[[Setting up and using remote support]]


Make desktop shortcut ‘Maintenance’ from X:\Neosys\Neosys\Adagency.bat
[[Installing NEOSYS Service]]


=== Activating NEOSYS using authorization number ===
[[Configuring Antivirus for NEOSYS]]


Start NEOSYS Maintenance and it will give a “Computer Number” and ask for an “Authorisation No”
[[Configuring NEOSYS on Windows 10]]


Send the computer number to NEOSYS admin to get the authorization no.
[[Installing & Configuring Apache]]


If you cannot get the authorization number immediately then you can close NEOSYS and when you reopen NEOSYS it will still give the same computer number and accept the same authorization number.
[[Setting up Host Name]]


=== Installing initial Database ===
[[Benchmarking NEOSYS]]


First time entering maintenance you will enter a command box (like NEOSYS F5)
[[Handling backup in Virtual Server]]


Type FILEMAN and then restore. You will need a BACKUP.ZIP file in C:\ containing the initial database.
[[Backup and Restore#Configuring NEOSYS automated backup|Configuring NEOSYS automated backup]]


=== Creating a .CMD file to start NEOSYS Service: ===
[[Installing EMS Magic]]


In x:\neosys create a file startmain.cmd
[[Establishing Emergency Support Procedures]]


x:
[[Setting up for non-latin characters]]
cd \neosys\neosys
Start neosys.js /system ADAGENCY /database <b>databasecode</b> /user NETSERVICE /pass NETSERVICE


(where <i>databasecode</i> is the code of the database)
[[Configuring and Administering Multi-site Installations]]


In x:\neosys create a file starttest.cmd
[[Installing on Windows 7]]


x:
[[Restricting usage of NEOSYS to licence period]]
cd \neosys\neosys
Start neosys.js /system ADAGENCY /database <b>testdatabasecode</b> /user NETSERVICE /pass NETSERVICE


(where <b>testdatabasecode</b> is the code of the testdatabase)
[[Configuring NEOSYS for various language character sets]]


=== Differences for Pure Accounts Module Only Installations ===
[[Configuring NEOSYS to display local time]]


[http://itwiki.neosys.com/index.php/Setting_up_monitoring_in_Nagios#Adding_a_new_NEOSYS_installation_.28new_client.29 Setting up Monitoring from Nagios]


Accounts module only has a slightly different startup command. In the above, replace '''/system adagency''' with '''/system accounts''' to startup a service and use '''accounts.bat''' instead of '''adagency.bat''' to start up maintenance. Other than that, accounts module setup is identical. Pure accounts clients are very few and tend not to upgrade often so care needs to be taken when upgrading. Upgrade is perhaps surprisingly done using the adagency.exe file.
[[Implementing NEOSYS]]


=== Creating a .CMD file to copy maindata to testdata ===


In x:\neosys create a file copymain2test.cmd
Obsolete:


Xcopy x:\neosys\data\<i>maindatabasecode</i> x:\neosys\data\<i>testdatabasecode</i> /s /y
[[Configuring IIS]]


=== Setting up daily scheduled tasks ===
[[Setting up HTTPS]]


Maindata – 3 processes starting 6:00 am, 6:01 am, 6:02 am
[[Installing IE7 & IE8 Download Blocker]] ** required for Windows Server 2003
 
Testdata – 1 process at 6:04 am
 
Copy Maindata to Testdata – 1 process at 2:45 am
 
For multiple sites on the same computer put the second site starting five minutes later at 6:05, third site starting five minutes earlier at 5:55, the third site starting five minutes later at 6:10 and so on.
 
== Measuring the speed of NEOSYS ==
 
 
 
In NEOSYS maintenance press F5:
 
 
 
Filespeed Measures the speed at to create and delete a file with 1000x1Kb records - lower time is better
 
 
 
Procspeed Measures the processor speed – higher speed is better
 
 
 
Memspeed Measures the memory speed – higher speed is better
 
 
 
SSL / HTTPS:
 
Get SELFSSL – iis60rkt.exe from Microsoft
 
(deselect all options – except SSL) – Install
 
Start > Programs > IIS Resources > Self SSL
 
Type command – use standard one, but put V:9995 instead of V:7
 
In case the secure port 443 has to change, you need to change it here
 
((need sample command))
 
((explanation on how to handle multiple sites))
 
= CLOSING NEOSYS SERVICES =
 
Two automatic ways:
 
*NEOSYS services will automatically initiate a database integrity check, “backup” and close down at 2am by default.
 
To change the time of the automatic process do F5 ED DEFINITIONS
 
line 3 is the minimum time to start the backup and shutdown (default 7500 ie 02:00)
line 4 is the maximum time to start the backup and shutdown (default 7800 ie 02:05)
 
both times must be in seconds past midnight
 
press F5 and type PRINT ICONV(’02:00’,’MTH’) to calculate this easily
 
 
 
*NEOSYS will automatically close down during the upgrade procedure.
 
 
 
Three manual ways:
 
 
 
Warning: NEOSYS services do not shutdown automatically on server shutdown so you need to use one of these methods before shutting down or rebooting a server.
 
 
 
*To close individual services, press Esc three times on a service and then ctrl+C once or twice. Repeat for each service that you want to close.
 
This can only be done if you can actually see the services on the screen but the services will not be visible if they were started by scheduled tasks while administrator was not logged in to the server … unless you login as /console with remote desktop.
 
 
 
*To close all services for one site/neosys installation, use the NEOSYS Support Menu – Stop/Restart NEOSYS
 
Currently this has no option to stop the services for any other neosys sites/installations on the same server
 
 
 
*To close all services for all sites and installations of NEOSYS under a particular folder, use NEOSYS maintenance (or any other program) to create and then delete a GLOBAL.END file in the parent folder of all the neosys installations. eg if the installations are located in x:\hosts\clientcode\neosys etc then create and delete a file called x:\hosts\GLOBAL.END
 
 
 
#In NEOSYS Maintenance press F5 to get a NEOSYS command prompt
 
#Type ED DOS ..\..\GLOBAL.END and press Enter
(use ED DOS GLOBAL.END instead if you only want to close the services of the current site)
 
#Press F9 to create the GLOBAL.END file
 
#Wait until the processes close. Should be almost immediate.
 
#Press alt+D twice to delete the GLOBAL.END file otherwise Neosys services will refuse to start
 
 
 
= UPGRADING NEOSYS =
 
== Upgrading NEOSYS: important pointers ==
 
If you have the time backup the entire NEOSYS folder or
 
To backup just the programs copy Neosys\Neosys, Neosys.net, Neosys.mac
 
To backup the data copy DATA
 
 
 
Run http://www.neosys.com/support/adagency.exe
 
 
The installation procedure first creates a GLOBAL.END file in the NEOSYS programs folder causing all serving processes to terminate. Maintenance processes must be terminated manually.
 
 
Next, the installation procedure attempts to update the WAITING.EXE file and, if the processes haven’t terminated quickly enough, this will fail asking for retry or abort. Retry immediately or once all the processes have terminated.
 
 
The last step of the installation procedure is to delete the GLOBAL.END file to allow processes to start normally. <i>If you choose to abort the installation for any reason then the GLOBAL.END file will have to be deleted manually since its presence prevents any processes from starting up.</i>
 
 
 
= USING RSYNC TO BACKUP SERVERS =
 
== Notes ==
 
http://rsync.samba.org/
 
 
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync
 
 
 
rsync doesnt do any encryption so must be run over ssh
 
 
 
rsync uses port 873
 
 
 
rsync only copies over only the bits of the files that have changed but this is not effective for files like ZIP which are completely recreated.
 
== Setting up rsync server ==
 
install rsync using cygwin/setup.exe
 
 
 
To expose /cygdrive/x/neosys folder as name "neosys" without any security so be careful that port 873 is not open
 
 
 
create file /etc/rsyncd.conf
 
 
 
[neosys]
 
path = /cygdrive/x/neosys
 
comment = location of all neosys data and programs
 
 
 
to start rsync manually
 
rsync --daemon
 
== Setting up rsync client ==
 
Setup a target folder
 
md x:\hosts
 
md x:\hosts\clientname
 
 
 
install rsync using cygwin/setup.exe
 
=== Connecting Interactively ===
 
tunnel local port 873 to remote port 873 eg by using putty/ssh in the usual way or:
 
ssh -L 873:127.0.0.1:873 administrator@clientname.support.neosys.com -p 19580
 
 
 
then in a new shell
 
 
 
rsync -avz localhost::neosys/ /cygdrive/x/hosts/clientname --delete --ignore-errors --exclude=/proc --exclude=/cygdrive/[a-z]
 
(or just –az for warnings and errors only)
 
=== Connecting Automatically ===
 
(this seems to hang in some cases on cygwin)
 
Use rsync to issue the ssh command like this:
 
 
 
rsync -az –e “ssh –p 19580” administrator@clientname.support.neosys.com:neosys/ /cygdrive/x/hosts/clientname/ --delete --ignore-errors --exclude=/proc --exclude=/cygdrive/[a-z]
 
 
 
e.g.
 
rsync -avz -e "ssh -p 19580" administrator@adlined.neosys.com:/cygdrive/d/neosys/ /cygdrive/d/hosts/adlined/ --delete --ignore-errors --exclude=/proc --exclude=/cygdrive/[a-z]
 
=== Connecting without password (not best possible security) ===
 
On client as administrator
 
 
 
ssh-keygen –t dsa –b 1024 (generates priv/pub keys in .ssh  no passphrase for autologin)
 
chmod 600 ~/.ssh/id_dsa (priv must not be accessible to anybody but owner)
 
 
 
(copy the PUBLIC key to the server)
 
scp -P 19580 ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub administrator@servername.neosys.com:/home/Administrator/.ssh/
 
 
 
On server as administrator
 
 
 
cd ~/.ssh
 
cat id_dsa.pub >> authorized_keys (add the clients public key to the list of auth keys)
 
chmod 644 authorised_keys (if new then make sure auth keys accessible to other processes)
 
 
 
Back on Client as Administrator to test
 
 
 
ssh administrator@adlined.neosys.com -p 19580 should login without password now
 
=== Connecting without password (allow rsync only) ===
 
Administrator@una-srvr ~
 
$ mkdir /home/Administrator/rsync
 
 
 
Administrator@una-srvr ~
 
$ ssh-keygen -t dsa -b 2048 -f /home/Administrator/rsync/mirror-rsync-key
 
DSA keys must be 1024 bits
 
 
 
Administrator@una-srvr ~
 
$ ssh-keygen -t dsa -b 1024 -f /home/Administrator/rsync/mirror-rsync-key
 
Generating public/private dsa key pair.
 
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
 
Enter same passphrase again:
 
Your identification has been saved in /home/Administrator/rsync/mirror-rsync-key
 
.
 
Your public key has been saved in /home/Administrator/rsync/mirror-rsync-key.pub
 
.
 
The key fingerprint is:
 
b0:a1:bc:b1:fa:7a:d7:2b:76:9d:34:20:ff:d8:ab:19 Administrator@una-srvr
 
 
 
ssh-keygen -t dsa -b 1024 -f /home/Administrator/rsync/mirror-rsync-key
 
 
 
scp -P 19580 ~/rsync/mirror-rsync-key.pub administrator@adlined.neosys.com:/home/Administrator
 
 
 
on ssh server
 
 
 
vi ~/rsync/checkrsync
 
 
 
#!/bin/sh
 
case "$SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND" in
        *\&*)
                echo "Rejected"
                ;;
        *\(*)
                echo "Rejected"
                ;;
        *\{*)
                echo "Rejected"
                ;;
        *\;*)
                echo "Rejected"
                ;;
        *\<*)
                echo "Rejected"
                ;;
        *\`*)
                echo "Rejected"
                ;;
        rsync\ --server*)
                $SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND
                ;;
        *)
                echo "Rejected"
                ;;
esac
 
 
 
chmod 700 ~/rsync/checkrsync

Latest revision as of 10:03, 8 February 2021

Checklists

Technical / Hardware requirements

Preliminary Check-list and other Misc items

Configure Firewall

Setting up and using remote support

Installing NEOSYS Service

Configuring Antivirus for NEOSYS

Configuring NEOSYS on Windows 10

Installing & Configuring Apache

Setting up Host Name

Benchmarking NEOSYS

Handling backup in Virtual Server

Configuring NEOSYS automated backup

Installing EMS Magic

Establishing Emergency Support Procedures

Setting up for non-latin characters

Configuring and Administering Multi-site Installations

Installing on Windows 7

Restricting usage of NEOSYS to licence period

Configuring NEOSYS for various language character sets

Configuring NEOSYS to display local time

Setting up Monitoring from Nagios

Implementing NEOSYS


Obsolete:

Configuring IIS

Setting up HTTPS

Installing IE7 & IE8 Download Blocker ** required for Windows Server 2003

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