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Installing Decision Central for Insight Integration

There are some important configuration requirements that must be completed before the Decision Central product can be integrated with Xpress Insight.
Verify the following requirements have been fulfilled before starting.
  1. Java 8 installed as the default java on the host machine.
  2. Decision Central 7.2 or later installation files.
  3. Matching Decision Central 7.2 or later license file.
Perform the following steps to install Decision Central.
Important
  1. Decision Central should be installed on the same server as Xpress Insight.
  2. The Decision Central installation path cannot have any spaces.
  1. Open the Decision Central Planning Install and Maintenance Guide that was provided with the Decision Central installation files. Refer to Chapter 3 titled Installing Decision Central for the First Time and perform steps 2 - Download and Unzip the Installation Package and 3 - Set Up.
    Important
    1. You should not install Tableau for Decision Central.
    2. Xpress Insight supplies the database for Decision Central, therefore no other database needs to be configured.
  2. Perform step 4 - Edit the Environment File as described in the Decision Central Planning Install and Maintenance Guide, applying the following settings specific to Insight integration, in addition to any other settings.
    Uncomment and set the following ECM variables: 
    set DC_CONFIG_NUXEO_DB_DRIVER=org.postgresql.Driver
set DC_CONFIG_NUXEO_DB_JDBC_URL=jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/nuxeo
set DC_CONFIG_NUXEO_DB_USER=nuxeo
set DC_CONFIG_NUXEO_DB_PASSWORD=nuxeo
set DC_CONFIG_NUXEO_DB_TYPE=postgresql
set DC_CONFIG_NUXEO_DB_PORT=5432
    Un-comment and set the following Workflow variables: 
    set DC_CONFIG_DB_ACTIVITI_DRIVER=org.postgresql.Driver
set DC_CONFIG_DB_ACTIVITI_URL=jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/workflow
set DC_CONFIG_DB_ACTIVITI_USER=workflow
set DC_CONFIG_DB_ACTIVITI_PASSWORD=workflow
    Un-comment and set the following email server variables: 
    set DC_CONFIG_ACTIVITI_MAIL_HOST=<ip address of your smtp server>
set DC_CONFIG_ACTIVITI_MAIL_PORT=<port of your smtp server>
set DC_CONFIG_ACTIVITI_MAIL_DEFAULTFROM=<from address to use>
    Set the following variables 
    set DC_CONFIG_OAUTH_USER_ACCESS_TOKEN_COOKIE_SECURE=true
set DC_CONFIG_PUBLIC_ASSET_URI=https://<name of your server or localhost>:8080
    Note You should only set DC_CONFIG_OAUTH_USER_ACCESS_TOKEN_COOKIE_SECURE to false when setting DC_CONFIG_PUBLIC_ASSET_URI to use http.
  3. Skip step 5 - (Optional) Set up and Start Bundled PostgreSQL.
  4. Perform step 6 - Start Decision Central to start the Decision Central services.
  5. Perform step 7 - Initialize Decision Central to create the default administrators account.
These instructions have integrated Insight and Decision Central using the default database credentials, and http for communications. It is strongly recommended that the installation is secured before being used operationally with real data. For more, see Securing the Integration with Decision Central.
Covered Topics
Parent Topic Installing FICO Decision Central with FICO Xpress Insight