The installation of openFT is performed under a user id with Windows administrator rights.
openFT V12.1 is installed using Microsoft's Windows Installer. Start guided installation in Windows in the normal manner by double-clicking the setup.exe program located on the data medium containing the openFT software. You can also install openFT in "unattended" mode. See the section “Unattended installation”.
There are three different types of installation depending on whether an FT version is already installed or which FT version is already installed on your computer:
New installation
Your computer does not yet have an openFT or has an openFT < V11.0 on it.Update installation
Your computer has openFT version V11.0 or V12.0 installed.Installation of a correction version (patch)
Your computer has openFT version 12.1 installed.
You can extend an existing installation of openFT using the Change function in Windows and install or uninstall the openFT SNMP agents at a later date. In Windows 10, for instance, the function is located under Control Panel - Programs and Functions - openFT - Repair. This function also allows you to repair an existing installation if necessary.
What you need to observe before installing openFT ...
If German or English is set as the language in the operating system then this language is used during installation and is set by default as the language for openFT. In the case of all other system languages, you are asked whether German or English is to be used for installation and as the default language (see also section “Switching the language interface”).
A Windows user who wants to be able to work with openFT requires the right "Log on locally".
For openFT versions <= V12.1B:
If you want to encrypt file contents, you must also install openFT-CR V12.1 (Windows). This software is offered without a license at a fixed price. If an openFT-CR version < V11.0 is already installed, then you must first uninstall this version before installing openFT. You may only install openFT-CR V12.1 after openFT V12.1 has been installed.Following a new installation of openFT V12.1, only openFT-CR V12.1 can be used. Older versions of openFT-CR from V11.0 or V12.0 can no longer be installed following a new installation of openFT V12.1.
The following applies following an update installation of openFT V12.1:
If openFT-CR from V11.0 or V12.0 was previously installed then the openFT-CR functionality is already activated and remains present following the update installation. If you subsequently uninstall the old openFT-CR then you can no longer reinstall the old openFT-CR.
If you want to use the openFT-Script interface or the Java API then the J2SETM
Runtime Environment 7.0 (JRE 7.0 with update 25) or higher must be installed on your system.
Installation of the SNMP support requires an installed Microsoft SNMP Server, see section “Installation of the SNMP subagent”.
Installation directory
The path under which openFT is installed depends on a number of factors and is generally referred to below as the openFT-installation-directory.
The following points apply:
The path depends on your operating system. By default, openFT is installed in the directory %ProgramFiles%\openFT.
During installation, you can freely specify the installation directory. You must not, however, specify a network drive as the installation path. The maximum path length is 110 characters.
It is recommended that you use the suggested path.
Instance directory
The instance directory is set up during installation and contains subdirectories for application-specific data for the corresponding openFT instance, such as the log file, key pair sets and trace files. On Windows systems, the default pathname is
%ProgramData%\Fujitsu Technology Solutions\openFT\var\instance.instance is the name of the corresponding instance. The standard instance named std always exists.
When you create a new instance using ftcrei, you can select any path name for the instance directory.
The following sections describe which steps must be performed for the three installation variants by you as the system administrator as well as those which are handled automatically by the installation procedure.