POS Transaction Analyzer User and Installation Guide, SST Version 1.2

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2 Installing HP NonStop POS Transaction Analyzer

This section covers the procedure to install POS/TA on the Microsoft Windows and on the POS HP NonStop

environment on HP NonStop Server.

2-1 Configuration Requirements and Dependencies

2-1-1 HP NonStop Server

• Any NonStop System – S Series or NS Integrity

• Software Release from G06 to H06.07 or later

2-1-2 For POS/TA Database

• Windows 2000, XP, 2003 or Higher Versions

• Memory – I GB (Minimum), (Recommended 2 GB or Above)

• Disk Space – 250 GB or Above

The disk space depends on how many transactions are to be retained in the database for historical/trend

reporting. Approximately 80GB storage is required for a 100 million transactions.

• SQL Server 2000 or above should be installed on any system on the network

• SQL Server port number in case you are not using the default port

• The Login ID (Windows or SQL Authentication) used to create database in SQL Server must have Database

Creator role

2-1-3 For POS/TA Application Server

• Windows 2000, 2003 or Higher Versions

• Memory – I GB (Minimum), (Recommended 2 GB or Above)

• Disk Space – 40 GB or Above

• POS/TA Application Server should be installed on any system on the network

• The user should have ownership of the POS/TA database

• SQL Server Port if the default port is not to be used

• The user should have rights to register and start a service on the machine

• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 should be installed

2-1-4 For POS/TA Web Server

• Windows 2000, XP, 2003 or Higher

• Memory – I GB (Minimum), (Recommended 2 GB or above)

• Disk Space – 40 GB or Above

• IIS 5.0 or above, Microsoft framework 2.0 should be installed.

If  tag in the web.config file (Drive:\Inetpub\wwwroot\POSTA)

is commented then please remove the comments, else you may receive errors while creating new views.

• Any web browser that is compliant with Microsoft IE 6.0 higher versions

• Database access to the POS/TA database

• Access to the POSMON service on the published port (Specified in Webconfig file)

• POS/TA Database and Application Server should be installed on any system on the network

• SQL Server port number if the default port is not to be used

• For generating reports:

• If using IIS-5 or lower version: Grant rights to the ASPNET user on the root folder

• If using IIS-6 or higher: Grant rights to the Network Service user on the root folder

Installing HP NonStop POS

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