Windows Installs

The native Windows installer is provided in 2 modes:

  • The Web Standalone installer - for online, quick, uncomplicated installations to single servers
  • The Advanced installer - for offline installations with more setting and deployment choices and the option to install on multiple machines
  • For Linux installations, click here.
  • For unattended command line installation, click here.
  • For System Requirements, click here.

The Windows installer requires internet access to download certain libraries for Python and R.

Standalone Installation

The standalone installation - designed for single machine deployments - is as follows:

  1. Download the bits from Pyramid's customer portal.
  2. Launch the installer with administrative rights on the a host machine (virtual or physical). See details here.
  3. Choose a directory location for the product installation after accepting the EULA (approx 2.5Gb for the entire installation)
  4. Choose a data directory location. (An SSD is highly recommended.)
  5. Click Next to launch the installation
  6. At the last stage you are prompted to provide a username and password for the first user.
  7. After some basic system initializations, the installation is completed.
  8. Either start the Desktop client or go to http://localhost:8181 and login with the credentials set in #6.

Advanced Installation

The advanced installer is similar to the standalone, yet offers multi-server configurations and custom database repository options.

  1. Download the bits from Pyramid's customer portal.
  2. Launch the installer with administrative rights on the a host machine (virtual or physical). See details here.
  3. Choose a directory location for the product installation after accepting the EULA (approx 2.5Gb for the entire installation)
  4. Choose a data directory location. (An SSD is highly recommended.)
  5. Select to install the entire product on a single machine or to choose different components to install (click here for multi-server deployments).
  6. Choose where to deploy the database repository (either PostgreSQL, Oracle or MS SQL Server).
  7. Select whether to just use the internal web server engine or to use a 3rd party web server like Microsoft IIS.
  8. Click Next to launch the installation
  9. At the last stage you are prompted to provide a username and password for the first user.
    1. If a multi-server setup is chosen, the user will only be prompted to provide the first-user credentials when the system recognizes that the minimum requisite servers have been installed on the network. This is the Web Server, Run Time Engine and Router.
  10. After some basic system initializations, the installation is completed.
  11. Either start the Desktop client or go to http://localhost:8181 and login with the credentials set in #6.