Installation

Prerequisites

• JRE/JDK 8 or higher. InfoLink should work on any JRE/JDK. Here is a list of JDK that have been successfully used by our users:

  • Oracle JRE 8: Oracle Java SE Runtime Environment 8 Downloads .
  • Adopt Open JDK 11: https://adoptopenjdk.net .
  • Amazon Corretto OpenJDK 11: https://aws.amazon.com/corretto .

• Apache Tomcat 9.0.0 or higher.

• InfoLink comes with a built-in database (based on H2) to store the metadata repository. Instead of using H2 you can store the metatdata in an external database. In this case you have to have one of the following:

  • PostgreSQL 9.6 or higher. See Configure an External Metadata Repository section for installation and configuration instructions.
  • SQL Server 2016 or higher. See Configure an External Metadata Repository section for installation and configuration instructions.

Installation Steps

• Step 1: Unzip infolink.zip and copy the infolink directory to the location of your choice.

• Step 2: Set environment variable INFOLINK_HOME in your operating system (Windows/Linux) to point to the infolink directory.

  • In Windows: Open Advanced System Properties of Control Panel by pressing Windows+R and typing sysdm.cpl, then click Advanced tab, click Environment Variables, add the INFOLINK_HOME variable under section System Variables.

• Step 3: Restart Tomcat. Without restarting, Tomcat will not see INFOLINK_HOME set at the previous step.

• Step 4: Download and deploy InfoLink server version (server.war) to Tomcat by coping server.war file to <path to Tomcat>/webapps/ directory.

• Step 5: To initialize InfoLink, open your browser and enter: http://localhost:8080/server. Edit the port if your Tomcat listens on another port. When you access InfoLink first time, you will be redirected to the setup page.

  • if you do not set databaseName in the InfoLink configuration file, it will say that Metedata Repository does not exist and will propose you to create one. Click Yes, create it. InfoLink will create a new database (named inflink_master) and show you a confirmation page. Click on home page link to start using InfoLink.

• Step 6: Sign in to InfoLink http://localhost:8080/server using “admin” as user and “admin” as password. You can change the password of the admin user as described in Manage users.