Installing Third-party Components for GlobalSight on Ubuntu

Prerequisites

• The GlobalSight software package for Ubuntu has been downloaded as described in Installing GlobalSight
• Download MySQL Community Server from the MySQL website
• The login user has the sudo privilege.

Choosing passwords for GlobalSight components

Use an 8-character password, that is the combination of the company name and an integer. For reference, the following is a list of usernames and passwords for all of the GlobalSight components. Your new cross-component GlobalSight password is shown as <password>.

Component	Username	Password	Description
MySQL	root	<password>	The root-user for MySQL. It doesn’t set default password for MySQL root user, but it is recommended to set it after the installation.
MySQL	globalsight	<password>	The user that owns all of the GlobalSight tables

Installing the MySQL Database Server

To install the MySQL Database Server and GlobalSight application on separate servers, you need to install either the MySQL server or MySQL client on the same server as the GlobalSight application.

The instructions below apply to MySQL Community Server.

Installing MySQL from tar.gz Packages

Prerequisites:

• You have downloaded the latest supported version
• The current user needs read/write privileges to the /usr/local directory
• The current user needs the sudo privilege
• Uninstall any versions of MySQL previously installed
  Type: sudo service mysql stop
  Type: sudo apt-get remove mysql-server
  Type: sudo apt-get autoremove
  Type: sudo rm -f /etc/mysql/my.cnf
• Install shared library required by MySQL
  Type: sudo apt-get install libaio1

To install MySQL:

1. Download and copy mysql-5.5.31-linux2.6-x86_64.tar.gz to local system
2. Unpack the tar.gz file
   Type: cd /usr/local
   Type: tar zxvf /path/to/mysql/package/mysql-5.5.31-linux2.6-x86_64.tar.gz
3. Create a symbolic link for the MySQL directory
   Type: sudo ln -s mysql-5.5.31-linux2.6-x86_64 mysql
4. Create a user and a group for MySQL
   Type: sudo useradd –r mysql
5. Change the owner and group attributes of the files to the MySQL user
   Type: sudo chown -R mysql:mysql /usr/local/mysql-5.5.31-linux2.6-x86_64
6. Go to the MySQL directory
   Type: cd mysql
7. Set up the MySQL internal database by running the script
   Type: sudo ./scripts/mysql_install_db --user=mysql --basedir=/usr/local/mysql
   The information below pops up when the script is imported successfully
   
   
   
   
8. Create a new start script for MySQL
   Type: sudo cp ./support-files/mysql.server /etc/init.d/
   Type: sudo update-rc.d mysql.server defaults 98
9. Set the path by adding the following to /etc/profile file
   export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin
   Note: you need to log in again for the PATH to take effect

Configuring the database

To configure the database:

1. Create the /etc/mysql directory, if it does not already exist
   Type: sudo mkdir /etc/mysql
2. Copy the default configuration file for the expected size of the database
   Type: sudo cp /usr/local/mysql/support-files/my-medium.cnf /etc/mysql/my.cnf
   Type: sudo chown mysql:mysql /etc/mysql/my.cnf
3. Add or update the following under the [mysqld] section in /etc/mysql/my.cnf
   Update:
   max_allowed_packet = 16M
   Add:
   default-storage-engine=INNODB
   lower_case_table_names=1
   log-bin-trust-function-creators=1
   character-set-server=utf8
   collation-server=utf8_general_ci
   init-connect='SET NAMES utf8'
   max_connections=500
   innodb_file_per_table=1
   Uncomment and update:
   innodb_data_home_dir = /usr/local/mysql/data/
   innodb_data_file_path = ibdata1:10M:autoextend
   innodb_log_group_home_dir = /usr/local/mysql/data/
   innodb_buffer_pool_size = 50M
   innodb_additional_mem_pool_size = 2M
   innodb_log_file_size = 5M
   innodb_log_buffer_size = 8M
   innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 1
   innodb_lock_wait_timeout = 500
   Comment:
   log-bin=mysql-bin
   binlog_format=mixed
4. Add the following under the [client] section in /etc/mysql/my.cnf
   default-character-set=utf8
5. You can now start the MySQL server
   Type: sudo service mysql.server start
6. Set a password for MySQL root user
   Type: sudo /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin –u root password ‘new-password’

Creating the GlobalSight database and user using the MySQL command line

To create the database and user using the MySQL command line:

1. Log in to MySQL as root
   Type: mysql -uroot -p<mysql_root_password> -h<mysql_hostname_or_ip_ address>
   If the MySQL root user password is not set, you can login to MySQL by
   Type: mysql -uroot -h<mysql_hostname_or_ip_ address>
   Grant the privileges and change the password for the root user
   Type: grant all on *.* to 'root'@'localhost' identified by '<mysql_root_password>';
2. Create the GlobalSight database
   Type: create database <GlobalSight Database Name>;
   Example: create database globalsight;
3. Create a database user for GlobalSight
   Type: create user '<User Name>'’@'%' identified by ‘<Password>’;
   Example: create user 'globalsight'@'%' identified by 'password';
4. Grant all privileges of the GlobalSight database created above) to the database user created above
   Type: grant all on <GlobalSight Database Name>.* to '<User Name>'@'%' identified by '<password>';
   Type: flush privileges;
   Assume that your have created a database named “globalsight”, the user name is “globalsight”, and the password is “password”. Then, the command should be:
   Example: grant all on globalsight.* to 'globalsight'@'%' identified by 'password';
   Example: flush privileges;
   Note:If you want to connect to the MySQL server from other network ip, you need to grant privileges to the network ip address.
   Type: grant all on globalsight.* to 'globalsight'@’192.168.29.29’ identified by ‘password’;
   you can also use '%' instead of the specific network ip address to add all the network ips.
   Type: grant all on globalsight.* to 'globalsight'@’%’ identified by ‘password’;
   Also need to use command flush privileges
   Type: flush privileges;
5. Commit the change
   Type: commit;
6. Exit Mysql
   Type: exit

Testing the MySQL setup

To test the MySQL setup:

1. Log in to MySQL as the user created earlier. This example uses the MySQL user 'globalsight' with the password 'password'
   Type: mysql -uglobalsight -ppassword -hlocalhost
2. Connect to the MySQL database created earlier. This example uses the database name 'globalsight'
   Type: use globalsight
3. Check the status
   Type: status
   Note: The status information for 'Current database:' and 'Current user:' should match the information entered above
   You also use the MySQL username, password and database name later in the GlobalSight setup
4. Exit MySQL
   Type: exit
   
   
   
   

Installing JDK

The JDK package should be installed on the same server as the GlobalSight application.

To install JDK:

1. Download the latest supported version. You can also find the setup file in the GlobalSight Software Package
2. Create the directory for Java, if it does not already exist
   Type: sudo mkdir /usr/local/java
3. Unpack JDK package to directory for Java
   Type: cd /usr/local/java
   Type: sudo tar zxvf /path/to/jdk/package/jdk-7u21-linux-x64.tar.gz
4. Set the JAVA_HOME and PATH
   Edit /etc/profile file and add the content as below:
   export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java/jdk1.7.0_21
   export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin
   export PATH
   Note: you need log in again for the PATH change to take effect