Installing Third-party Components for GlobalSight on Ubuntu

This guide describes how to install the required third-party components for GlobalSight on Ubuntu server. If not specified, the Ubuntu Server is 14.04 LTS version. This guide has been updated to cater for GlobalSight version 8.6.7. If you need install and run GlobalSight version prior to 8.6.7, read System requirements to find the supported JDK and MySQL Server version for previous GlobalSight version.

Prerequisites

• The GlobalSight software package for Ubuntu has been downloaded as described in Installing GlobalSight.
• Download MySQL Community Server from the MySQL website.
• Download Java Development Kit from the Oracle website.
• The login user has the sudo privilege.
  • Note 1: For GlobalSight version 8.6.3 and above, Oracle JDK 8 (at least 1.8.0_u45) is required.
  • Note 2: Beginning with GlobalSight version 8.6.6, MySQL Community Server 5.5, 5.6, and 5.7 are supported.

Choosing passwords for GlobalSight components

Use an at least 8-character password, that is the combination of the alphanumerical characters and symbols. Note that DO NOT contain less than (<), greater than (>), ampersand (&), apostrophe ('), or double quotes (") sign in password. 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. Installing MySQL Community Server using generic binary packages won't set 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 and Client

Here we describe two means to install MySQL Database Server and Client on Linux: installing with APT repository for Ubuntu and Debian distribution, and installing with generic binary package for common Linux distributions. Visit Installing MySQL on Linux for more details about installing MySQL on various Linux distributions.

You can install the MySQL Database Server and GlobalSight application on separate servers, just make sure that MySQL command-line client is installed on the same server as the GlobalSight application.

Installing MySQL using APT repository

As described on the MySQL website, "The MySQL APT repository provides a simple and convenient way to install and update MySQL products with the latest software packages using Apt". We recommend this means to install MySQL on Ubuntu Server.

Depending on Ubuntu Server's version, a version of MySQL server, client tools, and other components is already included in Ubuntu's native APT repository. Below table lists the MySQL major release version in each Ubuntu Server version.

Ubuntu Server version	MySQL version
Ubuntu Server 12.04.5 LTS	MySQL 5.5
Ubuntu Server 14.04.3 LTS	MySQL 5.5
Ubuntu Server 15.10	MySQL 5.6
Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS	MySQL 5.7

Prerequisites

• The current user has sudo privilege.
• Internet access.
• MySQL server or client is not installed.
  • Check whether MySQL generic binary package is installed

    Type: whereis mysqld mysql

    If nothing returns after mysqld: and mysql:, then no MySQL server or client is installed on Ubuntu Server.

    Read Uninstall MySQL generaic binary package to remove MySQL generic binary package if needed.

  • Check whether MySQL server or client is installed using APT repository or using Debian packages

    Type dpkg -l | grep mysql | grep ii

    If nothing returns, then no MySQL server or client is installed on Ununtu Server.

To install MySQL using Ubuntu native APT repository

1. Update APT reposity list

   Type: sudo apt-get update

2. Install MySQL Server and Client at the same time

   Type: sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client

   Check the packages will be installed carefully, if no problem, type Y to continue.

   During the installation, you are required to set password for MySQL root user.

   

   
   

   When installation is finished,MysQL server starts automatically.

   Note 1: You can omit mysql-client in above command, because APT tool will install the command-line client tool with mysql-server together by default.

   Note 2: This command is also used to upgrade MySQL to the latest version in APT repository.

3. Stop MySQL service for further configuration

   Type: sudo service mysql stop

   Note: beginning with Ubuntu Server 15.04, you can use command sudo systemctl stop mysql instead.

To install MySQL using MySQL APT repository

Besides Ubuntu's native APT repository, MySQL also provides APT repository for latest MySQL 5.6 and 5.7 version.

1. Download MySQL APT repository deb package from the MySQL website to local system

   The latest deb package is mysql-apt-config_0.6.0-1_all.deb, visit MySQL APT Repository to download it.

2. Install the MySQL APT repository

   Type: sudo dpkg -i mysql-apt-config_0.6.0-1_all.deb

   You will see below screen appears

   

   
   

   By default, MySQL APT repository will install MySQL Server 5.7, and MySQL Tools & Connenctors is disabled. This configuration is suitable for Ubuntu Server version.

   You can press Enter to change MySQL Server to 5.6 version.

   

   
   

   If the Ubuntu Server have a GUI window, you can install MySQL Tools & Connenctors too.

   

   
   

   On the main package configuration screen, Select Apply and press Enter to continue.

   

   
   

3. Update the repository

   Type: sudo apt-get update

4. Install MySQL Server and Client

   Type: sudo apt-get install -y mysql-server mysql-client

5. Stop MySQL service for further configuration

   Type: sudo service mysql stop

   Note: beginning with Ubuntu Server 15.04, you can use command sudo systemctl stop mysql instead.

To configure the database

• Edit file /etc/mysql/my.cnf for MySQL 5.5
  • Add below lines under [mysqld] section

  lower_case_table_names=1

  character-set-server=utf8

  collation-server=utf8_general_ci

  innodb_file_per_table=1

  innodb_buffer_pool_size=1G

  • Uncomcent and update below line

  max_connections=800

  • Update below line

  max_allowed_packet=50M

  • Replace below line

  key_buffer=16M to key_buffer_size=16M

  • Comment below line

  bind-address=127.0.0.1

• Edit file /etc/mysql/mysql.cnf for MySQL 5.6 and 5.7

  Add below lines at the file bottom

  [mysqld]

  lower_case_table_names=1

  character-set-server=utf8

  collation-server=utf8_general_ci

  innodb_buffer_pool_size=1G

  max_connections=800

  max_allowed_packet=50M

  bind_address=*

• Edit file /etc/mysql/mysql.cnf for MySQL 5.7

  Add below lines under [mysqld] section

  sql_mode=STRICT_TRANS_TABLES,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION,NO_ZERO_DATE,NO_ZERO_IN_DATE,ERROR_FOR_DIVISION_BY_ZERO,NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER

Note 1: the default value of innodb_buffer_pool_size is set to 128M, you can increase it if system hardware allows.

Note 2: for MySQL 5.6 and 5.7, the max value of max_connections may be limited to 214 by Ubuntu Server.

Installing MySQL Client for GlobalSight application server

If you prefer to install MySQL database and GlobalSight application on separate servers. You should install MySQL Client on the same server as the GlobalSight application.

To install MySQL Client only

1. Update APT repository

   Type sudo apt-get update

2. Install MySQL Client

   Type sudo apt-get install -y mysql-client

Installing MySQL using Generic Binary packages

You can also install MySQL using generic binary package which allows more detailed configuration while MySQL installation.

Prerequisites

• You have downloaded the latest supported version.
• The current user has read/write privileges to the /usr/local directory.
• The current user has the sudo privilege.
• Uninstall any versions of MySQL previously installed using native APT repository

  Type: sudo service mysql stop

  Type: sudo apt-get remove mysql-server mysql-client

  Type: sudo apt-get autoremove

  Type: sudo rm -r /etc/mysql

• Install shared library required by MySQL

  Type: sudo apt-get update

  Type: sudo apt-get install libaio1

To install MySQL

1. Download and copy MySQL generic binary package, for instance,mysql-5.5.48-linux2.6-x86_64.tar.gz, or mysql-5.7.11-linux-glibc2.5-x86_64.tar.gz to local system
2. Unpack the compressed tar package

   Type: cd /usr/local

   For MySQL 5.5

   Type: sudo tar zxvf /path/to/mysql/package/mysql-5.5.48-linux2.6-x86_64.tar.gz

   Or for MySQL 5.7

   Type: sudo tar zxvf /path/to/mysql/package/mysql-5.7.11-linux-glibc2.5-x86_64.tar.gz

3. Create a symbolic link for the MySQL directory

   For MySQL 5.5

   Type: sudo ln -s /usr/local/mysql-5.5.48-linux2.6-x86_64 mysql

   Or for MySQL 5.7

   Type: sudo ln -s /usr/local/mysql-5.7.11-linux-glibc2.5-x86_64 mysql

4. Remove the compressed tar package

   Type: sudo rm -f /path/to/mysql/package/mysql-5.*.tar.gz

5. Create user and group mysql for MySQL

   Type: sudo useradd -r -s /bin/false mysql

6. Change the owner and group attributes of the files to the MySQL user

   Type: cd mysql

   Type: sudo chown -R mysql:mysql .

   Note: do not omit the period at the end.

7. Set up the MySQL internal database by running the script

   For MySQL 5.5

   Type: sudo scripts/mysql_install_db --user=mysql --basedir=/usr/local/mysql --datadir=/usr/local/mysql/data

   Type: sudo chown -R mysql:mysql data

   The information below pops up when the script is imported successfully.

   

   
   

   Or for MySQL 5.7

   Type: sudo mkdir mysql-files

   Type: sudo bin/mysqld --initialize-insecure --user=mysql --basedir=/usr/local/mysql --datadir=/usr/local/mysql/data

   Type: sudo bin/mysql_ssl_rsa_setup

   Type: sudo chown -R mysql:mysql data mysql-files

   Note: these commands apply to MySQL 5.7.6 and later.

8. Create a automatic start script for MySQL

   Type: sudo cp support-files/mysql.server /etc/init.d/mysql

   Type: sudo update-rc.d mysql defaults 98

9. Set the MySQL executable binary path by adding the following to the bottom of /etc/profile file

   export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin

   Note: you need to log in again for the new PATH variable to take effect.

To configure the database

When MySQL is installed, we still need set or update some MySQL global variables before creating GlobalSight 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

   For MySQL 5.5

   Type: sudo cp /usr/local/mysql/support-files/my-medium.cnf /etc/mysql/my.cnf

   For MySQL 5.7

   Type: sudo cp /usr/local/mysql/support-files/my-default.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 or add below line for all MySQL versions:

   max_allowed_packet = 50M

   • Add below lines for all MySQL versions:

   lower_case_table_names=1

   character-set-server=utf8

   collation-server=utf8_general_ci

   • Add below lines for better performance for all MySQL versions:

   max_connections=800

   • Comment below lines for MySQL 5.5:

   log-bin=mysql-bin

   binlog_format=mixed

   • Update or add below lines for MySQL 5.5:

   table_open_cache=400

   query_cache_size=16M

   net_buffer_length=16K

   thread_cache_size=8

   innodb_buffer_pool_size=1G

   innodb_file_per_table=1

   • Uncomment and update below lines for MySQL 5.7:

   basedir=/usr/local/mysql

   datadir=/usr/local/mysql/data

   port=3306

   socket=/tmp/mysql.sock

   innodb_buffer_pool_size=1G

   • Update below line for MySQL 5.7:

   sql_mode=STRICT_TRANS_TABLES,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION,NO_ZERO_DATE,NO_ZERO_IN_DATE,ERROR_FOR_DIVISION_BY_ZERO,NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER

Note 1: for MySQL 5.6 and 5.7, the max value of max_connections may be limited to 214 by Ubuntu Server.

Note 2: innodb_file_per_table is enabled by default as of MySQL 5.6.6, thus you just need explicitly set its value to 1 for MySQL 5.5.

Note 3: by default, innodb_buffer_pool_size and innodb_buffer_pool_chunk_size are equal to 128M; innodb_buffer_pool_instances=1 when innodb_buffer_pool_size is less than 1G, and innodb_buffer_pool_instances=8 when innodb_buffer_pool_size is equal to or greater than 1GB. If your system hardware allows, increase the value of innodb_buffer_pool_size, but it must be a multiple of innodb_buffer_pool_chunk_size and innodb_buffer_pool_instances.

Increasing max_connections value for MySQL 5.6 and MySQL 5.7

Although you have set max_connections=800 in my.cnf or mysql.cnf file for MySQL 5.6 and MySQL 5.7, you may find the real value is limited to 214 on Ubuntu Server.

You can use below command to check the actual max_connections value:

Type: mysql -h<mysql_hostname_or_ip_ address> -P<mysql_port> -u<globalsight_user_name> -p <globalsight_database_name> -e "show variables like 'max_connections';"

Example: mysql -hlocalhost -P3306 -uglobalsight -p globalsight -e "show variables like 'max_connections';"

To increase the value of max_connections, follow below steps:

1. Enable pam_limits.so for common session

   Edit and add below line in file /etc/pam.d/common-session

   session required pam_limits.so

2. Increase open file limitation for user mysql

   Edit and add below lines in file /etc/security/limits.conf

   mysql hard nofile 4096

   mysql soft nofile 4096

Starting MySQL Database Server

Now you can start MySQL database server to further setup and testing.

Type: sudo service mysql start

Note 1: beginning with Ubuntu Server 15.04, you can also use command sudo systemctl start mysql.

Note 2: the MySQL service name may be mysql.server if you didn't change the name when you copy support-files/mysql.server to /etc/init.d/ directory.

Setting password for MySQL root user

MySQL root user is not protected by password when installing MySQL with generic binary packages, you MUST set a password for root user after starting MySQL Server.

Type: mysqladmin –u root password

You will be prompted to enter the new password twice.

Note: If you install MySQL by using generic binary package, but not append /usr/local/mysql/bin to system PATH variable, type command /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin -u root password instead.

You will be prompted to enter the new password twice to take effect.

Creating the GlobalSight database and user using the MySQL command line

The GlobalSight Installer cannot create database and user automatically, you should create them with MySQL command-line tool on Ubuntu Server.

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

1. Log in to MySQL as root

   Type: mysql -uroot -p -h <mysql_hostname_or_ip_ address>

   You will be prompted to enter MySQL root user's password.

   If the MySQL root user password is not set, you can login to MySQL by

   Type: mysql -uroot -h <mysql_hostname_or_ip_ address>

   and 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 '<globalsight_user_name>'@'%' identified by '<globalsight_user_password>';

   Example: create user 'globalsight'@'%' identified by 'password';

   Note 1: this command also sets a password for the new created user.

   Note 2: you can omit @'%' in above create user command.

   Note 3: replace % with localhost, then that user can only connect to MySQL database on local system.

4. Grant all privileges of the GlobalSight database created above to the database user created above

   Type: grant all on <globalsight_database_name>.* to '<globalsight_user_name>'@'%' identified by '<globalsight_user_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 1: You can omit identified by '<password>' in above grant command if you have set password for user 'globalsight'@'%' already.

   Note 2: Above create user and grant privileges command allow user 'globalsight' to remotely connect MySQL server from any network ip address. For security concerns, you can replace % with a specific ip address. Then only user from that ip address can remotely connect to the MySQL server.

   Example: create user 'globalsight'@'192.168.1.29' identified by 'password';

   Example: grant all on globalsight.* to 'globalsight'@'192.168.1.29';

5. Commit the changes

   Type: commit;

6. Exit MySQL

   Type: exit

Testing the MySQL setup

When MySQL installation and configuration described above are finished, test the setup to ensure MySQL works as expected.

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 -u <globalsight_user_name> -p -h <mysql_hostname_or_ip_ address> -P <mysql_port>

   Example: mysql -uglobalsight -ppassword -hlocalhost -P 3306

   Note: for security concerns, do not include explicit password in command.

   Note 2: you can omit -h <mysql_hostname_or_ip_ address> -P <mysql_port> for localhost database with default 3306 port.

   If you recieve 'access denied 28000' error, review MySQL documentation here.

2. Connect to the MySQL database created earlier. This example uses the database name 'globalsight'

   Type: use <globalsight_database_name>

   Example: 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. Oracle JDK 8 is incompatible with GlobalSight version prior to 8.6.3, you should install JDK 6 or JDK 7 instead.

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-8u45-linux-x64.tar.gz

4. Remove the compressed JDK package

   Type: sudo rm /path/to/jdk/package/jdk-8u45-linux-x64.tar.gz

5. Set system variables: JAVA_HOME and PATH

   Edit /etc/profile file and add contents as below:

   export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java/jdk1.8.0_45

   export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin

Note: you need log in again for the new variable values to take effect.