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Hi,

I have two questions

1.) When will the dataminer Installer that supports Cassandra cluster/opensearch Cluster be released?

2.) Is there a way to generate the request.lic files before hand, as the installer unattended mode requires a dataminer.lic file?

Thanks

Dave Keller [DevOps Enabler] Answered question 5 days ago

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Hi Chris,

To answer your question and some additional information.

  1. We're currently busy validating the new installer for DataMiner 10.3 and in the future DataMiner 10.4. This installer will still have the local Cassandra installation if you want.
    However we're changing some things so you are able install DataMiner without database, and that you then can configure your external databases.
    We'll however not have a DataMiner installer that will also install Cassandra Cluster and/or Opensearch on external servers.

    For the installation of Cassandra Cluster and/or OpenSearch cluster we're currently developing some scripts so that you can do it from DataMiner, this should be available in the coming months.

  2. We can generate the needed license files in advance if you do want to do an unattended installation. For this it's best to contact your account manager/project manager.
    This is still on our todo to improve for the installer.

Note: with the current installer (10.2) it's impossible to do unattended installations for clusters, and only for standalone agents. We're looking to have this fixed in the 10.3 installer that should be released soon.

Hope this helps you.

Chris Glover [DevOps Advocate] Posted new comment 4th January 2024
Chris Glover [DevOps Advocate] commented

Thanks Thibault!
Just to clarify, I meant telling the installer to use the clusters, as opposed to deploying the databases… I have Ansible to do that 🙂
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Hi Chris,

It looks like an installer for DataMiner 10.4.0 is now available:

DataMiner Installer - DataMiner Dojo

I assume that this will now give options to install without having to install Cassandra first, but I haven't tested it.

Marieke Goethals [SLC] [DevOps Catalyst] Posted new comment 4 days ago
Marieke Goethals [SLC] [DevOps Catalyst] commented

The new installer will allow you to choose between STaaS and self-hosted storage. If you select self-hosted storage, you will need to have Cassandra and OpenSearch clusters ready to connect to: https://docs.dataminer.services/user-guide/Getting_started/Installing_a_DMA/Installing_DM_using_the_DM_Installer.html#dataminer-installer-v104
Note that you can now also download a VHD with DataMiner pre-installed to get started more quickly. Aside from a regular installation, this can also be used to install a staging setup where Cassandra and OpenSearch run locally on WSL (see https://docs.dataminer.services/user-guide/Getting_started/Installing_a_DMA/Using_a_pre_installed_DataMiner_Virtual_Hard_Disk.html)