Silent Installation of the Process Discovery Server

The format for the location of the install folder is {local drive}:\{InstallFolder}.

By default the InstallFolder location is {local drive}:\Nintex.

If you choose to change the location of InstallFolder:

• It should be targeted to a local folder on a drive with more than 500GB of free disk space.

• The InstallFolder can't be the root folder of a drive (for example, C:\ is not allowed).

• The InstallFolder folder name can't include spaces (for example, C:\Install Folder\ is not allowed).

• The InstallFolder folder path cannot be longer than 19 characters (20 if a backslash is added at the end).

To change the install folder location:

1. Open the Nintex Process Discovery Server Installation configuration file, PDServer64BitSetup.exe.json, with a text editor.

2. Enter the value for InstallFolder parameter between the corresponding double-quotes, for example:

"InstallFolder": "C:\\NewFolder

The syntax for specifying folder and file locations in JSON uses a double backslash in each location in which Windows syntax would use a single backslash, for example: C:\\ProgramFiles\\MariaDB\\

3. Save the JSON file.

Databases are installed on the Process Discovery Server to collect, analyze, and work with the data received from the robots. Nintex Process Discovery uses four application databases to work its magic.

The Process Discovery Server installation package automatically installs the database engines. If you prefer, you can manually install the database engines yourself, or connect to existing ones. Installation creates the following default users for the databases:

Optional steps:

• Configuring a Preexisting Database Engine Installation

• Manually Installing the Database Engines

The Process Discovery Server installation package automatically installs the RabbitMQ Server. You can opt to connect to a preexisting RabbitMQ instance later in the installation procedure. See Customize queue manager.

If you want to connect to a preexisting RabbitMQ instance, you may need to add permissions to the admin RabbitMQ user at this time. To do so, follow these steps: Rabbit MQ user management.

(optional) The following default back-end ports are used in the Discovery Server. We recommend NOT to open them in the firewall. They are customizable, if required:

If you want to customize back-end port settings, see:

• Alternative to ports 5001-5004

• Alternative to port 5058

• Alternative to port 3306

1. The following default external ports are opened automatically in the Windows Firewall during the installation process. These ports are intended for an installation that does not use TLS (see below for SSL/TLS ports). Open them in your hardware firewall prior to installing the server.

If you will be using TLS, open the following ports in your hardware firewall prior to installing the server.

1. Download the Process Discovery Server installation files to a local folder on the Server. Do not copy these files to the Install Folder location.

   • PDServer64BitSetup.exe

   • PDServer64BitSetup.exe.json

2. If you have received yourNintex Process Discovery license file (.llk) from your contact at Nintex or the Nintex distribution partner, you can at this point prepare it to be installed automatically at the time of the Process Discovery Server installation. If you wish to install it after the Process Discovery Server installation, copy the file to the same folder in which PDServer64BitSetup.exe is located.

1. Access the command prompt and run as an administrator.

2. Change the directory to the location of where you copied the installation files by typing in: CD {Folder location}.

For example, CD C:\FolderName\.

3. Hit <ENTER>.

4. Type in: START/WAIT PDServer64BitSetup.exe -silent

5. Hit <ENTER>.

6. The installation can take up to 20 minutes, depending on the Server processor power. If needed, the system restarts automatically to complete the installation.

Verify the Process Discovery Server installation

If the system doesn't require a restart, to verify the installation, immediately after the process completes, run the ECHO command with the %errorlevel% parameter, by typing: ECHO %errorlevel%. The exit codes are shown in the command line.

The exit codes are as follows:

• 0 = success

• 1 = reboot required

• 8 = incompatible machine

• 16 = database failure

• 32 = bad target folder

• 64 = incompatible target drive

• 256 = success with warnings

• 1024 = property value failure

• 2048 = package failure

or

After a system restart during installation, you can verify the installation by viewing the Process Discovery Server Installation Logs.

Follow these steps to set up your Process Discovery license (if you did not do so previously during installation):

1. Copy the license file you received to the Install Folder.

2. From the Windows Services app or the Windows Task Manager > Services tab:

   • Restart the Kryon Server - Process Discovery Service.

   • Check the Status column of the Kryon Server - Process Discovery Service to ensure that it shows Running.

Verify the Process Discovery Server installation by checking that you can connect to the following components:

1. Connect to RabbitMQ: Log in to RabbbitMQ using the user name admin and the default password Nintex2023!.

2. Connect to the Console: From a web browser on the Process Discovery Server, enter the following URL: localhost/console

3. Login with the following username and password:

Username: Pdconsole

Default temporary password: Pd123456! (if you changed the password, use the new password you created).

4. Connect to SEQ: From a web browser on the Process Discovery Server, enter the following URL: http://localhost/seq

5. Connect to the Nintex Process Discovery User Management Tool:

   1. Open an incognito window in Chrome and enter the following URL: localhost/auth/admin//console/#/realms/

   2. Log in with the following username and password:

   Username: authadmin

   Default temporary password: Nintex123! (you may be asked to change the password. If you do, be sure to write it down.)

If you have connected successfully to the above, you're done installing the server!