Dise Enterprise Installation

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Requirements

Before installing Dise Enterprise, you will need:

PCs meeting the system requirements.
An accessible file share to hold content - this can be an FTP server or a shared folder.
A database server accessible from all PCs in the system, running MySQL 4.1+ or SQL Server 2005+, and administrator account details.

Read more: Network and file access

Pre-install considerations

First is determining which PC(s) will be manager.

Managers do not have to be great performance-wise, but it helps when you preview your material.

PCs that will be running 24/7 showing your material are players.

On these computers you will want to have a good graphics card and hardware.

All PCs in the system need to have appropriate network and file permissions.
The Dise Complete applications (applications you can use for monitoring and controlling the Dise Complete database) can be installed onto any computer you like, as long as they have access to the database server. They do not require licensing.
The licenses for Dise Complete come in CAL (Client Access License) packs. Make sure you have enough CALs (one per manager/player).

Installation

Server side

Main article: Dise Complete Installation

On a machine that you want to use for monitoring (which could well be the manager), install the Dise Complete applications and run the Dise Complete Setup Wizard.
When asked for database connection details, enter the database server and the administrator account details.
The wizard will create the database for you.

Important: For all further access to the database, we recommend you to create and use a restricted account with full access to the Dise Complete database only. This user will be the one that you will need to enter on all PCs in the Enterprise system.

Manager / players

ODBC

Dise Complete utilizes ODBC to communicate with the database server. Currently communication with Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL is supported.

SQL Server ODBC drivers are included in Windows, so no third party installation is required to use SQL server.
MySQL database server requires that you download and install the ODBC driver for MySQL.

This needs to be done on all machines that will access the database.

Read more: MySQL Connector/ODBC

Dise packages

Run the installer package on the manager and player.

Note: The order in which you setup the manager / player does not matter.

You have the choice whether to do an express installation or custom installation.

The custom installation will let you choose exactly what applications to install to disk. You also have the possibility to install software to handle certain type of media, such as PDF addon, Quicktime or Flash player.

There is also demo content ready for installation, all of which is free to use in your presentations.
After the files have been installed, run the Dise Setup Wizard.

Step by step, it will assist you in customizing the manager / player and to setup the database connection.

Dise Complete connection

At the end of the Dise Setup Wizard run, you will have the option to create a Dise Complete connection.

You don't have to set it up now - set it up later by running the Dise Setup Wizard again, as shown in the picture below.

Enter the Dise Complete license key and click Apply.

The connection uses ODBC and it is important to have the ODBC drivers installed (see above).
Clicking Connection settings... > Edit opens a dialog where we will create a datasource (DSN - Database Source Name).

Select Machine Data Source and click New.
Select System Data Source.
Select driver to use, for example "MySQL ODBC 5.1 driver".

In the dialog appearing, enter the details for the server and enter the user authentication created previously.

Select the Dise Complete database in the list of databases on the server.

You can click Test to check that you can reach the database.

Log in to the server by selecting the "Admin" user and an empty password.

Select New Installation when asked, and enter an identity by which to recognize this computer. By default, the hostname of the computer will be used.

In the next page, select how you would like applications on this PC to behave.

Finally, click Done to finish setting up the database connection.

Organization

Once the player is setup and connected to the database, it will report in and show up in the Dise Complete applications. You can use the Dise Complete Manager to setup a structure of your Dise Enterprise system.

Player and Software identities

There are two types of identities used in a Dise Enterprise system.

Player Identity

Each player has their own identity in Dise Complete, the identity is created using the Dise Setup Wizard.

The player identity is stored in the registry as Identity in the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Dise\Dise\. To change the identity just run the Dise Setup Wizard.

Software Identity

Each application that is talking to the Dise Complete database has its own reference as well, this identity is a GUID (Global Unique ID) that is generated the first time the application starts.

The Software Reference for each application is usually stored in the application settings file as SoftwareReferenceUID. The application settings are by default stored in the %LOCALAPPDATA%\Dise\Dise 2010 folder. To change the reference just replace this value (with another GUID), or if you want the identity to be reset to the default, just remove the SoftwareReferenceUID value and it will be reset at the next application start.

Software identity example:

SoftwareReferenceUid={A762C33E-DA8D-448C-9B1F-AA73F29C087B

Post-install recommendations

If more than one user should be able to edit the content, setup content sharing.
We strongly recommend you to install software to allow for remote access and administration on the players.
For MySQL database management, use a tool such as SQLyog Community Edition.
To begin using your Dise Enterprise system, please see Dise Enterprise, Getting started.

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