FlexTk Server Installation Guide Flexense Ltd.

FlexTk Server Install Guide

Flexense Ltd.

www.flexense.com

Version 3.4

Sep 2009

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1 Introduction
FlexTk Server is an integrated storage management solution providing advanced storage
utilization analysis, file system classification, rule-based file search, file organizing, data
migration, file synchronization and disk change monitoring capabilities. FlexTk Server runs
in the background as a service and may be controlled using a web-based management
interface, command line tools or a GUI management application.

FlexTk Server provides all major features and capabilities available in FlexTk Ultimate. In
addition, the user is provided with search and monitoring notifications, periodic jobs and
advanced task management capabilities. The web-based interface provided by FlexTk
Server allows one to navigate the host’s file system, perform all major types of file
management operations, and manage tasks, user-defined commands and periodic jobs.

FlexTk Server runs in the background as a service and is capable of performing all types of
file management operations in a fully automatic, unattended mode. The user is provided
with the ability to setup multiple user-defined commands and execute them at specific
time intervals using pre-defined periodic jobs. In addition, FlexTk Server allows one to
receive numerous types of E-Mail notifications for specific operations results, failed tasks or
process errors.

In addition to FlexTk Server LX, the user is provided with a lightweight version of the
product, named FlexTk Server L1, which lacks the GUI server management application and
provides no support for file management operations on network drives. In general, FlexTk
Server L1 is designed to operate locally on a single server or workstation, while FlexTk
Server LX provides an extended set of capabilities allowing one to manage files on multiple
servers and/or external NAS storage devices. For detailed information about specific
product features refer to the FlexTk Server Versions page here:

http://www.flexense.com/flextk_server/versions.html

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2 Installation Process
FlexTk Server is available as a free download from our web site (www.flexense.com) and
from a large number of software directories from around the world. To be sure you are
getting the latest product version check here: http://www.flexense.com/downloads.html

The installation procedure is very simple, requires no special knowledge and may be
completed in less than 30 seconds. There is no need for any additional software. Just
download the FlexTk installation package, run the setup program and you are done.

On the ‘Welcome’ screen press the ‘Next’ button. Read the end-user license agreement
and press the ‘I Agree’ button if you agree with the license terms or the ‘Cancel’ button to
stop the installation process.

Select the destination directory, enter the FlexTk server control and web access ports,
press the ‘Install’ button and wait for the installation process to complete. That’s all you
need to do to install the FlexTk server.

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3 Configuring Windows Service

FlexTk Server runs in the background as a service and is capable of performing all file
management operations in a fully automatic, unattended operation mode. By default,
FlexTk Server runs under the local Windows system account and have administrative
permissions on the host computer it is installed on. Sometimes, in order to be able to
manage files owned by a domain user, it may be required to run the FlexTk server under a
different user account, which has all the required permissions.

In order to configure the FlexTk Server Windows service, open the Windows control panel,
click on the ‘Administrative Tools’ icon and click on the ‘Services’ icon. Find the ‘FlexTk
Server’ service item and double-click on it to open the service properties dialog.

On the ‘General’ tab, press the ‘Stop’ button and wait for the FlexTk service to terminate.
Select the ‘Log On’ tab and enter the user name and password of the user account you
wish to run FlexTk under. Go back to the ‘General’ tab and press the ‘Start’ button to
restart the FlexTk service.

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4 Web-Based Interface
4.1 Web-Based Access

FlexTk Server allows one to navigate the host’s file system, execute all types of file
management operations and manage system configuration using a regular web browser. In
order to connect to FlexTk Server, open your favorite web browser and type http://localhost
in the address bar. During the installation process, FlexTk Server creates a default user
account with the user name ‘admin’ and password ‘admin’. Enter the default user name
and password and press the ‘Login’ button to login into FlexTk Server.

By default, FlexTk Server starts a build-in HTTP server on the default HTTP port (80). In
order to change the FlexTk’s HTTP port, just execute the installation program again and
select a different port number. If you need to access FlexTk Server through the network,
make sure the port number you have selected is open in the host’s firewall.

In order to change the default user password, select the ‘Users’ menu and click on the
‘edit’ user link. On the user properties page, enter a new user password and press the
‘Save’ button to save the user’s configuration.

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4.2 Configuring E-Mail Notifications

FlexTk Server is capable of sending numerous types of E-Mail notifications for specific
operations results, failed tasks and process errors. In order to enable E-Mail notifications
using the web-based interface, login into FlexTk Server, select menu ‘Tools – Options’ and
scroll down to the ‘E-Mail’ section.

On the ‘E-Mail’ section, select the ‘Enable E-Mail Notifications’ checkbox, enter your SMTP
server name, user name, password and ‘From’ e-mail address, and press the ‘Save’ button
to save the system configuration. The entered SMTP server configuration will be used to
send all types of e-mail notifications.

In order to enable specific types of E-Mail notifications that will be sent, select the ‘User’
menu and click on the ‘edit’ link for your user account. On the user properties page, enter
your E-Mail address and select the types of notifications you are willing to receive.

Conditional E-Mail notifications for specific operations results may be configured for
storage analysis operations, file search operations and disk monitoring operations. For
detailed information how to configure conditional E-Mail notifications for each specific
operation type refer to the FlexTk user manual and FlexTk XML format specification.

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4.3 Connecting Network Drives (FlexTk Server LX Only)

FlexTk Server LX allows one to perform all types of file management operations on files
located on network drives and external NAS storage devices. The first way to do that is to
use UNC path names in user-defined commands. The second way to manage files located
on network drives is to map one or more network drives as disks letters.

Due to the fact that FlexTk Server runs in the background as a Windows service, Windows
creates for it a separate logon session with its own list of mapped network drives and
therefore network drives mapped using a regular user account will be invisible to FlexTk
Server. For a network drive to be visible to FlexTk Server it should be mapped from the
FlexTk’s service logon session.

In order to map a network drive, login into FlexTk Server, select the ‘Home’ menu, select
the ‘Connect’ item in the extended command list and click on the ‘Execute’ icon. On the
‘Connect Network Drive’ page, select the local disk letter, enter the network share name,
user name and password, and press the ‘Connect’ button. Once a network share is
connected it will be displayed in the list of disks on the file system home page. In order to
disconnect a previously mapped network disk, just click on the ‘Disconnect’ button located
in the list of tools.

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4.4 Product Registration

Before registering the FlexTk server, the user needs to obtain a FlexTk license. Various
types of FlexTk licenses may be purchased from the FlexTk’s web site here:

http://www.flexense.com/downloads.html
http://www.flexense.com/purchase.html

Once you have purchased a FlexTk license, login into FlexTk Server, select the ‘About’
menu item and press the ‘Register’ button. On the product registration dialog, enter the
customer name, the payment ID and pres the ‘Next’ button.

On the next dialog, click on the ‘Product ID file’ link, save your product ID file to the disk
and send this file to register@flexnese.com as an attachment.

After receiving your product unlock file, select the unlock file and press the ‘Unlock’ button
to finish the registration procedure. Please, take into account that it may take up to 24
hours to receive your product unlock file.

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5 FlexTk Server GUI

5.1 FlexTk Server GUI Overview

In addition to the web-access interface and command line tools available for FlexTk Server
L1, FlexTk Server LX and FlexTk Ultimate provide a server management GUI application.
The server management GUI application provides the user with the ability to manage
tasks, edit user-defined commands, configure periodic jobs, manage file classification
plugins and setup FlexTk server user accounts.

In order to connect to FlexTk Server using the server management application, press the
‘Connect’ button located in the left corner of the main toolbar. By default, FlexTk Server
starts a control server on TCP/TP port 8090. This port is used for both the server GUI
management application and FlexTk command line tools. In order to change the FlexTk’s
control port, just execute the installation program again and select a different port number.
If you need to access FlexTk Server through the network, make sure the port number you
have selected is open in the host’s firewall.

During the installation process, FlexTk Server creates a default user account with the user
name ‘admin’ and password ‘admin’. Enter the default user name and password and
press the ‘Connect’ button to login into FlexTk Server.

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5.2 Product Registration

Before registering the FlexTk server, the user needs to obtain a FlexTk license. Various
types of FlexTk licenses may be purchased from the FlexTk’s web site here:

http://www.flexense.com/downloads.html
http://www.flexense.com/purchase.html

After obtaining a valid payment ID, select the ‘Help – About FlexTk Server’ menu item and
press the ‘Register’ button on the about dialog. On the registration dialog enter the
customer name, the payment ID, export the product ID file and send this file to
register@flexense.com as an attachment.

After receiving your unlock file, press the ‘Import Unlock File’ button and import the unlock
file. Please, take into account that it may take up to 24 hours to receive your product
unlock file.

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