Installation of Alfabet

The following installation procedure describes installation of Alfabet.

Alfabet consists of the following components:

Overview

Server-side components: Server-side components can be installed on different hosts. The hosts must have the same server time. An Alfabet installation on server-side consists of:

Database layer: One or a cluster of database servers. An instance is based on a single Alfabet database.
Solution/Presentation layer: One or multiple web servers running an Alfabet Web Application and a single running Alfabet Server.
For use of the Alfabet RESTful services: One or multiple separate web applications Alfabet API Server running on the same or different web servers as the Alfabet Web Application.

Client-side components: Users can access Alfabet via a browser. Alfabet 11 supports Microsoft® Edge®, Google Chrome® 37.0 or higher, Mozilla® Firefox® 24.0 or higher, and Apple® Safari® 7.0 or higher.

Administrators and solution designers must install the Alfabet Administrator and the Alfabet Expand Windows Client on a host with access to the Alfabet database.