First time Installation
The IncrediBuild Enterprise Edition installer should be installed on the host machine that you intend on using within your IncrediBuild infrastructure. During the first installation you will install an IncrediBuild Coordinator and an IncrediBuild Agent on your host machine.
Notes:
- You must obtain a valid license to proceed with the installation process.
- To obtain a license contact us at support@incredibuild.com
Typical Installation
To get you started with IncrediBuild Enterprise Edition
- Download the IncrediBuild Enterprise Edition installer file.
- After you have the installer file downloaded, you may begin the installation process.
- Open the installer file and you will be greeted by this screen:
- Click Next to proceed.
- You will be given two options. You can directly Install IncrediBuild to your machine or you can set up an Automated Installer. For your first installation use the "Install IncrediBuild" option.
- Click Next to proceed.
- Accept the Terms and Conditions and click Next.
- On the following screen you have the choice of doing a Typical Installation or a Custom Installation. Since this is your first installation it is suggested to use the Typical Installation option. This will install both a Coordinator and an Agent on your host machine.
- Click Next to proceed.
- You can install a new Coordinator or connect to an existing one. Install a new Coordinator for your first installation.
- Click Next to proceed.
- The Agent Settings screen will appear. You can configure the maximum cache size for the Agent and also have the option to install the IncrediBuild add-in for the Microsoft Visual Studio IDE.
- Click Next to proceed.
- Now you can select which ports to be used by the IncrediBuild Agent. We suggest using the default ports selected unless they conflict with other ports currently in use.
- Click Next to proceed.
- The Coordinator Network Settings window will appear. We suggest using the default port unless it conflicts with a port currently in use.
- Select a Destination Folder for where you want IncrediBuild installed.
- Click Next to proceed.
- Select where you want your IncrediBuild Database installed and select a port to be used for the locally installed Dashboard. We suggest the default port unless it conflicts with a port currently in use.
Note: Make sure you select destination large enough to contain your database as it could become really big in size over time.
- Click Next to proceed.
- Setup is now ready, Click next and wait for the installation process to complete.
Popups may appear during the installation process for the Apache HTTP server. Make sure you allow access through Windows Firewall
- Setup is now complete, now all you need to do is load in a valid license.
- Locate your license file location and load it in.
- Click Next, the Loaded License screen will now appear, confirming your License details.
- Click Next to proceed.
Note: If you haven't received your license, contact support at support@incredibuild.com
- The next window will notify you that the IncrediBuild components have successfully been installed.
- Click Finish.
- You are now ready to use IncrediBuild Enterprise Edition.
Installing Additional Agents
To fully harness IncrediBuild's acceleration potential, you will need additional Agents, called Helper Agents installed on remote machines. This steps below show you how to do this.
To install Helper Agents:
Download the IncrediBuild installer file.This will install an IncrediBuild Agent on the machine