DataPower^® Learning Online

Installation help file

Welcome to the installation help file for DataPower® Learning Online. DataPower® Learning Online can be installed on a Windows 2000 server or on a Windows NT 4.0 server with Internet Information Services (IIS). The installation procedure for DataPower® Learning Online varies slightly depending on which of the two operating systems you are using. 

Chapter 3 - 7 describes the process of Creating your DPLOnline database and importing content. These steps are the same regardless of your operating system. You may also refer back to the Importing Content chapter if you need to import more content in the future.

1. Installing DataPower Learning Online on  Windows NT 4.0 Server
2. Installing DataPower Learning Online on  Windows 2000 Server
3. Creating the DPLOnline database
4. Importing Content
5. Test the system
6. Build course sets
7. Build access key 

1. Installing DataPower^® Learning Online on Windows NT 4.0 Server

Prerequisites

To install DataPower Learning Online, the following conditions must be met:

1. The server must run Windows NT 4.0 Server
2. The Windows NT 4.0 Option pack must be installed. Critical components in the option pack includes IIS 4 and MTS 2.0.
3. To achieve the best performance, MS SQL Server 7.0 or higher should be installed (SQL Server 6.5 is also supported).

1.1. Installation process

1. Start User Manager for Domains from the Administrative Tools program group
2. Add user "DPLearning". Clear the checkbox User Must Change Password at Next Logon, select Password Never Expires. Select Add to add the user. Exit User Manager for Domains
3. Insert the DataPower Learning Online Setup CD in the CD-ROM drive and run setup.exe
4. Choose Destination location for the general Web files. This folder will later be connected as a virtual directory using Internet Service Manager
5. Choose Destination location for the Web components (.dll files). These components will later be registered in MTS
6. Choose Destination location for the Administration program. This program will be used to set up the training web site and add courses and licenses to the system
7. Choose whether to install ADO 2.1 (not needed if ADO 2.1 is already installed)
8. Choose whether to install MSDE (not needed if you will use MS SQL Server 6.5 or higher)
9. If you have chosen to install MSDE, select destination directories and locale information for the MSDE installation. The sort order and Unicode locale should match
10. Start the installation. ADO and MSDE (if chosen) will be installed directly after the DataPower Learning Online System
11. A reboot of the computer may be necessary depending of which components were installed.

• If you choose to install both ADO and MSDE, a reboot may be required immediately after the installation of ADO
• The DataPower Learning Online setup will restart itself to continue with the installation of MSDE
• If the setup fails to restart, you have to restart setup.exe with the parameter "/i2" in order to install the Microsoft Data Engine (MSDE)

After the setup program has finished, you need to manually register components in MTS and set up the system to communicate with the database.

1.2. Register components in MTS

1. Start Transaction Server Explorer and select My Computer -> Packages Installed
2. Select Action -> New -> Package
3. Select Install pre-built packages
4. Select Add...
5. Select the file DPLearning.PAK in the mts folder on the setup CD. Click Open
6. In the Select Package Files dialog, select Next >
7. In the Set Package Identity dialog, select This user, and enter the DPLearning user added in step 1.1.2. Enter the password (twice) and select Next >
8. In the Install Directory dialog, select the directory specified in step 1.1.5 (default: C:\DPLSys). This directory will already exist
9. Select Finish
10. Confirm that the new DPLearning package is installed, and is holding 20 components
11. Exit the Transaction Server management console

1.3. Connect IIS to your virtual directory

1. Start Internet Service Manager from then Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack program group
2. Select your Web site in the left hand pane. Select Action -> New -> Virtual directory
3. Enter the name you want to use for your virtual directory (f. ex. DPLOnline) and select Next >
4. Enter (or Browse) the physical path for the virtual directory. This is the path given in step 1.1.4 (default: C:\DPLOnline)
5. Leave Allow Read Access and Allow Script Access checked and press Finish
6. Select your new virtual directory in the left hand pane. Select Action -> Properties
7. Select the Documents tab. Ensure that Enable Default Document is checked, and that default.asp is listed as a default document (add default.asp if it is not listed)
8. Select OK and exit the Internet Information Server console

2. Installing DataPower^® Learning Online on Windows 2000 Server

Prerequisites

To install DataPower Learning Online, the following conditions must be met:

1. The server must run Windows 2000 Server 
2. NOTE! The Internet Information Services component for Windows 2000 must be installed.
3. To achieve the best performance, MS SQL Server 7.0 or higher should be installed (SQL Server 6.5 is also supported).

2.1. Installation process

If you are not using Active Directory on your server:

1. Start Computer Management from the Administrative Tools group. The Administrative tools group is located in Control Panel
2. Select System Tools -> Local Users and Groups -> Users:

3. Add User "DPLearning" by selecting Action -> New User. Clear the checkbox User Must Change Password at Next Logon and select Password Never Expires:

4. Select Create to add the user. Exit Computer Management

If you are using Active Directory on your server:

1. Start Active Directory Users and Computers from the Administrative Tools group
2. Select the Domain -> Users:

3. Add User "DPLearning" by selecting Action -> New -> User:

4. Click Next > to add Password. Check Password never expires:

5. Click Next > to see the information you are about to enter, and click Finish
6. Exit Active Directory Users and Computers

Continue the setup:

1. Insert the DataPower Learning Online Setup CD in the CD-ROM drive and run setup.exe
2. Choose Destination location for the general Web files. This folder will later be connected as a virtual directory using Internet Service Manager:

3. Choose Destination location for the Web components. These components will later be registered in Component Services:

4. Choose Destination location for the Administration program. This program will be used to set up the training web site and add courses and licenses to the system:

5. Select Default language:

6. Do not install ADO 2.1 on Windows 2000. The initial release of Windows 2000 has ADO 2.5 installed as a part of the OS:

7. Choose whether to install MSDE (Do not install MSDE if you are running MS SQL Server 6.5 or higher on your machine)

• If you want to install MSDE, mark the checkbox named Install MSDE:

• Note! If you choose to install MSDE, you must set Sort order and Unicode Locale:

8. Enter Program Manager group name:

9. Start the installation. If MSDE is chosen, it will be installed directly after the DataPower Learning Online System

• Note! The installation of MSDE way take some time

10. If MSDE is chosen, is it recommended to reboot the server after the MSDE installation has finished

• You may start the MSDE service manually, if the server can't be rebooted due to other services running on the server. The MSDE service is listed as SQL Server under Services in Administrative tools

After the setup program has finished, you need to manually register components in Components Services and set up the system to communicate with the database. Follow the next step to do this.

2.2. Register components in Component Services 

1. Start Component Services from the Administrative Tools
2. Select Component Services -> Computers -> My Computer -> COM+ Applications:

3. Select Action -> New -> Application
4. Select Install pre-built application(s):

5. Change Files of type: to MTS Package Files (*.pak), and select the file DPLearning.PAK in the mts folder on the setup CD. Click Open:

6. In the Select Application Files dialog, select Next >
7. In the Set Application Identity dialog, select This user, and enter the DPLearning user added in step 2.1.3. Enter the password (twice) and select Next >:

8. In the Application Installation Options dialog, select Specific directory. Enter the directory specified in step 2.1.6 (default: C:\DPLsys. This directory will already exist) and Select Next >:

9. In the Overwrite files? dialog, click OK:

10. Select Finish
11. Confirm that the new DPLearning package is installed, and is holding 20 components:

12. Exit the Component Services console.

2.3. Connect IIS to your virtual directory

1. Start Internet Services Manager from the Administrative Tools group
2. Select your Web site in the left hand pane:

3. Select Action -> New -> Virtual directory
4. In the Virtual Directory Creation dialog, enter the alias you want to use for your virtual directory (f. ex. "DPLOnline") and select Next >:

5. Enter (or Browse) the physical path for the virtual directory. This is the path given in step 2.1.5 (default: C:\DPLOnline), and select Next >:

6. In the Access Permissions dialog leave Read and Run scripts (such as ASP) checked and press Next >:

7. Select Finish
8. Select your new virtual directory in the left hand pane. Select Action -> Properties
9. Select the Documents tab. Ensure that Enable Default Document is checked, and that default.asp is listed as a default document (add "default.asp" if it is not listed). Select OK and exit the Internet Information Services console:

3. Creating the database 

You will need to create a database for the DataPower Learning Online training system. 

• If you are using the Microsoft Data Engine (MSDE) or a SQL Server dedicated for DP Learning Online, follow the steps below
• For a SQL Server hosting several systems you might want to follow the steps outlined in this document.

1. Start WinAdmin from the DataPower Learning Online programs group
2. Supply name for DataPower Learning virtual directory, (given in step 1.3.3 or 2.3.3) in the welcome dialog:    

• Note! If you are going to run DataPower Learning Online from the root directory of your website, leave this field empty.

3. In the Data Link Properties dialog, enter the Server name for the server where the SQL Server is installed. If you are using MSDE this is the name of the server where you are  installing DPLOnline

• Select Use a specific user name and password, and type in logon information for the SQL Server account that will be used for DPLOnline. If you are using MSDE you may use "sa" as user name and select the blank password check box
• If required type in a name for the new DPLOnline Database, or accept the default name. The database should not exist if this is the initial setup of the system. (If you press the Test Connection button you will receive an error message. This is correct (by design), because the database will not exist at this time)

4. Click OK
5. In the New Database dialog accept or modify the defaults for file location and size for the new database

• One Course Title consumes typically less than 5 MB of database capacity
• Each user consumes approximately 2 KB of database capacity for each course he/she is using

6. Select OK and the database will be created and initialized
7. In the New Admin dialog supply given Organization ID and fill in user data for the DPLOnline administrator user account

• This user is the initial user of the DPLOnline system, and will have permissions to administer courses, course-sets and reports in DPLOnline

8. In the Organization tab supply name and address information of your organization:

9. Select the Category tab to supply from 1 to 5 information categories that the users will be prompted for upon registration (f. ex. Department, Skill level etc.). This information will also be used for administration and reporting purposes:

4. importing content

1. If not already running, start WinAdmin from the DataPower Learning Online programs group and log in using the user created in step 3.9.
2. On the Content tab press Import to import supplied courses:

3. Select to import some of all course(s) from the list box in the Import dialog and press Import to copy data and files:

4. On the Content tab press Update License to apply the supplied license file:

• Get the path to the DPLicense.dat file by pressing the ... button:

• Select DPLicense.dat from the installation disk and click Open:

• Select OK:

5. Select Exit

5. Test the system

1. Start your browser, and specify the URL where DataPower Learning Online should be found

• This will typical be "http://webserver/virtualdirectory" (In this case "http://pcjofw2k/dplonline")
•  You should now get the DataPower Learning Online Welcome screen in your browser.

1. Enter "system.asp" at the end of the current Address in the browser's address field to open the system.asp document. (In this case "http://pcjofw2k/dplonline/system.asp")
2. Enter "info" as both username and password and select OK
3. You should now get some system information about your site. 
4. Ensure that Site ID to INI match is OK (ref 3.2). If not, edit the file dplearning.ini (found in the Windows directory [winnt]) as requested.
5. Ensure that the Database information is given. This proves that your database is connected properly.

6. Build course sets

A course set is a container for courses. You build course sets to mach the different training needs for different groups in your organization. You should plan which groups of courses will be suitable to match your training goals, and build course sets to match these groups of courses.

1. Navigate your browser to the DataPower Learning Online URL entered in step 5.1. (In this case "http://pcjofw2k/dplonline")
2. Log in as administrator with username and password given in step 3.6
3. In the menu to the left, select Administration (NOR: Administrasjon)
4. Select Course sets (NOR: Kurssett). No course sets should exist at this time
5. Select New course set (NOR: Nytt kursssett)
6. Give the course set a descriptive name and select which course(s) should be added to the course set by clicking on one or several of the listed courses. 
7. Press Register (NOR: Registrer).
8. Take a note of the numeric course set ID of the newly generated course set.
9. Repeat step 5-7 if you wish to build more course sets.

7. Build access key (NOR: registreringsnøkkel)

• When your users are ready to start their training, the first thing they have to do is register for the DataPower Learning Online training system. To do this, they need an access key (NOR: Registreringsnøkkel). 
• The access key holds information about which organization they belong to, and which courses they will gain access to (through the course set ID). 
• A user may gain access to one or several course set(s), and one course set may hold one or several courses. Here is how to build an access key:

1. In the Administration screen, select Access key (NOR: Registreringsnøkkel).
2. Type in the course set ID to identify which course set this access key will give access to. 

• You may enter several course set ID's using "-" as delimiter.

3. Press OK, and your access key will be presented. Present this access key to the group of users targeted for this course set.
4. Repeat step 1-3 for each access key you will need.

• Since the administrator account is generated using the WinAmin application, this admin user is initially not connected to any course in the system. 
• If you want the administrator to gain access to one ore more course sets, select Users (NOR: Brukere) in the administration menu, select Show list (NOR: Vis liste), select the administrator by clicking on the Lastname field. 
• In the User information screen, enter the appropriate course set(s) and update the user account.

You are now ready to start using DataPower Learning Online in your organization. Distribute the appropriate access keys (NOR: Registreringsnøkler) to your users including information on which URL to use, and they should be able to register and start training.

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