Installing Altair SLC and Altair Analytics Workbench on Windows systems.

IanBD
IanBD
Altair Employee
edited May 2 in Altair RapidMiner

 

Prerequisites

Altair SLC and Altair Analytics Workbench are supported on either Windows 10 and later running on x86_64 hardware, or Windows Server 2016 and later running on x86_64 hardware.

You will need to have administrative access to install Altair SLC or Altair Analytics Workbench.

There are no other prerequisites.

Installation

Before starting to install Altair SLC or Altair Analytics Workbench,
ensure that your copy of Windows has the latest updates and service
packs applied.

Altair SLC and Altair Analytics Workbench are provided as separate installation programs which are available from the Altair One marketplace at www.altairone.com.You will require a username and password to access the download section of the site. The installation programs are:

  • altairanalyticsworkbench-<version>-windows-x86_64.msi
  • altairslc-<version>-windows-x86_64.msi

Where <version> is the release version of the installation program.

  • To use Altair Analytics Workbench only, for example to connect to a remote installation of the Altair SLC engine, you require the altairanalyticsworkbench-<version>-windows-x86_64.msi installation program.
  • To use Altair Analytics Workbench and the Altair SLC engine on the same device, you require both installation programs. Ensure that you have the same release version for both installation programs.
  • To use the Altair SLC engine only, for example on a Windows Server, you require the altairslc-<version>-windows-x86_64.msiinstallation program.

Once the required installation (.msi) program is downloaded, double-click the file, read and accept the EULA and follow the on-screen instructions. Each installation program must be run independently.

Use of the Altair SLC engine is controlled by means of a license which must be applied after installation. If only Altair Analytics Workbench is installed on a workstation, that workstation will not require a license.

Appling a license

A license is required to run Altair SLC, this can be either Altair Units or a wpskey license file.

Altair Units are served from either a hosted by Altair (HHWU) or an on-site the Altair License Manager (ALM); a wpskey license file is downloaded from the my account section of the World Programming website.

If a workstation has both Altair SLC and Altair Analytics Workbench installed, the license can be applied through Workbench. For more information see the Altair Analytics Workbench User Guide in your installation, or available from the Altair community documentation site (https://help.altair.com).

Where only Altair SLC is installed on your device:

  • If using the Altair hosted license server.
    1. Log in to your Altair One account.
    2. In your user profile page, obtain an Altair One authorization code for the device hosting Altair SLC.

      Note that this code has a limited usage time.

    3. On the device hosting Altair SLC, you may wish to set this environment variable (for all users of SLC) to force Altair One managed units to be used. 
      SET ALM_HHWU=TRUE
    4. On the same device, run the following command: 
      almutil -a1auth -code <auth-code>

      Where <auth-code> is the Altair One authorization code. Note that if you are applying the license to ALL users on a Windows Server machine then you should run the command in an administrator CMD window and add the '-system' parameter:

      almutil -a1auth -code <auth-code> -system

      This command downloads a configuration file to the default location of C:\ProgramData\Altair\altair_hostedhwu.cfg.

  • If using an on-site license manager.
    1. On the device hosting Altair SLC, specify the ALM_HHWU environment variable: 
      SET ALM_HHWU=FALSE
    2. On the same device, set the ALTAIR_LICENSE_PATH environment variable: 
      SET ALTAIR_LICENSE_PATH=<port>@&lt;host>

      Where:

      • <port> is the port on the which the license server communicates.
      • <host> is the hostname of the license server
  • If using a wpskey license file.
    1. Download the license key file from the World Programming website.
    2. On the device hosting Altair SLC, enter the following command: 
      <installation-dir>/bin/wps -setinit <wps-key-file>

      Where <wps-key-file> is the path to the downloaded license key file.

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