Optrix Documentation

To install the ARDI Collaboration Services for a particular site or database, you'll need two installers.

1) The Collaboration Service installer, and
2) The Collaboration Addin installer

The first installs the actual collaboration services - the infrastructure to exchange messages between your various users.

The second installs the addin that allows you to point your ARDI server towards your collaboration server.

The collaboration services are provided by Python, so you will need to ensure that Python 2.7 is installed on the collaboration services machine (this is installed as part of your ARDI server installation).

You will also need several Python modules - most notably Twisted. This is again included with your ARDI server installation.

You will then need to run the ARDI Collaboration Services installer.

Finally, you will need to register collaboration as a service in Windows. This is done via NSSM, which can be downloaded or is again included with the ARDI server installation.

1) Install the addin on the ARDI server machine
2) Go to Administration on the server web interface and choose 'Addons'.
3) Enable the 'Collaboration' addon.
4) Choose 'Collaboration Settings' in the Administration menu
5) Enter the server details for the collaboration server. The default port number is 450.
6) If you are sharing one collaboration server across multiple ARDI systems, you might also need to add a Default Group (usually named after your database).

For example, if you have Plant Alpha and Plant Beta as two separate databases but only want to deploy a single Collaboration server, those users can be given a default group of 'Alpha' and 'Beta', respectively.