Isight and SIMULIA Execution Engine Installation

This section describes the basic options for installing Isight Desktop, the SIMULIA Execution Engine (SEE) server, and the SIMULIA Execution Engine Station.

For complete information about configuring Isight and the SIMULIA Execution Engine, see the following guides:

Root (superuser) privileges are not required to install Isight on Linux, and it is recommended that you install Isight as a non-root user. However, root permissions are usually needed beforehand to grant the installing user write access to the installation directory; for example, in /opt/SIMULIA/Isight.

As a non-root user, you can install Isight in any directory to which you have write access. If an administrator creates a directory called /opt/SIMULIA/Isight and makes it writable, a non-root user can also install in /opt.

This page discusses:

Isight Desktop

Installer Option Definition
Installation directory

Choose a base directory/folder for the installation. The recommended installation directory on Windows is C:\SIMULIA\Isight\2023\.

Important: Do not install Isight into any folder/directory path containing a space, including C:\Program Files\. The application will not work correctly in this case.
Documentation configuration options

Choose option 'Enter a URL for served documentation' to connect Isight to the SIMULIA HTML documentation.

Enter a URL for served documentation

If you choose to connect Isight to the SIMULIA HTML documentation you must specify the documentation installation NodeJS URL for context-sensitive help to work. The hostname must be a fully qualified host name (for example host.domain1.xxx.com). Use this format to specify the URL: 

http://<HOSTNAME>:<NodeJS_server_HTTP_port_number>

You can locate the actual NodeJS server port number for the documentation installation in the following file: 

<documentation_install_dir>\StartDocumentationUsingJavaSearch.txt
Server Host Name

The host name of the computer running the SIMULIA Execution Engine server application, if you are using the SIMULIA Execution Engine. If the SIMULIA Execution Engine will be accessed from computers in multiple network domains (for example, domain1.xxx.com and domain2.xxx.com), you must specify the fully qualified host name (for example, host.domain1.xxx.com).

Server Port Number Port number on which the SIMULIA Execution Engine application is running on the server.
License server If you have already installed Abaqus/CAE and specified your license server information in the same Suite Installer session, Isight will automatically use the same license server. In this case you need not enter anything here.

Note: Installation will fail on Windows if the media unload directory names and/or the installation path exceeds certain limits, because of the overall limit of 260 characters imposed by Windows. During installation or unzip operations, subdirectories and files will be created in the specified directories. The longest full pathname length must be limited to well within the 260 characters limit. Therefore, both unload and installation paths should be kept reasonably short to guarantee that this limit is not reached.

You can use Isight Desktop in Standalone Mode or have the installer create a connection profile (.cpr file) to connect Isight Desktop to a SIMULIA Execution Engine server.

If the Isight Desktop application will use a SIMULIA Execution Engine, it must have a connection profile specific to the application server getting used. The .cpr file must be located in the following directory: 

<isight_install_dir>/config/

An initial configuration profile named standalone.cpr is provided for standalone Isight operation. Additional connection profiles can be created later by using the Edit Logon Profile tool. See Isight | User's Guide | Understanding SIMULIA Execution Engine Options | Creating a SIMULIA Execution Engine Connection Profile for more details.

A graphics card is not required to use the Text User Interface (TUI) installer for Isight.

Note: To change the help connections for Isight, see Installation, Licensing & Configuration | Isight Configuration | Configuration | Configuring the Isight Online Documentation.

SIMULIA Execution Engine Server

Installer Option Definition
Please enter a string to identify the new installation You can use this option to keep track of different installations and hot fix (fix pack) versions.
Installation directory

Choose a base directory/folder for the installation.

Important: Do not install into any folder/directory path containing a space, including C:\Program Files\. The application will not work correctly in this case.
Launch TomEE configuration utility Choose this option if you want to run the SEE server on the included TomEE application server. Skip this option if you plan to use your own WebSphere application server.
License server If you have already installed Abaqus/CAE and specified your license server information in the same Suite Installer session, SEE will automatically use the same license server. In this case you need not enter anything here.
Note: If you install the SIMULIA Execution Engine in TUI mode, do not enable launching of TomEE Configuration Utility; this will start the GUI-based utility and the installation will not be completely text-based.

SIMULIA Execution Engine Station

Installer Option Definition
Please enter a string to identify the new installation You can use this option to keep track of different installations and hot fix (fix pack) versions.
Installation directory

Choose a base directory/folder for the installation.

Important: Do not install into any folder/directory path containing a space, including C:\Program Files\. The application will not work correctly in this case.
Enter the following details to configure access to the SEE Server

Indicate whether your SEE server is running on a TomEE or WebSphere application server.

Specify the Server Host Name and Server Port for the SEE server application.

This information is used to create the .cpr connection profile file that will connect this station to the SEE server.