Locally Installing Innovator

You can install Innovator clients and servers using an installation file.

Starting the Installation

Both potential purchasers and customers of Innovator can download the installation files for Innovator in the customer area.

The following paragraph describes the installation for the supported Microsoft Windows operating system.

To start the installation of Innovator, download the InnovatorEnterprise-en-US.exe installation file from the customer area of the MID website and start it.

Installation Wizard

The installation file sets up the Innovator installation. The wizard checks whether Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio 2015-2022 (64 is installed and installs it from the internet if it is not already installed. Internet access is required for this.

The Closeddefault installation paths are the same as the standard Windows paths.

  • Program directory: %PROGRAMFILES%\Innovator\16.0

    (installation destination)

  • License directory: %PUBLIC%\Documents\Innovator\16.0\inolic

    Corresponds to the INOLIC environment variable

  • Project directory: %PUBLIC%\Documents\Innovator\16.0\inoprj

    Corresponds to the INOPRJ environment variable

  • Settings: %PROGRAMDATA%\Innovator\16.0 (All Users)

    Corresponds to the INODIR environment variable

  • User-specific settings: %APPDATA%\Innovator\16.0

    Corresponds to the INOHOME environment variable

Space Requirement

The Computing space requirement dialog appears, if somewhat briefly. This analyses the installation files and certain prerequisites.

General License Agreement

You need to agree with MID GmbH's license agreement in the License Agreement dialog to be able to continue with the installation.
Read the MID GmbH license agreement and activate the check box to agree with it. Finally, click on Next.

Selecting Setup Type

Specify the installation directory and scope of installation with all the product functions you wish to be able to use in the Choose Setup Type dialog.

This dialog suggests an installation directory; this is the Windows default directory for programs %ProgramFiles%\Innovator\16.0 for a first time installation.

To change the target directory, click on the Browse… button and set the installation directory for the program files in the Change destination folder dialog.

To choose a predefined installation scenario, click on the Complete, Typical Client or Typical Server buttons.

  • Complete starts the installation of all Innovator components, except for the Offline Help to the selected directory. This gives you access to practically all program functions.

    This type of installation is suitable for single user installation and evaluation.

    If you do not have online access, then please install the Offline Help.

  • Client installs all client components. You can use is for editing Innovator models. Administrative tools are also installed; server components are not.

    This type of installation is only suitable in conjunction with a server installation in the network.

  • Server installs all components required for a server computer.

    This type of installation is suitable for a server installation in the network.

  • Custom enables you to choose which product features to install and define all the installation parameters yourself. The default settings correspond to the Complete installation type.

    The Environment Settings and Product Features dialogs only appear if you choose the Custom installation type.

Environment Settings

The Environment Settings dialog only appears if you chose the Custom installation type.

License Server

A license server manages the Innovator licensing. In order to communicate with this license server, each Innovator application needs the following information:

  • The address or name of the computer that the license server is running on

  • Port number used for communication between server and local computer

    Note

    The port number must be a value between 1024 and 64000

The information must always be added in the form <License server host name>.<Port number>, i.e. the different parts of information are separated by a point.

  • Single User Operation

    If Innovator is to be operated without a network, then the address of the local computer (localhost 127.0.0.1) must be confirmed as the name in this dialog. Otherwise, the local computer name may cause problems.

    You must specify a port number within the given range.

  • Network Operation with TCP/IP

    Using TCP/IP, computers are identified using both an address and a name. The name of the computer where the license server is to be run or is already running, as configured under TCP/IP, must be entered as the license server name.

    A port number that is not being used by other programs must be entered after the dot. Available numbers are usually values greater than 5000.

The license server entry corresponds to the INOHOST environment variable.

Shared Workgroup Directory

Innovator stores settings and certain files (e.g. parameter files and Java files for engineering actions) in a local directory %PROGRAMDATA%\Innovator\16.0 as standard.

Innovator also offers the alternative option of using a shared network directory to carry out central specifications and to simplify updates, since they can be carried out centrally.

Use the content of a locally-installed %PROGRAMDATA%\Innovator\16.0 directory as a basis when creating such a directory and then change the common settings to be used.

Note

All users must have read rights for the workgroup directory. The user making the changes to the settings in the parameter files etc. must have write rights in the workgroup directory. All users of a workgroup directory need to be in the same network and use the same license server.

Network type information corresponds to the INODIR environment variables.

The \Innovator\16.0\ path is created below the Windows environment variables path %APPDATA% by default for user-specific settings. This path corresponds to the INOHOME environment variable.

Directories for Model Repository and License Repository

Innovator stores model repositories in the %PUBLIC%\Documents\Innovator\16.0\inoprj local directory as default.

The project directory entry corresponds to the INOPRJ environment variable.

Innovator stores the license repository in the %PUBLIC%\Documents\Innovator\16.0\inolic local directory as default.

The license directory entry corresponds to the INOLIC environment variable.

You can set others as the default directories.

Type of Installation

With the type of installation, you specify whether Innovator is to be installed for the current user or for all users of this computer. The entries for the Innovator program group and Windows registration are then stored in the respective directory.

How to proceed

  1. Only change the name of the license server computer if the license server shouldn't run on the computer which you are about to install Innovator on.

  2. If you want to specify a shared working directory in the network, activate the Use a shared working directory check box and enter the corresponding network path.

    These files are then not installed locally.

  3. To set whether Innovator should be available for the current or all users of the machine, activate the respective check box.

  4. Confirm the Environment Settings dialog with Next.

Product Features

The Product Features dialog only appears if you chose the Custom installation type.

The structure of the Innovator program features appears in this dialog for you to select. For each program features you can specify whether

  • it is installed on the local hard drive
  • it is not installed if it is not needed
  • it is not to be installed.

Innovator has the following product functions:

Innovator: General DLLs

  • Editions: Model editor; beamer, DMN import/export, Excel import/export and replace in specification plug-ins

    • Innovator for Business AnalystsInnovator for Business Analysts: Activity-based costing, BPMN import/export and text-to-element plug-ins

    • Innovator for Enterprise ArchitectsInnovator for Enterprise Architects: ArchiMate import/export plug-in

    • Innovator for Information Architects: BI, Diagram Layouter, Dimension Manager, Dimension/Hierarchy Export and Input/Output Specification plug-ins

    • Innovator for Software Architects: OpenAPI plug-ins

  • Administrative clients (administrative tools)

    • Administration: Administration program tool

    • Configuration editor: Configuration editor tool

  • Server (license and model servers)

    • Model servers: Model servers with model templates in INOPRJ directory

    • Agents: Agent for maintaining and managing all models in the Version Management

    • License server: License server with bus and hub

    • Notify: Notification service

  • Transformation: Transformer for data migration from previous Innovator versions

To change the installation target folder, click on the topmost Innovator node, click on Browse…, and set the installation directory in the Change destination folder dialog.

Completion Message

The Completion dialog informs you once installation is complete. You can define whether you want to display the ReadMe file after the installation and whether you want to start Innovator immediately. The ReadMe file contains important system information about using Innovator.

Note

Before you can work with an unrestricted version, you first need to activate the Innovator products you have bought by loading a license file.

Note

To use services with Windows, further actions must still be carried out and certain precautions must be taken.

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