Just how quick and easy is it to have your own grid of Aware Service Hosts at your disposal?  Lets walk through the process and see.

Step 1 - Aware Server Installation

Locate your installation directory, and run the AwareSetup.exe

Accept the license agreement, and you will advance to the option screen.

Choose your option

Today we will walk through the Aware Core Server install.  The core server, as it implies, is the main server for an environment.  To the right on the screen you will notice the components that get installed during the process, and as you select different options, that list changes.  So select the Aware Core Server option and click next.

Service Setup

Either use an existing account that you know will have proper access, or create a new account.  All of the installed services will us this account to run.  The key to the services account setting is that each machine should use the same account.  Once you enter your account information, click next.

Repository Setup

The repository is where Aware Server stores all of its configuration, manifests (services, business processes, asp.net web sites), provision policies, audit logs, etc...  You simply need to point to an existing instance of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 with valid credentials to create a new database.  Enter the information, and click validate.  If all looks well, click next.

Shared Directory

For business process state (workflow state) a shared directory is used.  Ensure that the credentials you used (service setup) has access to the directory you use and then click next.

Aware Environment

The installation creates a "default" environment for you, or you can easily import an existing environment.  For our example we will just use the default environment, so just click next.

Complete Installation

The last step in the wizard is a confirmation screen listing the steps that will executed to complete your installation.  Click "start" to complete your installation.  As the installation completes each step, you will see that step change to a green check mark.

Within a few moments, all actions should have green check marks.  Click "close".  We are now ready to start the Aware Server Enterprise Manager.

Step 2 - Start the Aware Serve Enterprise Manager

Click "start" on your taskbar, and then click on the "Gridgistics Aware" folder.  You will find the Aware Enterprise Manager shortcut.

When you start the Aware Enterprise Manager you may notice the following screen.

Aware Server security is relies on the groups derived from the environment name, hence in our case we did not already have the above groups.  We will need to add these groups, and then add the account we used during the installation to the newly created groups.  Regardless of not having the groups, you should still see the newly installed environment.  We will just need to create the groups and add our account to that group before we continue (so we have security setup to manage our environment).

And now you have it, Aware Server installed and ready to go.