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Installation, Deployment, and Upgrade
Installing HCL Discover involves planning and preparing your environment, installing and configuring prerequisite software, obtaining the HCL Discover installation files, and running the HCL Discover installer.
Installation and Deployment Manual
Preparing to install the software
Preparing to install HCL Discover involves assessing your current IT resources, determining and cataloging the HCL Discover component-to-server assignments, installing and configuring prerequisite software and preparing the servers and your network environment to accept HCL Discover.
Preparing the installation environment
You must prepare your environment to accept the HCL Discover installation.
Configuring the network interface cards (NICs)
Before you install HCL Discover Network Capture Application server or HCL Discover, configure the settings on your network adapter.

Installation, Deployment, and Upgrade
Installing HCL Discover involves planning and preparing your environment, installing and configuring prerequisite software, obtaining the HCL Discover installation files, and running the HCL Discover installer.
- Installation and Deployment Manual
  - Planning the installation
    Planning for HCL Discover before introducing its software into your enterprise information system helps ensure that the system you implement meets your needs.
  - Preparing to install the software
    Preparing to install HCL Discover involves assessing your current IT resources, determining and cataloging the HCL Discover component-to-server assignments, installing and configuring prerequisite software and preparing the servers and your network environment to accept HCL Discover.
    - Installing and configuring prerequisite software
      Before you install and configure HCL Discover, you must install and configure the prerequisite software.
    - Preparing the installation environment
      You must prepare your environment to accept the HCL Discover installation.
      - Preparing the domain
        You must perform several tasks to prepare the domain.
      - Preparing the network environment
        The network environment involves the network infrastructure including ports, email administration, and replay server.
      - Configuring the network interface cards (NICs)
        Before you install HCL Discover Network Capture Application server or HCL Discover, configure the settings on your network adapter.
  - Installing HCL Discover
    Installing HCL Discover involves obtaining the installation files for HCL Discover and then running the product installers.
  - ELK Installation
    To access the Kibana Dashboard and the Elastic search, you must install the ELK RPM.
  - Ctree Server License constraints
    The Ctree Server License constraint enforces the processor affinity mask of DB processes to four CPUs or lesser.
  - Adding new events and modifying associated dimensions for UAParser
    Once the Discover Portal is up and running, add new events and modify associated dimensions, related to UAParser, by executing the following steps on the Discover Portal server:
- Discover Network Capture Application Manual
- HCL Discover Session Archiving Installation Guide
  As you prepare for an installation, you need to gather some items, review hardware and software requirements, and then you can perform the installation.
- Discover Upgrade Manual

Configuring the network interface cards (NICs)

Before you install HCL Discover Network Capture Application server or HCL Discover, configure the settings on your network adapter.

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Configure the following network adapter settings in your operating system for use in your network environment:

Host Name
DNS Servers
IP Address (IP address for management on the DNCA and one IP address for the HCL Discover All-in-one server)
Subnet Mask
Default Gateway

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