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Humly Control Panel Installation - Windows

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HCP can be installed on Windows Server 2012 R2 and later Microsoft Windows versions, and on Ubuntu Linux 16.0.4 LTS or later LTS versions.

The Installation procedure depends on the selected operation system.

Windows Installation

Windows Installation Prerequisites

  • Windows Server 2012 R2 or later servers versions
  • Static IP address is needed for the HRD devices to connect to later
  • Accessible and whitelisted through the firewall ports for  HTTP and HTTPS, the default ports are 3000 and 3002
  • A user with sudo permission
  • Accessible booking system (e.g. Office 365) over HTTPS port TCP 443
  • Access to NTP Server over port UDP 123

Installation Steps

In this part of the guide, we will use Windows Server 2016 as our operating system, however the same steps can be used on all supported windows versions.

  1. It is highly recommended to update your windows using windows update service, this will make sure the proper .Net and build packages are included is the OS. 
  2.  Download the latest Humly Control Panel version and copy the installation file to your server
  3. Unzip HCP Installer file using your prefered tool, we recommend 7zip, the extracted files should look like thisinstaller1.png
  4. Start the automatic installer “setup.exe” which will handle the installation of all prerequisites 
  5. Accept the license agreement for installing MongoDB installer5.png
  6. Accept the license agreement for installing Nodejs installer6.png
  7. Based on your operating system, Visual C++ "2015-2019" Run-time Libraries (x64) might need to be installed, the installer will detect this, if prompted to press install button installer7.png
  8. Accept the license agreement and press install installer8.png
  9. Based on your OS, restart might be required after installing  Visual C++ "19" Runtime Libraries (x64), please restart your windows, and run the “setup.exe” file again and accept the license agreement for MongoDB and Nodejs
  10. After the installation of the prerequisites, Humly Control Panel installation should start, accept the license agreement and press next installer10.png
  11. The prerequisite window should appear to confirm which packages are should be installed before installing HCP, in our case, everything is installed by the setup.exe installer installer11.png
  12. Select the installation path and the user permissions and press next installer12.png
  13. Next up is to create credentials for the Mongo database. It is the database which stores the meetings, users and Humly Control Panel settings. If you want to install the database on an external mongo db server, please refer to the document on installing the HCP database on external mongodb server.
    installer13.png
  14. Now the installer will start the process of Humly Control Panel installation, this might take several minutes, please wait until the installation is done.installer14.png
  15. When the installation is finished, you should see the below window, press close installer15.png
  16. Verify that HRM service is running under services.mscinstaller16.png
  17. Now you should be able to access the HCP via browser using http://localhost:3000, or from another PC via http://<IP or FQDN>:3000
  18. HCP is ready now for the booking system configuration installer_18.png
  19. Now the server is ready to connect with the booking system

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