Overview

ENOVIA Live Collaboration is a standards-based, open and scalable system that is able to support the largest, most complex, product lifecycle management deployments. It provides the flexibility to easily configure business processes, user interfaces, and infrastructure options to ensure that they meet your organization's needs. The system enables you to continually drive business process improvements to operate more efficiently using pre-built metrics reports, while virtual workplace capabilities enable ad-hoc collaboration for cross-functional and geographically dispersed teams to securely share product content. All product development content can be routed for review and managed in repeatable workflow business process.

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ENOVIA Live Collaboration (CPF) provides the backbone for product lifecycle management activies within a workgroup, enterprise, or extended enterprise, depending on the organization's needs. ENOVIA Live Collaboration is the underlying support for all ENOVIA products and other Dassault Syst?mes products for Product Lifecycle Management, which include products from CATIA, 3DLive, SIMULIA, and DELMIA product lines. It comprises the following end-user software components:


  • ENOVIA Matrix Navigator (MXN), which is the tool for searching the data objects based on the data model. This application, or its Web-based version ENOVIA Matrix Web Navigator (MXW), is required to administer triggers and other configuration objects for pre-V6 legacy clients. Both the Rich client and Web version Navigator products are included with CPF. The rich client is installed as part of the ENOVIA Studio Modeling Platform Rich Clients distribution for ease of installation. The CPF license entitles your use of this component of ENOVIA Studio Modeling Platform Rich Clients only. The rich client or the Web version of ENOVIA Matrix Navigator can be installed from CD 1: ENOVIA Live Collaboration - Navigator and Administrative Clients.
  • ENOVIA Live Collaboration Server, which is a Java/RMI-based business object server. The Matrix Query Language (MQL) command line executable is included with the server for the purpose of system installation and data/file storage setup functions only. If any other schema configurations are needed, ENOVIA Studio Modeling Platform Rich Clients must be licensed. Note that if distributed file stores are created with Sites and Locations, one or more ENOVIA File Collaboration Server licenses may also be needed. This is installed from CD 2: ENOVIA Live Collaboration - Web Server.
  • ENOVIA Business Process Services, include the capabilities from the Application Exchange Framework, Common Components, Team Central and ENOVIA Business Metrics Module applications. This is installed from CD 3: ENOVIA Live Collaboration - Business Process Services.

The following administrative add-ons are also available:


  • ENOVIA Studio Modeling Platform Rich Clients (DMP) provides the development tools for a company to define and test configurations that are needed in their production ENOVIA system. While ENOVIA offers PLM products that cover many product development business processes, the need for companies to tailor or extend ENOVIA products to meet their specific needs is inevitable, since a company's competitive advantage often requires a unique product development process compared to how other companies execute. Therefore, in order to deploy the ENOVIA system, companies may need to set up an environment that allows them to develop changes to the standard ENOVIA products and test them in conditions that duplicate the actual or projected network and server performance. ENOVIA Studio Modeling Platform Rich Clients are required in order to tailor and configure the production ENOVIA system.

Depending on the options you purchased, you can install the ENOVIA Live Collaboration components and prerequisites separately. This option allows flexibility in choice of third party database and application server. For enterprise and extended enterprise level use, you should evaluate the supported database and application server choices and install the ones that best suit your needs.

Users of ENOVIA Studio Modeling Platform Rich Clients must be valid licensees of the products that are configured and tested. However, a user's production license can also be used with the system installed for ENOVIA Studio Modeling Platform Rich Clients. The ENOVIA Studio Modeling Platform Rich Clients includes the following primary tools:

MQL - the command line interface tool for executing commands and scripts.

System Administration - the tool for managing and configuring data and file storage vaults.

Business Modeler - the tool for managing the data model and its associated business processes including types, attributes, relationships, and the web user interface design.

ENOVIA Matrix Navigator (MXN) - the tool for searching the data objects based on the data model. This application is required to administer triggers and other configuration objects.While ENOVIA Matrix Navigator is installed as part of ENOVIA Studio Modeling Platform Rich Clients for ease of installation, this application license is included in both CPF and DMP. For legacy customers that are still based on thick client deployments vs. Web, the CPF license entitles users to use ENOVIA Matrix Navigator.


  • ENOVIA Studio Federation Toolkit (ADT), which provides documentation and examples for writing custom programs that use the Adaplet libraries available in ENOVIA Live Collaboration.The ENOVIA Studio Federation Toolkit must be licensed for each ENOVIA Studio Modeling Platform Rich Clients environment that requires development of custom connectors with the Adaplet APIs.
  • ENOVIA Studio Customization Toolkit (ADV), which provides documentation and examples for writing custom programs and support web services client development. The ENOVIA Studio Customization Toolkit must be licensed for each ENOVIA Studio Modeling Platform Rich Clients environment that requires development of custom programming to change or extend standard ENOVIA capabilities.
  • ENOVIA File Collaboration Server (FCS), which enables administrators to distribute file data across the enterprise for optimal upload and download performance. A system license is required for each physical site that requires remote file storage. There is no limit to the number of users that can use the ENOVIA File Collaboration Server at a given licensed site, however, all of these users must be licensed to use ENOVIA Live Collaboration, which is the prerequisite.

This guide describes how to perform the following administration tasks for customizing your ENOVIA Live Collaboration system:


  • Configuring ENOVIA Live Collaboration. You can set environment variables according to your system needs. See "Configuring ENOVIA Live Collaboration Server".
  • For ENOVIA Live Collaboration Server installation information, refer to Live Collaboration - Server Installation.
  • Integrating LDAP with external authentication tools. You can control web user access to the ENOVIA Live Collaboration Server. See "Integrating LDAP with External Authentication Tools".
  • Installing Matrix Web Navigator. You use the Matrix Web Navigator to access the ENOVIA Live Collaboration database using popular Web browsers. See "Installing Matrix Web Navigator".
  • Configuring language. You can configure languages settings for these components: ENOVIA Studio Modeling Platform, ENOVIA Matrix Navigator, and ENOVIA Business Process Services. See "Language Support".
  • Configuring a Japanese Web environment. You can configure and deploy the ENOVIA Live Collaboration Server in Japanese. See "Configuring a Japanese Web Environment".

Before You Begin

Review the Program Directory. Each version of ENOVIA Live Collaboration comes with media that includes the program directory for that release. The program directory is a website that organizes all the release information for all Dassault Systèmes products for a given release. It contains information about prerequisites, installation, licensing, product enhancements, general issues, open issues, documentation addenda, and closed issues.

Conventions

When the UNIX installation procedure asks for input, it provides the default value in brackets []. Default values for directory paths are based on the environment, so the examples in this book show empty brackets. To use the default, simply press Enter.

Throughout this guide, certain words appear in capital letters, which indicates that you need to enter specific information for your environment. Below is a description of some of the abbreviations that are used in this manner.


  • INSTALL_PATH: directory in which to install the software. Once installed, this may be referred to as one of:
    • ENOVIAHOME (UNIX) or ENOVIA_INSTALL (Windows) for ENOVIA Studio Modeling Platform, or
    • SERVERHOME (UNIX) or SERVER_INSTALL (Windows) for ENOVIA Live Collaboration Server
  • PLATFORM: local platform architecture. Must be from the appropriate list in "Prerequisites" in the Program Directory for the given release.
  • HOSTNAME: name of the machine that applies to the current question.

Published examples in this guide, including but not limited to scripts, programs, and related items, are intended to provide some assistance to customers by example. They are for demonstration purposes only. It does not imply an obligation for ENOVIA to provide examples for every published platform, or for every potential permutation of platforms/products/versions/etc.