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MobileFirst Analytics Server installation guide

MobileFirst Analytics Server is implemented and shipped as a set of two Java™ EE standard web application archive (WAR) files, or one enterprise application archive (EAR) file. Therefore, it can be installed in one of the following supported application servers: WebSphere® Application Server, WebSphere Application Server Liberty, or Apache Tomcat (WAR files only).

• System requirements
  MobileFirst Analytics Server uses an embedded Elasticsearch library for the data store and cluster management. Because it intends to be a highly performant in-memory search and query engine, requiring fast disk I/O, we must follow some production system requirements. In general, you are most likely to run out of memory and disk (or discover that disk I/O is your performance bottleneck) before CPU becomes a problem. In a clustered environment, we want a fast, reliable, co-located cluster of nodes.
• Capacity considerations
  Capacity is the single-most common question. How much RAM do you need? How much disk space? How many nodes? The answer is always: it depends.
• Install MobileFirst Analytics on WebSphere Application Server Liberty
  We can install MobileFirst Analytics on WebSphere Application Server Liberty.
• Install MobileFirst Analytics on Tomcat
  We can install MobileFirst Analytics on Apache Tomcat.
• Install MobileFirst Analytics on WebSphere Application Server
  We can install MobileFirst Analytics on WebSphere Application Server.
• Install MobileFirst Analytics with Ant tasks
  Learn how to use Ant tasks to deploy MobileFirst Analytics to our application server.
• Install MobileFirst Analytics Server V8.0.0 on servers running previous versions
  Although there is no option to upgrade previous versions of the MobileFirst Analytics Server, when you install MobileFirst Analytics Server V8.0.0 on a server that hosted a previous version, some properties and analytics data need to be migrated.
• Configuration guide
  Some configuration for the MobileFirst Analytics Server is required. Some of the configuration parameters apply to a single node, and some apply to the whole cluster, as indicated.

Parent topic: Analytics and Logger