Setup and Administration - Pulse v2.0

Overview

pulse™ has been designed to be simple to setup up and to require little or no ongoing administration. Setup involves downloading, unpacking and running a pulse™ server, stepping through an online setup wizard to configure required details. The vast majority of administration tasks are available to users with administrative privileges via the pulse™ web interface.

Setup

For a quick guide to setting up a pulse™ server, refer to the Getting Started Guide. More thourough details of various setup tasks are provided in the following sections:

Section	Description
Obtaining Pulse Packages	How to obtain a copy of the pulse™ server.
Installation	How to unpack and install a pulse™ package.
Setup Wizard	Configuring your pulse™ server using the setup wizard.
Server Commands	Describes scripts available to control your pulse™ server.
Running as a Service	Describes how to install pulse™ as a Windows service or Unix daemon.
Database Migration	Describes how to migrate between databases, in particular from the embedded database to a production one.
Server Configuration File	Describes how to configure the startup settings for your pulse™ server.
Upgrading	How to upgrade from an earlier version of pulse™.
Changing the Web Application Port	Steps required to change the port the web application listens on.
Configuring SSL	How to configure pulse™ to use HTTPS.
License Management	Viewing and updating license information.
System Properties	Available properties for modifying pulse™ behaviour and information about how to set them.
Migrating from 1.2.x to 2.0	A step by step discussion on migrating your 1.2.x installation to the new 2.0 platform

Administration

Server administration tasks are performed using the "administration" section of the web interface. To view the server-wide settings in this section, a user requires administration privileges (other users only have access to project and agent configuration). Server-wide settings asks are divided into four sections (presented as tabs in the interface):

Section	Description
Settings	Includes all server settings, such as logging and SMTP server configuration.
Users	Used to add/remove users, and edit user details.
Groups	Used to add/remove groups and to edit group privileges and membership.
Plugins	Used to view, control and install plugins.