LabAdvisor IT-AdminGuide EN PDF
LabAdvisor IT-AdminGuide EN PDF
IT Administrator's Guide
This manual contains information for IT Administrators of the Agilent Lab Advisor.
1 Server Installation
This chapter describes how to install the Agilent Lab Advisor on a Windows Server
2012 R2 or Windows Server 2016 or 2019 system.
2 Network Licensing
This chapter describes the licensing scheme for networked systems and gives
instructions on how to set it up.
3 Authentication
This chapter describes the authentication options in Lab Advisor and gives
instructions on how to set up authentication.
1 Server Installation 5
Server Installation 6
2 Network Licensing 7
3 Authentication 10
Authentication Overview 11
Setting Up Authentication 13
Server Installation 6
This chapter describes how to install the Agilent Lab Advisor on a Windows
Server 2012 R2 or Windows Server 2016 or 2019 system.
Server Installation
You can install Lab Advisor on a Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows Server
2016 or 2019 system and make it available for use on client systems.
1 Install Lab Advisor on the Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows Server 2016
or 2019 PC as described in the section Hard Drive Installation of the Agilent
Lab Advisor User Manual.
2 Install the role Remote Desktop Services on the Windows Server 2012 R2 or
Windows Server 2016 or 2019 server.
3 Publish the Lab Advisor installation on the Windows Server 2012 R2 or
Windows Server 2016 or 2019 server.
4 Create an RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) file for the Lab Advisor installation.
5 Distribute the RDP file to all client systems.
This chapter describes the licensing scheme for networked systems and gives
instructions on how to set it up.
For Lab Advisor A.02.10 and later, the license scheme operates on the principle
of one license per device, irrespective of the number of Lab Advisor installations.
A single M8550A Advanced license in combination with add-on packs can be
used simultaneously on multiple Lab Advisor installations. Licenses can be either
typed in on any individual Lab Advisor installation or deployed via Data Sharing. In
the case of Data Sharing, the licenses are stored in a network folder, and every
Lab Advisor installation that has access to the folder can use the licenses.
With the 1-year advanced license M8556A (per-user license, licenses an unlimited
number of hardware modules) Module License sharing is not appropriate and
therefore not possible.
Mixing per-user Unlimited licenses with the per module licenses will lead to
NOT E unforeseen problems in conjunction with Data Sharing.
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Module = Licence
The basic requirements are one Advanced license (for the initial setup) with as
many licenses as there are devices in the laboratory. All Lab Advisor installations
with Basic licenses in the network will be automatically upgraded to the
Advanced license when configuring the path to the Data Share.
1 In the network, create a folder that can be accessed by all Lab Advisor
installations.
2 Install Lab Advisor on the first PC.
3 Start the Lab Advisor installation that you have just installed and navigate to
Configuration> Licenses.
4 Type the Advanced License key into the License Key field and validate it by
clicking Add.
Repeat the process for any Add-on license packs.
5 Navigate to Configuration> Data Sharing.
6 Click Enable Data Sharing and enter the URL of the network folder that you
created in Step 1 into the Wizard.
7 In Synchronize Folder, select when you want to share instrument data in the
network folder.
Select Never if you do not want to share instrument data.
8 Install Lab Advisor on all other PCs that you want to use,
9 On each PC, navigate to Configuration> Data Sharing and enable Data Sharing
with the URL of the network folder that you created in Step 1 in Data Share
Folder.
Network Licensing is now set up.
Authentication Overview 11
Lab Advisor Roles 12
Setting Up Authentication 13
This chapter describes the authentication options in Lab Advisor and gives
instructions on how to set up authentication.
Authentication Overview
NT Authentication Provider
Users of the NT Authentication Provider are those that are already configured as
Windows users. During configuration, the administrator associates the Roles that
are set up in Lab Advisor (see “Lab Advisor Roles” on page 12 with the Groups
that are set up in the Windows networking environment. The administrator also
decides whether or not users are allowed to edit their Lab Advisor profiles.
The Roles table in the Authentication screen shows the name of each role and its
type.
Setting Up Authentication
5 Mark the check boxes for the privileges you want the new role to have.
6 When you are finished, click Save.
The new role is added to the Roles table, and is marked as User-defined.
3 When you are finished, click Save to save the new user.
The new user is added to the Configured Users table. You can edit a user's
details at any time by selecting the user in the table and clicking Edit.
4 In the General Settings section,
• Mark the Require users to enter a password to log in check box to ensure
that only authorized users with a Username and Password can use Lab
Agilent Lab Advisor revision B.02.09 and later is supplied with the Agilent TCP
Relay Service, which replaces the Agilent Lab Advisor Relay Service. The TCP
Relay Service has wider applicability than the Lab Advisor Relay Service, and
provides a simplified user interface and password security. For full details of the
Agilent TCP Relay Service, see the Agilent TCP Relay Service Administrator's
Guide, available on the installation CD-ROM in the \Support\RelayService folder.
Index
A
administrator 12
authentication 11
C
configuration 11
D
data sharing 13
G
group 11
P
password 11
provider 11, 14
R
role 12, 13
S
server installation 6
standard user 12
T
TCP Relay Service 17
traceability 11
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