New Enterprise install

[OldSkoolSkater]

We are upgrading from SI to Enterprise in the near future. Is it advisable to install the web server onto the same physical server as the main body of enterprise?
The server I have in mind is a quad processor 550Mhz with 2.5GB ram - should be enough!
Also, am I correct in presuming that reports can be imported from SI but all permissions are lost, and that group securities are not transferable between the two?

Cheers

Steve

 

[icytrue]

Ideally the web server would sit on a different box, but it is nothing unusual to have the web server and the CE components on the same box - it is all a matter of resource and your spec is fairly hefty so should be okay (depends of course on numbers of users, report size, report qty, report freq etc).

Reports can be imported, users and groups can be imported. The following is from CE help (which I am sure you have seen but it does confirm your question):
Crystal Enterprise enforces security through object rights, which differ from the user rights used within Seagate Info. Consequently, the Crystal Import Wizard does not import any of the folder security that is set up within the Seagate Info environment.

"If you transfer reports from Seagate Info to Crystal Enterprise, the rights associated with the report are not transferred, only the ownership. If the owner of a report is the Administrators group, the Administrators group will have Full Control access to it. If the owner of the report is not an administrator, the report will be transferred and the View On Demand access mode will be associated with the report."

hth
Icytrue

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[rhinok]

If you don't already have it, see if you can get the CE Sizing Guide from your Crystal Decisions account representative. They should send it to you giving that you're going to purchase CE from them.

The sizing guide is important because it provides more detail about the limits associated to each application server within CE, per processor. If you have a Quad processor box, you can actually install multiple web component servers on the same box (they have to have different ports, fyi).

Your setup is similar to mine. I have a WINT4 Quad 550Mhz box with 1Gb Ram (the minimum RAM @ 256Mb/processor). On this box I have multiple services as follows:[ol][li]4 Page Servers[/li][li]4 Report (Job) Servers[/li][li]4 Web Component Servers[/li][/ol]All other servers are single servers. Soon I will upgrade my server's processors and RAM as we are adding more users, but for the time being, the server works very well for our needs.