I am trying to upgrade our installation to a distributed system and upgrade from 8.5a to 8.7d. After three days of effort, i am back to aquare on as i found out that 8.7d requires a domain account and that it wont run on a server that is a domain controller. This has put us in a bind because we are a Unix shop and the only reason we have windows servers is for Webtrends. Has anyone run into this situation and have any recommendations for any workarounds and/or installing a domain controller

We ran into similar problem when jumping from 8.1 to 8.5 and we are not a windows shop. So, we created a windows domain (PDC) on Mac OS X Server 10.5 (OpenLDAP+Samba) and authenticated windows 2003 server as admin user (who can read/write to domain) and configured to be run as webtrend user (during installation).

that's great. I will try the same on Solaris.
thanks for the info

jbalakri - any word on how this worked out for you?

I haven't implemented it yet. I just finished installing the necessary pieces. will update the post as and when i make progress.

JB

Both the documentation and my local installation shows a domain is NOT required. Windows authentication can work with computername\user as well as domain\user.

In the 8.7d service pack 1 release notes it says "
Installing Webtrends using a workgroup user instead of a domain user requires specifying the computer name
If you install Webtrends using a workgroup user instead of a domain user, specify the computer name rather than the name of the workgroup when configuring SQL connection information during Webtrends installation. Specifying the workgroup name will cause installation to fail."

interesting. I was told by a webtrends rep that a domain is required.

the workgroup installation will not work in a distributed installation. at least that's the alert i got when i was trying a test installation.

Just wanted to update the post that i was able to upgrade to distributed architecture in version 8.7d successfully.

1. installed samba +openldap on a solaris server
2. added the primary Windows 2k3 server to the domain.
3. upgraded the 2k3 from 8.5a to 8.7d
4. added a 64 bit Windows 2k8 server to the domain
5. installed 8.7d analysis engine on the 2k8 server.

The only hiccup was a problem on the 2k8 server complaining during 8.7d install that the analysis_data_capture was not a UNC path and turned out the problem was the license file that wasn't showing the analysis_data_capture path for me to change it to UNC on the primary server.