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ega 7.1.7 Personal Edition Installation Guide

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Document: Pega 7.1.7 Personal Edition Installation Guide

Software Version: Pega 7.1.7

Updated: Friday, January 02, 2015


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Contents

Introduction 2

What Gets Installed 2

Prerequisites 3

Installing Personal Edition 4

Using Shortcuts to Start, Log in and Shutdown Personal Edition 11

Starting Personal Edition 11

Logging into Personal Edition 11

Shutting down Personal Edition 11

Uninstalling Personal Edition 13

Personal Edition Installation Guide 1


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Introduction

Pega 7.1.7 provides a learning environment for a single developer. This version of Pega 7 is fully

functional but performance is limited by the speed and memory of your workstation.

Rules and applications you develop with the Personal Edition can be saved and moved to one or more full

Pega 7.1.7 systems or later versions.

What Gets Installed

The Personal Edition installation package includes:

n Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.7.0_71

n PostgreSQL 9.1.14

n Apache Tomcat 7.0.56

n Pega 7.1.7 Personal Edition



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Installing Personal Edition

1. Download the PRPC_PE_win64.zip file from your installation kit.

2. Extract the contents to a directory on your workstation.

This directory name cannot contain spaces.

3. In that directory, double-click install.bat.

The system opens a command window and then launches the installation wizard.

4. When the Personal Edition Installation dialog window displays, click .

5. Carefully review information in the Overview and Prerequisites window to ensure that yourPersonal Edition installs successfully.

Click .

6. On the License Agreement window, review the software license for Personal Edition and its third-



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party products.

Click .

7. The Components to be installed window displays. All of the components necessary for the

install are pre-selected for you.

Optionally, if you do not want to automatically start Pega 7 when the installation completes, clear

the Launch PRPC checkbox.

Click .

8. On the Directories Selection window, browse to the location of the directory where you want to

install the Personal Edition. Otherwise, the installation creates a PRPCPersonalEdition directory

on your C: drive.



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The directory you select must have at least 5 GB of free disk space and must allow a non-

administrative user to create instances in that directory.

Click .

9. The Port Configuration window displays the default port assignment that the Personal Edition

uses for the Database and Tomcat.



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Click to verify that the default ports are available. If there are conflicts, enter a

different port number and run the check again.

Click .

10. Click to launch the install process. Output and Error logs display in the window so you can

monitor the installation process.



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11. When the installation completes and the confirmation message displays, click OK.



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12. Click to close the installation window.

13. If you accepted the default post install process to Launch PRPC, the Pega 7 login screen displayswhen the installation is complete.



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If you did not select the default, see the Using Shortcuts to Start, Log in and Shutdown

Personal Edition section of this document for instructions.

14. Log in to the Pega 7 instance as [email protected] with a password of install to verify

that you can access the Designer Studio.

Personal Edition is now installed and ready for you to configure features and build applications.



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Using Shortcuts to Start, Log in and Shutdown Personal

Edition

As you work with Personal Edition, you can stop and start the Pega 7 instance as you work through your

testing and configuration. This allows you to free up the disk space used by Pega 7 when you are notactively using Personal Edition.

To do this, use the three shortcuts that were added to your desktop during the installation.

n Pega 7.1.7 Start up starts the Pega 7 instance.

n Pega 7.1.7 Login opens the Pega 7 log in screen.

n Pega 7.1.7 Shutdown shuts down the Pega 7 instance.

Starting Personal EditionUse this shortcut to start Personal Edition when it has been shut down or when the Tomcat window is

closed.

1. Click the Start up shortcut to start Pega 7.

2. The start up process is logged in a CMD window.

When the server has started and displays the following message, you can launch the login shortcut

to log into Pega 7.

INFO: Server Startup in ms

3. You can minimize the Tomcat window but it must remain open while you work in Personal

Edition.

Logging into Personal Edition

Use this shortcut to launch the Pega 7 sign-on screen after the server has started.

1. Click the Login shortcut to display the sign-on screen.

2. Enter a User ID and Password.

3. Click Log In.

Shutting down Personal Edition

Use this shortcut to shut down the Personal Edition server after you log out of Personal Edition. This also

closes the Tomcat window.



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n Click the Shutdown shortcut to start the shutdown process.



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Uninstalling Personal Edition

When you are finished with Personal Edition, you can easily remove it from your laptop.

Before you remove Personal Edition, you can package and save your work into a separate file to import

your work into another application.

1. Save your work (recommended).

You can save the work in Personal Edition by using the Application Packaging Wizard to export your

work including work objects and data. Save the export ZIP file to a safe location.

Select Designer Studio > Application > Distribution > Package to start the wizard. For details

about how to use the wizard, see the Pega Discovery Network (PDN) article Migrating Applications

with the Application Packaging Wizard .

2. Backup your database (optional).

3. Close the Tomcat and logging windows.

4. Remove Personal Edition.

a. Delete the PRPCPersonalEdition program directory that was created during the

installation.

b. Delete the three Personal Edition shortcuts on your desktop.


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