Install on Microsoft Windows

Install CAST Imaging on Microsoft Windows - choose your deployment scenario and topology

Overview

This section covers new installations of CAST Imaging on Microsoft Windows. Choose a scenario (the components you want to install) from the table below to open a dedicated, step-by-step installation guide with no conditional branching.

For updates to existing installations, see In-place component update.

Warning

CAST does not support cross-platform installations, i.e. some CAST Imaging components on Linux/Docker and other components on Microsoft Windows, except where a PostgreSQL instance installed on Linux/Docker is being used with CAST Imaging installed on Microsoft Windows.

Choose your deployment

A scenario defines which CAST Imaging components you install. All scenarios include imaging-services and require access to a database instance (not included in the installer - must be installed separately). A topology defines how those components are distributed: single machine (all components on one host - suitable for POC, testing, demo, or small production) or multi-machine (components distributed across dedicated hosts - recommended for production).

Select a scenario to go to its guide, where you can then choose a single-machine or multi-machine topology (S2 and S4 are single-machine only):

Scenario	Analysis	Viewer	Gatekeeper	Use when…
S1 - All Components	✅	✅	✅	Full CAST Imaging: analysis, Viewer and Gatekeeper
S2 - Viewer Only	❌	✅	❌	Read-only Viewer access - analysis runs on a separate installation
S3 - Viewer + Analysis	✅	✅	❌	Run analysis and view results; no Gatekeeper component
S4 - Dashboards Only	❌	❌	✅	Read-only Gatekeeper access - analysis runs on a separate installation
S5 - Dashboards + Analysis	✅	❌	✅	Run analysis and view aggregated Gatekeeper results; no Viewer component

On Windows, scenarios that include analysis (S1, S3, S5) require CAST Imaging Core ≥ 8.4 to be installed separately on each machine that runs the analysis-node component. Scenarios S2 and S4 (read-only, no analysis) do not require CAST Imaging Core.

Reference

The following pages apply across all Windows deployment scenarios:

Installation variables - full reference for all *.conf variables
Installing CAST Imaging Core
Reverse proxy configuration
Services startup checker