Installing CAST AIP

Install CAST AIP

Download your CAST AIP Extensions

Before you can install a CAST AIP Extension with your CAST AIP schemas, you first need to download it. This is an optional step.

Install CAST AIP schemas

CAST Application Intelligence Platform relies on a set of databases/schemas to store the data resulting from the source code analysis. This databases/schemas are created during this step and you can follow different scenarios (deployment scenario) This step is executed from the CAST Administration workstation configured in Step 1 using CAST Server Manager.

You can optionally install your downloaded CAST AIP Extensions at the same time as you install the CAST AIP schemas.

Initialize the platform preferences in CAST Management Studio

Run the CAST Management Studio to:

• Enter a license key
• Configure the source code Delivery and Deployment folders
• Optionally import the Assessment Model if you have installed CAST AIP Extensions at the same time as installing your CAST schemas

Deploy the CAST web applications

Deploy the CAST web applications. This includes:

• the CAST AIC Portal to manage the delivery and packaging of source code for analysis via the CAST Delivery Manager Tool (DMT) - mandatory. The source code Delivery folder also needs to be defined at this point.
• the CAST Application Analytics Dashboard for high level data consumption
• the CAST Application Engineering Dashboard for for detailed data investigation
• the legacy CAST Engineering Dashboard and the CAST Discovery Portal for detailed data investigation (optional based on your license agreement)