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| Summary: this cookbook provides IT Infrastructure experts with the information they need to plan a deployment of the CAST Application Intelligence Platform. |
To prepare the deployment of CAST AIP you must first understand the platform functional architecture (see Overview of CAST Application Intelligence Platform). Thereafter, this section helps you to understand the CAST AIP deployment process and configuration, as well as helping you to select the target deployment scenario that best meets your organization's business and operational objectives.
This section explains the high level deployment of CAST AIP. In very simplistic terms, a typical medium/large/enterprise deployment of CAST AIP can be divided up into the following "areas".
| Note that the diagram below shows a medium/large/enterprise deployment (see Hardware sizing considerations below), however, CAST AIP can also be deployed on one single machine, if the environment and analysis expectations are small. |
The Front Office of CAST AIP is composed of a set of components that are used either to deliver the source code, store and access analysis results.
| Components | Delivery Managers | Consumers/end-users | Administrators |
|---|---|---|---|
CAST AIC Portal (AICP) CAST Delivery Manager Tool (DMT) |  | | Only during setup |
| Web apps |  | | Only during setup |
| Storage | | | |
Please refer to the following topics to understand the Source Code delivery process and to consider the location of the Delivery folder which is required by the CAST AIC Portal and the CAST Management Studio:
This area comprises the CAST AIP databases/schemas known as the Management, Analysis, Dashboard and Measurement Services. These databases/schemas are used to store data generated by the CAST Management Studio (i.e. analysis and snapshot result data). In general, components are hosted on one dedicated machine via the use of the CAST Storage Service or a commercially available and supported RDBMS instance. Storage components must be made available to the components in the Back Office area, either directly (same machine) or via a network.
The Back Office of CAST AIP consists of a set of Client/Server (C/S) tools installed by the CAST AIP setup on one or more Windows machines:
| Components | Delivery Managers | Consumers/end-users | Administrators |
|---|---|---|---|
Analysis Server/Deployment folder | | | |
| Admin Server | | | |
When planning a deployment of CAST AIP, considerable attention must be paid to the hardware on which CAST AIP will run, whether this is one single machine for a small deployment or multiple machines for Medium/Large/Enterprise deployments. Sizing hardware can be difficult, as the requirements depend on many variables, such as the number of applications and the size of the source code to be analyzed, the number of end-users (consumers) that will be consulting the results and the specific deployment constraints within the environment.
CAST provides guidelines in Deployment - sizing, which can help you make the necessary decisions.
Together with hardware sizing, IT infrastructure experts also need to take into account security considerations when deploying CAST AIP. In an age where systems are distributed across LAN and even WAN connections, security is a top priority. CAST AIP can be installed one single machine for a small deployment or multiple machines for Medium/Large/Enterprise deployments - both scenarios require that due consideration is given to deploying CAST AIP in a secure way, whether by deploying on a virtual infrastructure and only allowing access over Remote Desktop, or using a highly secure platform such as XenApp and deploying CAST AIP within it.
CAST provides guidelines in Deployment - security, which can help you make the necessary decisions.