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FbF bioServer – Quick Start Guide
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Quick Start Guide
This Quick Start Guide provides information and
guidance on installation and commissioning FbF
bioServer.
Fulcrum Biometrics, Inc. USA 16108 University Oak San Antonio,
TX 78249 Office: +1-800-430-4601
Intl: +1-210-257-5769Fax: +1-210-348-3691
[email protected]
www.fulcrumbiometrics.com
Version: 0.1, No: BSRVR20-QS01
FbF bioServer 2.0
Released on: August 26, 201
mailto:[email protected]://www.fulcrumbiometrics.com/
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Content
1. Introduction
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2. About FbF bioServer
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3. Requirements for FbF bioServer
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4. Installation
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4.1 Installation through WE7S:
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4.2 Installation through Standalone
Installer:...................................................................
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5. FbF bioServer Administration Application
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6. Uninstall FbF bioServer
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FbF bioServer – Quick Start Guide Introduction
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1. Introduction This Quick Start Guide provides information and
guidance on installation and commissioning
FbF bioServer. To make this document short and easily accessible
to users, only basic
functionality and most common scenarios have been
considered.
To make this guide more comprehensive and to attract your
attention to a important facts
and information, this guide uses notation icons. All these
notation icons are listed below
with their meanings:
Attention Required
Important Information
[email protected] www.fulcrumbiometrics.com
Email Address. Click it to open the default emailing program
Website Link. Click it to open the website in you default internet
browser
Detailed information on other prospective of FbF bioServer can
be obtained from the
following sources:
1. For information on Maintenance and Administration, refer to
“FbF bioServer - User and
Administration Manual“.
2. For information on how to develop client application, refer
to “FbF bioServer -
Developer’s Guide”.
3. For any other information, contact Fulcrum Biometrics Support
Team at
[email protected]
mailto:[email protected]://www.fulcrumbiometrics.com/[email protected]
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2. About FbF bioServer The FbF bioServer is a high-speed,
high-volume biometric transaction-processing engine
with an objective of eliminating the time and cost required to
develop and integrate a
scalable biometric matching server. FbF bioServer is compromised
of various components
which are:
1. FbF WCF Web Service: A WCF Service capable of receiving
requests and send responses
back to the client application built over Windows Communication
Framework Classes.
2. FbF Web Service: A simple web service hosted by IIS Server
7.0 which acts as another
gateway for client applications to contact FbF bioServer. As web
services are the most
widely used channel for server communication, FbF Web Service
allows rapid
integration of FbF bioServer APIs into client applications
3. FbF Matching Engine: It is the core component of FbF
bioServer which is responsible for
performing all the biometrics operations being carried out in
bioServer.
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3. Requirements for FbF bioServer AREA REQUIREMENTS
Operating System Windows 7 Windows 7 Embedded Standard Windows
Server 2008
Processor Intel® Pentium® IV, 2GHz or faster processor (or
equivalent)
Memory Requirements 2GB of RAM or higher
Installation Footprint Approximately 100 MB
Database Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 or higher
Web Server Technology IIS Server 7.0 or higher
Logical ports used by application
80: To send request to Standard Service from other machines.
8523: To access FbF bioServer’s WCF based web service. 8534: To
access FbF bioServer’s Web Service.
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4. Installation There are two methods of installing FbF
bioServer on a machine. Two methods are listed
below:
1. Windows Embedded 7 Standard: Windows Embedded 7 Standard
operating system
image (ISO) with FbF bioServer pre-installed and pre-configured
on it.
2. Standalone Installer: A bioServer installation program which
basically installs and
configures bioServer on existing operating system.
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4.1 Installation through WE7S:
RAR files available on the download link provided to you are the
segments of DVD ISO
image of FbF bioServer 2.0 WE7S. Follow the procedure below in
order to re-generate
the ISO image using these segments. Please note that you need to
have latest version
of WinRAR software installed on your machine to perform step 3
and 4 below.
1. Click on the download link. It will take you to the “FbF
BioServer 2.0 WE7S” License
Agreement and Download page.
2. This page displays the “End User License Agreement (EULA)” of
bioServer. Please
read it carefully.
3. If you agree to the EULA: a. Please enter your Name and Email
Id in the “Name and Email-Id” field b. Check the “I Agree” checkbox
and click “Continue” button to go to the
Download Page. 4. On download page, select any one or all the
parts of the ISO image that you want
to download. If you have selected more than one part,
FileAnyWhere will zip all
the selected part together in a single file and start the
download of the same.
5. Once you have downloaded all the 18 part of the ISO image on
your computer,
place them in a single directory\folder.
6. Right click on any one of it and start the extraction process
using WinRAR
software. Provide the desired location to save the ISO image
when asked by
WinRAR software.
7. WinRAR will automatically locate and start extraction of all
the parts (starting with
first) and will save the complete ISO image in the end of the
extraction process on
the provided location.
8. Once you have recreated the ISO image, you can use it to
install either on a virtual
machine or a read hardware.
9. To install it on a virtual machine, simply create a new
virtual machine and provide
the ISO image as OS installation media.
10. To install it on a real hardware, you will first have to
burn the ISO image on a DVD
media. Also, it is highly advisable to burn the DVD in 4x speed.
High speed burning
may result in non-functional DVDs.
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11. Insert the bioServer DVD media burned using the downloaded
ISO image into the
DVD drive of the machine where you want install bioServer WE7S
and boot your
computer using the same.
12. Once computer boots using the bioServer DVD media, it will
automatically start
the bioServer WE7S install on the host computer. Follow the on
screen instructions
to install the bioServer in desired configuration.
Please make sure that you use “Create DVD from ISO image” option
to create installation DVD. Simple burning the ISO image as file on
the DVD will not work.
All the Data will be lost on the drive where FbF bioServer WE7S
will be installed. Users are recommended to perform thorough backup
of the drive where they are planning to install bioServer WE7Sif
they have any useful data on it.
During the bioServer WE7S installation, you will be asked for
your preference on following settings. Choose the options as per
your requirements. 1. Windows Embedded 7 License Agreement 2.
Logical Drive partition to install bioServer WE7S. You can also
Create, Delete
or Format partitions at this stage. Please remember that all the
data will be lost on drive on which Create, Delete or Format option
will be used.
3. Country and Language Settings 4. System Date and Time
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4.2 Installation through Standalone Installer:
Standalone installer helps you to install FbF bioServer on a
machine that already has
an Operating System installed on it and meets all the above
mentioned requirements.
Follow the list of instructions below which will guide you
through the process step by
step.
1. Run the “FbF bioServer.exe” file standalone installer
provided to you as bioServer
installation program.
2. Installation program will display FbF bioServer End User
License Agreement (EULA). Please read the license agreement
carefully and if you agree to it, click the “Accept” button to
indicate your acceptance and continue installation.
3. Installer will then run a various checks on your computer for
the FbF bioServer
Pre-requisites (required framework and other software
dependencies). After the
tests are complete, setup will display a report as visible in
the image above. If any
of the pre-requisite is not present on the target machine, you
should install the
pre-requisite manually and start the FbF bioServer installation
again.
Sometime Installer is not able to detect MS SQL Server instance
on the machine thus provides you with an option to move
forward.
If you decide to move forward, installer assumes that there is a
SQL Server instance on the machine which you are aware of. If you
are not sure about the presence of SQL Server on your machine then
contact your Administrator to provide you with the details. The
image for the scenario has been shown above.
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4. Provide the installer with the directory name where you want
to install FbF
bioServer. Default installation path is:
a) For 32-bit OS: “c:\Program Files\Fulcrum Biometrics\FbF
bioServer”
b) For 64-bit OS: “c:\Program Files (x86)\Fulcrum Biometrics\FbF
bioServer”
5. Provide installer with database server details, so that
installer can setup a database for FbF bioServer. You will have to
provide the credentials of database user “sa” or any other user
with equivalent privileges.
6. If any database with name used by FbF bioServer for its
internal database is already present on the server, then installer
is designed to overwrite the database after a warning as visible in
the image.
If you wish to take the backup of the existing database, then
click “No” and run the FbF bioServer setup again after the backup
is complete
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7. Enter the Taxonomy details which were provided to you at the
time purchase.
8. Enter the License Server IP Address and Port Number. It is
recommended to use
you bioServer machine also as your License Server. In this case,
use following
values.
If you wish to create\host license server on some machine other
than bioServer
then use the corresponding IP Address and Port Number.
Providing a wrong License Server IP Address and port will make
FbF bioServer unable to acquire different license. FbF bioServer
does not starts perform any operations in the absence of required
licenses.
To learn how to create\host a License Server, read the License
Server section in FbF bioServer User and Administration Guide.
License Server IP Address 127.0.0.1 License Server Port Number
5000
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5. FbF bioServer Administration Application FbF bioServer
Administration Application is installed with all the version of FbF
bioServer. It
can be launched by clicking on the “FbF bioServer Admin”
shortcut created on the User’s
Desktop.
FbF bioServer Administration utility allows users and
administrators to monitor bioServer’s
state and easily change different configurations parameters.
Below is a snap shot of FbF
bioServer Administration Utility and brief description of
controls marked with number.
1. FbF bioServer State: Its shows the current state of the FbF
bioServer like Initializing,
Started, Stepped etc (Ex. In above figure, FbF bioServer is in
Stopped state). This section
also allows user to start\stop FbF BioServer by clicking at the
corresponding buttons.
2. Home Tab: This tab allows user to modify the internal
configuration related to matching
and data processing.
This application must be started under Administrator privileges
else it will fail to start.
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a) Add New: Use this button to add a new instance of matching
engine.
b) Edit: Use this button if you want to modify an existing
instance of matching server.
While Adding or Editing a matching server, user interface will
allow you to choose different possibilities for following
configurations:
Server Configuration Tab: This tab allows you to modify FbF
bioServer database and
license related configuration as showing in the image below.
Before changing License IP
and port, make sure that you have a license server running on
the provided network
location else application will display a message as shown in the
image.
FbF bioServer need to be stopped before making any changes in
the configuration. This is to avoid conflicts between the
configuration being used by the bioServer while its running and the
new configuration.
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6. Uninstall FbF bioServer FbF bioServer can also be uninstalled
from Add\Remove feature option of Control Panel.
Steps to Uninstall FbF bioServer are follows:
1. Open “Add\Remove Feature” option of the Control Panel and let
it list all the programs
currently installed on the machine.
2. Locate and select the entry for FbF bioServer with name “FbF
bioServer” and click
Uninstall to start the un-installation process.
3. A pop up may occur stating some of the FbF bioServer services
will also be uninstalled,
Click Ok to continue un-installation.
4. Once Uninstall of FbF bioServer is completed it will prompt
for a Windows restart, Click
Ok, so that changes made to machine can come into effect. If you
plan to restart later
then choose “Restart Later” option.