Installation and Update Guide > Server installation

This description covers a server installation, which is a multi-user system where multiple conventional workstations share common data like symbol libraries, catalogues and projects. The workstations are typically connected to the server in a fast Local Area Network (LAN).

Please note that you must have full administrative rights to the server as well as to the workstations to be able to perform the installation. You must also be able to access the console of the server directly, by remote desktop or by other means.

If the installation that you are doing is an update of cadett ELSA, meaning that you already have an old version of cadett ELSA running which you now will update to a newer version, please first check that the version of AutoCAD that you have installed on your workstations is supported by the new version of cadett ELSA. If not, you must install a newer supported version of AutoCAD on your workstations to be able to continue using cadett ELSA.

If you will use a Solo version of cadett ELSA, like cadett ELSA LT, no separate AutoCAD is needed. Instead, the Solo eXs embedded CAD Engine will be installed as part of the cadett ELSA workstation installation procedure.

The examples showed below are from an installation on Windows Server 2019. If you are installing on another supported Windows Server Operating System, the operations and the looks might differ slightly, but the main procedures will still be the same.

Please refer to the sub-topics listed below, which will take you through the entire installation process, step by step.

•Download the installation file and place it on the server

•Start the installation

•Language selection

•Type of installation

•Possible warnings caused by previous installation

•Main directory and mapped drive

•Project directory

•Spider

•Possible problem when renaming existing directory

•The files are copied and the program is registered

•The server installation is completed

•Remaining steps