Planning your Product deployment(s)
To deploy your product(s) a series of decisions must be made about your configuration.
The product(s) you deploy will include some functionality that you may want to enable/disable depending on your requirements and use-cases.
This will allow you to focus on your deployment throughout the Install And Configure section, ensuring you set up according to your requirements.
If you are resource and capacity planning for your server hardware, please note that you can co-locate the different MindLink server installations all onto one virtual or physical hardware instance. If you have purchased different MindLink products and your chosen strategy is to maintain all the product installations on a single virtual or physical server host then please follow the guidelines in the prerequisites section to ensure there is sufficient memory, CPU and disk space.
MindLink Anywhere
These decisions will focus on your MindLink Anywhere product and the available functionality.
How will users connect? | Internally | Externally |
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Do I want a chat modality disabled? (IM / Group Chat) | Yes | No |
Do I want to allow users to disable their own chat modality? | Yes | No |
What Certificate will be used? | ||
Will MLA be served by a Proxy? | Yes | No |
Will there be Multiple MLA Endpoints with Load-balancing? | Yes | No |
Will SSO be used? | Yes | No |
MindLink Anywhere Features
These features are optional, but require prerequisite steps to be followed before they can be utilised through the MindLink Management Center. Therefore, you need to decide if you want to use them now so that when you get to the prerequisites page you know which features to follow.
MindLink Mobile
How will users connect – VPN/WiFi/Mobile Data with Proxy? | VPN | LAN |
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What security will the server require? | HTTP | HTTPS |
Do I want to allow users to disable their own chat modality? | Internally | Public CA |
How will your Certificate be signed? | Proxy | Direct Connection |
What is the Public Name of the Server (As per proxy config) | Yes | No |
Will IM be enabled? | Yes | No |
Will Group-Chat be enabled? - Refer to Prerequisite page for more information | Yes | No |
MindLink Mobile Features
These features are optional, but require prerequisite steps to be followed before they can be utilised through the MindLink Management Center. Therefore, you need to decide if you want to use them now so that when you get to the prerequisites page you know which features to follow.
MindLink API
What Authentication mechanism will you use? | Password | NTLM | Kerberos |
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What will be the Published name of the Server? | |||
Which Certificate will be used? |
Deploying more than one product on a server
If you are resource and capacity planning for your server hardware, please note that you can co-locate the different MindLink server installations all onto one virtual or physical hardware instance. If you have purchased different MindLink products and your chosen strategy is to maintain all the product installations on a single virtual or physical server host then please follow the guidelines in the prerequisites section to ensure there is sufficient memory, CPU and disk space.