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The Visual Installer is run through the Kinetica Administration Application (GAdmin) and simplifies the installation of Kinetica. Browse to the head node, using IP or host name:
Once you’ve arrived at the login page, you’ll need to change your password and initialize the system using the following steps:
  1. Log into the admin application
    1. Enter Username: admin
    2. Enter Password: admin
    3. Click Login
  2. If a license key has not already been configured, a Product Activation page will be displayed, where the license key is to be entered: ../../install/img/product_activation.png
    1. Enter the license key under Enter License Key
    2. When complete, click Activate, then confirm the activation
  3. At the Setup Wizard page, configure the system basics:
    1. Enter the IP Address and number of GPUs (if any) for each server in the cluster
    2. Optionally, select the Public Head IP Address checkbox and update the address as necessary
    3. The license key under Configure License Key should already be populated
    4. When complete, click Save
    For additional configuration options, see the Configuration Reference.
  4. Start the system. This will start all Kinetica processes on the head node, and if in a clustered environment, the corresponding processes on the worker nodes.
    1. Click Admin on the left menu
    2. Click Start.
  5. See Changing the Administrator Password for instructions on updating the administration account’s password.