Installing a standalone CCS Manager for a scale out deployment of CCS

CCS Manager is the interface to the programs that do the actual work of collecting data from the network. Your Control Compliance Suite (CCS) deployment can include multiple CCS Managers. Based on network affinity and load, CCS automatically detects the appropriate CCS manager to execute a specific job.
The installation of the CCS Manager instance is of paramount importance for collecting data and reporting to the Control Compliance Suite infrastructure. The CCS Manager also plays roles of a load balancer and data evaluator. The CCS Manager's data collector role is to collect data from the data collection infrastructures including data collection from Agents, CSV files, or ODBC databases.
The collected data is stored in a SQL database where it can be further evaluated and reported against the standards. The reporter generates reports of the collected data and displays them in the console. The load balancer routes the data collection and the data evaluation jobs evenly to the configured data collectors and data evaluators respectively.
You can install the CCS Manager and the CCS Application Server on a single computer. Installing CCS 12.0 suite
You can add the CCS Manager to an existing installation of the CCS Application Server.
The CCS Manager also installs the CCS Agent on the computer.
You cannot install a CCS Manager on a computer that has a standalone CCS Agent installed, because the CCS Manager installation also contains the installation of CCS Agent.
See the following sections before installing the CCS Manager:
Installation (or upgrade) of a standalone CCS Manager is supported on a computer that runs Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and later.
Perform the following procedures before installing a standalone CCS Manager:
Install the CCS Application Server. Installing CCS 12.0 suite
Create a certificate for the CCS Manager using the Certificate Management Console. The Certificate Management Console is installed along with the installation of the CCS Application Server. Creating a certificate for installing a standalone CCS Manager
Do the following to install the CCS Manager:
  1. To launch the Installation Wizard
  2. Download one of the following CCS installation packages from https://symantec.flexnetoperations.com/control/symc/registeranonymouslicensetoken:
    • Symantec_Control_Compliance_Suite_12_0_Windows_EN.zip
    • Symantec_Control_Compliance_Suite_12_5_Windows_EN.zip
  3. Extract the contents of the zip package.
  4. In the
    Installset
    folder, double-click
    Setup.exe
    .
    In the security warning dialog box, click
    Run
    .
  5. In the DemoShield, click
    CCS Manager
    .
    On the splash screen, click
    Install CCS Manager
    . The Setup file is located inside the CCS_Manager folder of the product media.
    Setup prepares the CCS Manager installation wizard and prompts to install any prerequisites, if required. During the prerequisite installation, if the computer prompts you to restart, restart the computer and launch the setup again.
  6. To install the CCS Manager
  7. In the
    Welcome
    panel of the launched Symantec Control Compliance Suite installation wizard, read and accept the license agreement, and then click
    Next
    .
    The Product Improvement Program is enabled by default. The Product Improvement Program does not collect any personally identifiable data and the participation is optional. If you do not want to share the data with Symantec, then you must opt-out of the program. To opt-out of the product improvement program, uncheck
    I agree to participate in the Product Improvement Program by sharing the installation information with Symantec
    . For more information about the product improvement program, Product Improvement Program
  8. In the
    Prerequisites
    panel, review the prerequisites that are required for the installation. Install any prerequisite application that is required to be installed. Click
    Check again
    to verify whether the installation is successful.
    You must install Crystal Reports 2016 manually on the CCS Manager computer that is configured with the role of a reporter. To install Crystal Reports 2016 during the CCS Manager installation, expand Crystal Reports and check
    Install
    .
    You can also install Crystal Reports 2016 from the <installation directory>/Symantec/CCS/Reporting and Analytics/WebPortal/Console/Redist folder of the CCS Application Server using one of the following:
    • CRRuntime_32bit_13_0_19
    • CRRuntime_64bit_13_0_19
  9. Click
    Next
    .
  10. In the
    Installation Folder
    panel, review the installation path for product installation.
    Click browse (
    ...
    ) to specify a different installation path to install the product.
    You can change the default location of the Installation files cache folder where the setup files that are cached during installation. Click browse (
    ...
    ) to select a different location to store the setup files.
    Click
    Refresh disk space information
    to verify the available disk space on the computer.
  11. Click
    Next
    . If you have specified a different installation path, and the installer folder does not exist, the installer prompts you to create the installation folder.
  12. In the
    CCS Manager - Service Configuration
    panel, enter a port for the CCS Manager. CCS components use this port to communicate with the CCS Manager.
    You must import the security certificate that is used by the CCS Manager to communicate with the CCS Application Server securely.
    The certificate which is to be deployed on the CCS Manager is created using the
    Certificate Management Console
    . The
    Certificate Management Console
    is installed on the CCS Application Server computer. You can either pull the certificate from the CCS Application Server computer or place it manually on the computer on which you are installing the CCS Manager.
    Browse for the Security Certificate file location and enter the password.
  13. In the
    Summary
    panel, review the installation details and click
    Install
    .
    You can click the link,
    Export Summary
    to export the configuration details of the CCS Manager that is installed on the computer. The details appear in a browser, after you specify the location to export the summary.
  14. The
    Install
    panel indicates the progress of the component installation. After the installation finishes, the
    Result
    panel appears.
    If the installation is completed with warnings, a
    Warning
    panel displays warning messages or a
    Result
    panel displays critical errors, perform the remediation steps displayed in the
    Detail
    window to complete the installation.
    You can click the link,
    Log Files
    to view the CCS Manager installation log files. The log files are in .csv format. You can use the LogViewer in the <Install_Directory>\Application Server to view the log files. The LogViewer helps you to easily identify warnings and errors using the color codes. Warnings are highlighted in yellow color and errors are highlighted in red color.
  15. In the
    Result
    panel, review the installation result and then click
    Next
    .
    You can click the link,
    Log Files
    to view the CCS Manager installation log files. The log files are in .csv format. You can use the LogViewer in the <Install_Directory>\Application Server to view the log files. The LogViewer helps you to easily identify warnings and errors using the color codes. Warnings are highlighted in yellow color and errors are highlighted in red color.
  16. The
    Next Steps
    panel displays the additional steps that you must perform to complete the CCS deployment. Perform the next steps and then click
    Finish
    .
    You can click the link,
    Save the next steps
    to save the next steps for future reference. The details appear in a browser, after you specify the location to save the next steps.
    You can click the link,
    Log Files
    to view the CCS Manager installation log files. The log files are in .csv format. You can use the LogViewer in the <Install_Directory>\Application Server to view the log files. The LogViewer helps you to easily identify warnings and errors using the color codes. Warnings are highlighted in yellow color and errors are highlighted in red color.
    You can check the option to view the release notes.