OpenSpirit® Web Server 2008
Release Notes / Installation Guide
December, 2008


Introduction

OpenSpirit is pleased to announce the release of a new version of the OpenSpirit Web Server. The OpenSpirit Web Server 2008 release is intended to replace any previous version of the OpenSpirit Web Server.

Data can be accessed from any data store with an OpenSpirit Data Connector. Data may be viewed in table form or as simple graphical plots within the web browser or exported to Excel or Open Office with a single button click.


Enhancements and New Features

Added support for seismic image plots of seismic 2D line data.

Added support for seismic image plots of 3D volume data.

Simplified user interface and removed the Data Folder mode (14555).

The Administrator page starts in a separate browser window (14844).

Added tool tips for all buttons (12591).

Added "About" icon that provides version information (14895).

Added a dialog alerting the user to refresh the data browser page if changes have been made to the list of data store types that the anonymous user has access to (14862).

Bug Fixes

Added support to shutdown data connectors and release OSP runtime licenses when the Web Server is shutdown (15031).

Fixed a problem with horizon plots not showing in Foreign Language Windows Environment.

Fixed a problem with plots not displaying when user login and use personal data connectors. (12612).

Added support to sort the well tops and logs when displaying them using the "List wells details" link for a well plotted in Google Earth (15019).

Added support for display log version in the log data tab (14872).

Fixed a problem with viewing the list of projects if the number of projects selected is large (14858).

Know Issues

The following are the most significant issues known at the time of the release of OpenSpirit Web Server 2008:

There is a problem with sending data to the current version of Google Earth (4.3 beta), the dynamic link is not recognized and no data is added to Google Earth. The workaround is to add two registry entries in order to have Google Earth automatically opened with the data plotted (14498).

The OpenSpirit Web Server does not support "user login" if the OpenSpirit Master is installed on Windows environment. Only anonymous user are supported in such configuration.

Creating a seismic plot from a slice volume has been disabled (14959).


Installation Guide

Pre-Installation

Administrator Account Setup

A login account needs to be established to use for the installation of the OpenSpirit Web Server (e.g. OSPWeb). The login account where the OpenSpirit Web Server is installed will be used as the Web Sever administrator. All the processes that are needed for the Web Server to run will be launched from the administrator account. This account must also be a registered OpenSpirit user. This may be accomplished by running the OpenSpirit launcher and going through the User Setup wizard as the Web Server administrator. This will register the web server Administrator account as an OpenSpirit user and allow you to designate which hosts and accounts should be used to run OpenSpirit data connectors that will be utilized by web client users of the OpenSpirit web server.

The Administrator account ID will also be used for the Anonymous user in the OpenSpirit Web Server.

Anonymous User Setup

The OpenSpirit Web Server can be setup to have an Anonymous user login, thus making it possible for Clients that do not have project access to view common data. The Anonymous user is the same login ID as the Web Server Administrator account. In order for the Anonymous login user to view data the login account must have access to projects (GF, OW, etc).

OpenSpirit 3.1.2+

In order for the OpenSpirit Web Server to operate an OpenSpirit v3.1.2 or greater installation must be available or installed prior to OpenSpirit Web Server installation. The OpenSpirit v3.1.2 installation must be also be running prior to the Web Server installation and will be verified that it is running during the installation.

Installation

Installation is performed using an OpenSpirit Web Server install kit(s), available at www.openspirit.com/downloads.html. The install kit will guide you through the various phases of installation and install all the files needed to run the OpenSpirit Web Server.

There are separate install kits for Solaris, Linux, and Windows.

Running the Installer

Once the desired OpenSpirit Web Server install kit is downloaded you start the installer, for example, on Solaris typing ./OSPWeb2008_Sol.bin from within the directory where you copied it. The installer’s initial display will appear. Simply follow the instructions on each screen. During the installation process you will be required to enter the directory for your OpenSpirit v3.1.2+ installation.

Obtain a License Feature

Before you can run the OpenSpirit Web Server, you need to get a Web Server license feature (OspWebServer). The feature needs to be added to your existing OpenSpirit v3.1.2+ license file. Please contact support@openspirit.com if you do not already have the OspWebServer license feature..

Startup

Tomcat server

The only service that needs to be started in order to run the OpenSpirit Web Server is the Tomcat server. The Tomcat server is a Java based Web Application server that was created to run Servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSP) in Web applications.

The startup script for the Tomcat server is located in the OSPWeb installation directory under <OSPWeb_HOME>/init.d/. To start the server simply run the script: ./tomcat start

In order to ensure that the web server is always running you may wish to have your system administrator install the tomcat script in your system init.d file and configure it to start and stop at system startup and shutdown time. The Tomcat server should be started after the OpenSpirit shared services that the OpenSpirit Web Server is connected to is running.

Web page

The OpenSpirit Web Server will be available at the default web URL:

http://<machine name or IP address>:8080/WebOsp

for example:
http://192.168.10.11:8080/WebOsp

Certified Operating Systems

The following operating systems have been certified for the OpenSpirit Web Server:

Certified Browsers

The following internet browser where certified to run with the OpenSpirit Web Server:


Technical Support

Please refer to the following resources for OpenSpirit information:

Support Home www.openspirit.com/support
FAQ's www.openspirit.com/support/enduserFAQ.html
E-mail Support support@openspirit.com

OpenSpirit Web Server 2008 is designated with U.S. Department of Commerce Export Control Classification Number 5D002.b.1