Quick Start Tool

This tool aims to automate all actions taken at the very beginning of a new server instance creation.

First of all, make sure that ODKSM is installed and that you know how to configure a new instance.

Setup

Begin with choosing a folder that will be the root of all server instances. Copy there both START.bat and bootstrap.ini, that can be found in the ODKSM root folder.

Now edit bootstrap.ini and set the two fields in the [bootstrap] section:

• instances_root: the directory in which the instances will be saved

• odksm_folder_path: the root of ODKSM

Note

Additional fields can be set in bootstrap.ini: these will be default values in newly created instances’ config.ini, so it makes sense to set them here only if they are global values for the whole server, like maybe arma_folder or password_admin.

Finally, edit START.bat and set the variable ODKSM_FOLDER_PATH to your ODKSM root.

Note

When keeping bootstrap.ini and START.bat in different folders, edit the latter and set the variable DEFAULT_CONFIG to the path of bootstrap.ini.

Usage

Simply launch the START.bat script. A console ui will ask for the instance name and whether to include templates.

You are not done! The tool just created a new folder, where it put everything needed to start configuring the server instance as explained in Create a server instance.