SystemLink Enterprise IT Administrators Manual
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SystemLink Enterprise IT Administrators Manual
The SystemLink Enterprise IT Administrators Manual provides guidance and reference material for IT users responsible for deploying, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting SystemLink Enterprise.
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- Understanding the SystemLink Enterprise environment:Before deploying, review the supported deployment targets and overall system architecture.
- Supported Cloud Providers: Cloud provider environments validated and tested by NI for production deployments.
- SystemLink Environment Architecture: Kubernetes cluster architecture diagrams, including components, protocols, and communication paths.
- Planning your deployment:Use the pre-installation checklist to prepare your infrastructure and choose a deployment profile.
- Preparing to Host and Operate SystemLink Enterprise: A checklist of all computing, network, storage, and security prerequisites with validation steps for each.
- Configuring prerequisites:Provision and configure all required infrastructure before running the Helm installation.
- Required Kubernetes Infrastructure: Kubernetes cluster requirements, including cloud-specific EKS and AKS configurations.
- Required Permissions for Kubernetes: RBAC permissions required to install and operate the SystemLink Admin and SystemLink Helm charts.
- Required Storage Infrastructure: External storage requirements for MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and object storage (Amazon S3 or Azure Blob Storage).
- Networks and TLS: Virtual network configuration, DNS, ingress controllers, load balancers, TLS certificates, and firewall rules.
- Identity and Access Management: Configuring an OpenID Connect (OIDC) provider, required claims, and initial system administrator assignment.
- Configuring SystemLink Repositories: Authenticating with NI's artifact repository and mirroring it for air-gapped or restricted environments.
- Installing SystemLink Enterprise:
- Installing SystemLink Enterprise: End-to-end Helm-based installation procedure, covering namespace setup, secrets, and the required configuration files.
- Service Configurations: Setting up the services that help run SystemLink Enterprise.
- Operation and monitoring:
- Observing a SystemLink Enterprise Environment: OpenTelemetry-based observability architecture for traces, metrics, and logs, with guidance on connecting to Grafana Cloud and other backends.
- Maintenance:
- Updating SystemLink Enterprise: Helm upgrade procedure for configuration changes and version upgrades, including RabbitMQ compatibility checks.
- Backing Up SystemLink Enterprise: Coordinated backup procedures for all data stores (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, object storage, Kubernetes).
- Restoring SystemLink Enterprise: Procedures for restoring data stores or recovering from a complete cluster loss.
- Uninstalling SystemLink Enterprise: Removing the Helm releases and cleaning up persistent volume claims.