Installing a Scalable, Fault-Tolerant FME Flow

Before installing FME Flow for fault tolerance, make sure you have:

Read and understood Planning an FME Flow Installation, including Planning for Fault Tolerance.
Provided the prerequisites in Before Installation.
Linux: Ensured System Requirements are met on all machines you have allocated for your fault-tolerant architecture, including updates and dependencies.

To perform an installation for fault tolerance:

Obtain the Installer
(Optional) Install the FME Flow Database

Note Complete this step only if you wish to install a PostgreSQL database that is included with the FME Flow installer, and do not wish to configure the FME Flow Database on your own database server. For more information, see Provide a Database Server.

Install FME Flow on All Servers you have allocated for your fault-tolerant architecture.
Configure the FME Flow Database on your database server.
Note Complete this step only if you are configuring the FME Flow Database on your own database server, and did not install the PostgreSQL database that is included with the FME Flow installer. For more information, see Provide a Database Server.
Set Up the Load Balancer and Configure with FME Flow to route traffic between each FME Flow instance you installed.
Start the FME Flow system services. Following a fault-tolerant installation, the FME Flow system services do not start automatically. You must manually start them.
Log on to the Web User Interface and update the password for the admin user account (recommended).
Request and Install a License on all FME Flow installations.
Note Specify the same serial number in all licensing requests.
Test the Installation.

What's Next?

Optimize: You can scale-up your system by:

Increasing the number of FME Engines that run on machines that are part of your FME Flow deployment.
Adding or accessing FME Engines on additional machines.

For more information, see Planning for Scalability and Performance.