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Oracle Argus Safety Installation Guide
Release 7.0.3
E40575-02
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11 Installing End of Study Unblinding

This chapter describes the minimum hardware/software requirements and the installation procedures for the End of Study Unblinding (EOSU) utility. It includes the following sections:

EOSU Hardware/Software Requirements

The following table lists the minimum Hardware and Software required to install End of Study Unblinding:

Requirement Type Description
Hardware Please refer to the Hardware requirements for Argus Safety 7.0.3
Database Server (Same requirements as Argus Safety 7.0.3 Database Server)

A Tablespace with 500MB free space to create EOSU Schema

Argus 7.0.3 schema (This is a prerequisite for the EOSU package to be installed.)

Client Machine Windows XP Pro SP3 (English and Japanese)

Windows 7 (English and Japanese)

Oracle Client v11.2.0.3

Oracle ODAC 11.2.0.3

Microsoft .NET 3.5 Framework

Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Runtime

Pentium III 1.5 GHz Minimum (Pentium IV 2.0 GHz recommended)

512MB RAM Minimum (1GB RAM recommended)

4GB free hard drive space Minimum (10GB recommended)

256 Colors Minimum (64K Recommended)

MS-Office 2007 and 2010

Adobe Acrobat Reader v9.3.4

INIT.ORA parameters In addition to Argus, Please make sure to set the following parameter as shown below

AUDIT_TRAIL=TRUE


How to Install the EOSU Utility

Use the following procedure to install the EOSU utility:

  1. Copy the installation package files to your local directory and start Launch.exe.

  2. When the Welcome dialog box opens:

    • Click Argus Safety.

  3. When the Argus Safety Setup wizard opens the Argus Safety Setup dialog box:

    • Click Next > to continue.

  4. When the wizard opens the Customer Information dialog box: Enter the User Name and Company Name. Click Next.

  5. When the wizard opens the Components Default Directory dialog box: Choose the appropriate folder to install the EOSU Generic software and click Next.

    • Click Browse to locate and select the default directory where EOSU will be installed.

    • Click Next > to continue.

  6. When the wizard opens the Argus Safety Solution Components dialog box:

    • Select End of Study Unblinding Module and click Next to begin the actual installation.

    • Click Next to continue.

  7. Argus installs and shows the progress of the installation.

  8. When the wizard opens the Setup Complete dialog box:

    • Click Finish to exit the Installation program. Argus-EOSU Interface utilities can now be executed.

  9. You can now run the Argus EOSU Interface utilities.

    Setup has installed an Operations Guide and scripts to create Database schema on your computer. Please refer to the Operations Guide to create a new schema to start using EOSU software. The document is in the following directory:

    <Installation Folder>\Oracle\End of Study Unblinding\ARGUS_EOSU.pdf

    Alternatively, you can also go select Start=> Programs=>Oracle=> End of Study Unblinding=> Documentation=> End of Study Unblinding Module to view the documentation.


Note:

When EOSU is installed alone, the user is asked to select the temporary path and update the Argus.ini 'UploadedLetters' parameter. This parameter uses this same path that is entered as the temporary path by the user.


Note:

After installing the EOSU utility, refer to the section The Argus Safety 7.0.3 Application Servers to set up the Argus Cryptography key.