Installation architecture

Now that you know what hardware and software are required, you are good to start with the installation process. But before actually starting the installation process, you should also know what kind of installation will be required as per the requirement is given by the client.

Let us understand a some terminology before considering the types of installation.

Node

Node is nothing but a computer or server which is created to perform a specific role or a combination of roles.

When Qlik Sense is installed, it installs a series of services, which are used to perform respective tasks. For example, the proxy service will be used to do authentication, session handling, and load balancing, whereas scheduler service will be used to schedule the tasks to reload the applications, and so on.

So when you want to assign a specific task to a single server, you can configure the services on that node to make it perform only that specific task.

There are basically two types of nodes which...