After EASA has been installed, the EASA web pages have been tested, and the license has been installed, a few other tasks may remain.

• An Administrator may want to,
  • Run EASA as a Service
  • Run EASA under Linux as a user other than root
  • Rename the EASA Tomcat service
  • Modify EASA's memory usage
    • Windows
      • EASA run as an application
      • EASA run as a service
    • Linux

The EASA Server service is installed automatically on Windows.

Linux must be manually configured, see Install EASA as a Linux service.

By default, EASA will run as root on a Linux computer. The steps below will configure EASA to run as a different user:

• Stop the EASA Server, see Start or Stop EASA
• Uncomment and set the RUN_USER variable to the desired user name in:
  • <EASAROOT>/tomcat/bin/easa.conf
• Add read, write and execute permissions on the installation and data folders.
  • For example,
    • sudo chown -R easauser:easauser <EASAROOT>
    • sudo chown -R easauser:easauser <SERVERDATA>

• By default EASA runs on port 80 which is not available to a user other than root.
• To turn on port forwarding from 8080 to 80, edit two files,
  • In <EASAROOT>/tomcat/bin/easa.conf
    • Uncomment and set the CATALINA_IP variable to the IP address of the EASA Server computer.
    • Uncomment the EXTERNAL_PORT variable,
    • Uncomment the INTERNAL_PORT variable.
  • In <EASAROOT>/tomcat/conf/server.xml
    • In the first <Connector> tag set,
      • proxyPort to port 80
      • port to port 8080
  • Start the EASA software on the EASA Server, see Start or Stop EASA.

The Linux EASA Server is now configured to run as a user easauser.

Tomcat8 is the default name when EASA is installed to run as a Windows service.

• To rename the service,
  1. Execute,
     • <EASAROOT>\tomcat\bin\uninstallservice.bat
  2. Open,
     • <EASAROOT>\tomcat\bin\serviceName.properties
  3. Change the text in the file to the new name then save.
  4. Execute,
     • <EASAROOT>\tomcat\bin\installservice.bat

EASA's default memory allocation is correct for most cases. However if EASA Technical Services advises increasing the amount of memory available to Java, please follow the steps below:

The EASA Server is configured to allocate 1100MB (1.1GB) of memory for Java. The procedure for raising or lowering the maximum heap size depends on whether the EASA Server runs under Windows or Linux and whether its runs as an application or as a service.

The memory setting should be at least 500 MB to maintain an acceptable level of performance from an EASA Server.

• The EASA Server's current memory setting is found at,
  • EASA→Administrator→System→Diagnostics→Summary→Maximum allowed memory usage

• If EASA is run as an application, the environment variable JAVA_OPTS will be,
  • JAVA_OPTS→-Xmx1100m
• To change the EASA Server's allocation to 750 MB modify the environment variable below,
  • Settings→Control Panel→System→Advanced→Environment Variables
    • JAVA_OPTS→-Xmx750m

• If EASA runs as a Windows service, configure the maximum memory setting before installing the EASA service in,
  • <EASAROOT>\tomcat\bin\service.bat
• Edit the service.bat file in a text editor, such as Notepad, and search for and then modify the default maximum memory setting of,
  • --JvmMx 1100
• For example to allocate 750 MB for EASA, change the above line to,
  • --JvmMx 750

Additionally, raise the maximum heap size available to Windows services by running regedit, by modifying the third number in the SharedSection entry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\SubSystems\Windows

• For example…
  • Change,
    • SharedSection=1024,20480,768
  • To,
    • SharedSection=1024,20480,2048

If EASA has already been set to run as a service, then the existing service must be removed and then installed again after changing the memory settings, see Remove the EASA Service for details on removing the service.

• To change the EASA maximum memory setting on a Linux computer,
  • edit the line containing JAVA_OPTS in,
    • <EASAROOT>/tomcat/bin/easa.sh
  • change the default -Xmx1100m value to the desired maximum memory setting.
  • For example to allocate 750 MB for EASA, set the value to
    • -Xmx750m