Under the Windows environment, the SM (Service Manager) client is installed using a common EXE setup file. Apart from the standard procedure of accepting the license agreement and specifying the installation directory, the setup wizard has 2 pages which ask the user to specify certain parameters. Normally, setup files will be built with settings already pre-defined for a specific server. However, if it is necessary, users may change settings during the installation process.

• SM Service Name - CORBA name of the running SM service
• Application Service Name – name of the application server
• Update Service Name – name of the update service, which will provide information regarding client updates, if any are available
• ORB Host – IP/hostname of the ORB naming service
• ORB Port – port number of the ORB naming service

• Server Host: IP/hostname of SM server. Apart from CORBA, SM server deploys a custom TCP-based notification mechanism, for which this setting is necessary
• Server Port – SM server port number (see Server Host)
• HTTP Server URL – base URL, which will be used as a prefix to SM’s web based data locations. For example, image and vector prototypes, used to build diagrams, are all located and provided by an HTTP server.