Background

Vista bridge is an API server for Viewpoint’s Vista on-premise application. It serves to give Aclaimant integrations access to our customers Vista instance by adding an API layer. It interacts directly with Vista’s underlying MSSQL database.

Note: Docker is required in order to run the vista bridge, Docker can be run on a Linux server or Windows server.

Setting up Docker on Windows

Configuration

Environment Variables

Loading and running the Docker image

Loading the tar

  1. docker load -i aclaimant-vista-bridge-<version>.tar

Initial run of the Docker image

Notes:

  1. To set the necessary environment variables you can put them in a file or instead use -e ACL_VB_<env>=<value> -e ACL_VB_<env>=<value
  2. Argument -v sets where on disk the search index is stored, useful for restarting and maintaining the index.
docker run -itd -p 80:80 -p 443:443 -v <folder-for-data-on-windows-server>:/usr/vista-bridge/data --name=aclaimant-bridge-<version> --env-file=<envfile> --restart unless-stopped aclaimant/vista-bridge:<version>