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• Upgrading to this Charon-PAR from an older version requires a license update. Please contact your VAR or Stromasys representative to plan the update.
• Applicable to HASP licenses only: Charon-PAR version 3.0 and higher is incompatible with licenses of earlier versions. Earlier product versions are incompatible with licenses for Charon-PAR 3.0 and higher. Charon-PAR/PA3 licenses for version 3.0 are not backward compatible for emulators running with version 2.x.

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• A set of RPM packages for installations in on all supported platforms and environments.
• A marketplace AMI containing the base operating system and the preinstalled Charon-PAR software. At the time of writing, this format was planned for AWS (starting with Charon-PAR 3.0.6). Please contact your Stromasys representative for details about availability on AWS and other cloud platforms.

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The following table lists the required installation packages (the placeholder <version> denotes the version of the package, for example, 3.0.36):

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• For the installation of a Charon-PAR/PA3 emulated system, a preinstalled MPE/iX 7.5 disk image (mpe75a.dsk.bz2) is required. This will be provided by Stromasys.
• For the installation of a Charon-PAR/PA9 emulated system, a HP-UX ISO is required. . It must be provided by the customer.

Charon-PAR RPM Installation Command Overview

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Sentinel Runtime RPM Installation (not required for VE

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Important points:

• The aksusbd package version 7.63 requires the 32-bit glibc-library. On supported Linux distributions, this library is available through the standard repositories. The relevant package is glibc.i686 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS.
• Normally, the aksusbd package installation with yum or dnf installs the 32-bit glibc and other dependency automatically (provided package repositories are available). Red Hat Enterprise must be registered to access the Red Hat repositories, or the installation CD must be mounted. Should the Charon host system not have access to the Internet, please refer to How to install the glibc.i686 package without an Internet connection for further information.
• When installing the aksusbd package version 8.13 in some CentOS 7.x environments it was observed that the aksusbd service did not start automatically after a new installation or an upgrade. The following error was displayed during the installation: Failed to restart aksusbd.service: Access denied. If this happens, uninstall the aksusbd package and reboot the system. After rebooting the system, re-install the package. The cause of this sporadic problem has not yet been identified.

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• re-install the package. The cause of this sporadic problem has not yet been identified.

The aksusbd package installs the programs aksusbd and hasplmd in /usr/sbin.

VE License Server RPM Installation (only Required for VE Licenses)

If you cannot use an existing VE license server and need to install the software locally, use the steps describe below.

1. The Charon VE License Server package is delivered as an RPM package. Stromasys or your Stromasys VAR will provide you with the software or a download link.

Package name:

license-server-<version>.rpm

Where <version> indicates the version of the software, for example, 1.1.21.

2. As a privileged user (root) go to the directory where you stored the installation package and install the package. On an instance installed from a prepackaged Charon VE marketplace image, the installation package is stored under /charon/storage

Install the package:
Linux 7.x: # yum install license-server*.rpm
Linux 8.x: # dnf install license-server*.rpm

Please note: the VE license server software has specific software requirements (especially in the different cloud environments and on VMware). Please refer to the VE License Server Guide in Licensing Documentation section on the Stromasys documentation page.

The example below shows the installation of the aksusbd package with automatic installation of the 32-bit glibc library and its dependencies:

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At the time of writing, such a marketplace image was planned for AWS. Please contact your Stromasys representative with any questions regarding availability.

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