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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.
- 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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- 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.
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Post-Installation Tasks
Installing PuTTY
A recommended post-installation task is the installation of PuTTY to connect to the emulated console. The associated package is part of the EPEL repository.
PuTTY installation steps CentOS/Red Hat 7.x:
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| 1 | Log in as the privileged user on the system ("root"). | |
| 2 | If the additional repository has not yet been installed, install it. The rpm package to install the EPEL repository is included in the extras repository of Red Hat and CentOS.Older Red Hat / CentOS 7 versions: | Step | Command | 1 | Log in as the privileged user on the system ("root"). |
| 2 | Check the PuTTY version available in the EPEL repository for CentOS / Red Hat 7.x | Using a web-browser, go to http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/Packages/p/and determine the filename of the PuTTY package. It will be in the format putty-<version>.el7.x86_64.rpm |
| 3 | Install PuTTY. | # Current Red Hat and CentOS versions (version 7 example): # yum install Up-to-date information can be found on the following page: https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm Additionally recommended on Red Hat 7 (as EPEL packages may depend on the extras repositories:
Up-to-date information can be found on the following page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL |
| 3 | Install PuTTY. | # yum install putty |
| 4 | If you used PuTTY before, you will have a .putty or .config/putty directory under your home directory already. If the PuTTY configuration directory does not already exist, create the .config/putty directory in the home directory of the root user. | Start PuTTY: Select and load the default settings. Click on Save. Exit PuTTY. |
| 5 | Copy the Charon-PAR profiles to the PuTTY sessions directory of the root user (depending on where you stored you session data). |
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PuTTY installation steps CentOS/Red Hat 8.x:
At the time of writing, PuTTY is not yet included in the CentOS and Red Hat EPEL version 8 repositories. However, it is possible to install the package from the EPEL repository for Linux version 7 using the following steps:
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| 3 | Install PuTTY. | # yum install putty |
| 4 | If you used PuTTY before, you will have a .putty or .config/putty directory under your home directory already. If the PuTTY configuration directory does not already exist, create the .config/putty directory in the home directory of the root user. | Start PuTTY: Select and load the default settings. Click on Save. Exit PuTTY. |
| 5 | Copy the Charon-PAR profiles to the PuTTY sessions directory of the root user (depending on where you stored you session data). |
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Please note: in some versions of CentOS/RHEL 8 PuTTY was not included in the EPEL repository. In such cases, the version from RHEL/CentOS 7 could be used.
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Installing the Linux Toolkit
This is not a mandatory, but a recommended step.
The Linux Toolkit support the management of emulator related tasks, such as
- License Management
- Starting and stopping the emulator
- Log file monitoring
- Alert management
- Information collection to facilitate product suppprt
Stromasys will provide you with a download link for the Linux Toolkit.
Please refer to Charon-PAR Linux Toolkit for further information.
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