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Emulator to run

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AlphaServer 400

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AlphaServer 800

as1000

AlphaServer 1000

as1000a

AlphaServer 1000A

as2000

AlphaServer 2000

as2100

AlphaServer 2100

as4000

AlphaServer 4000

as4100

AlphaServer 4100

ds10

AlphaServer DS10

ds10l

AlphaServer DS10L

ds15

AlphaServer DS15

ds20

AlphaServer DS20

ds25

AlphaServer DS25

es40

AlphaServer ES40

es45

AlphaServer ES45

gs80

AlphaServer GS80

gs160

AlphaServer GS160

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AlphaServer GS320

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Running CHARON-AXP emulators

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Please refer to the next chapters for more details concerning CHARON-AXP configuration details.

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Running from the console

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(warning) Please note that before stopping CHARON-AXP, a clean shutdown of the operating system running on the virtual machine has to be performed.

Warning

The total number of devices (both controllers and units, including disks) displayed by CHARON SRM console is limited to 48. Note that it does not affect the actual number of configured devices provided to CHARON guest OS.


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Running as system service (daemon)

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  1. Copy the sample script "/opt/charon/bin/charon.service" ( "/opt/charon/bin/charon" for Red Hat  Linux 6.x) to thr "/usr/lib/systemd/system/" directory (or to your home directory for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x).

    Example:

    Red Hat Linux 6.x

    $ cp /opt/charon/bin/charon /my_services/es40_service
    $ chmod 755 /my_services/es40_service

    Red Hat Linux 7.x and CentOS 7.x

    $ cp /opt/charon/bin/charon.service /usr/lib/systemd/system/es40.service
    $ chmod 755 /usr/lib/systemd/system/es40.service


  2. Edit the renamed file to replace sample values of the following parameters.

    Example:

    Red Hat Linux 6.x

    exec="/opt/charon/bin/es40"
    prog="my_es40"
    config="/my_services/es40-service.cfg"

    Red Hat Linux 7.x and CentOS 7.x

    ExecStart=/opt/charon/bin/es40 -d /my_services/es40-service.cfg
    WorkingDirectory=/my_services

    (warning) "my_es40" is a service name in the example above

              

  3. Create and edit the configuration file ( "/my_services/es40-service.cfg" in the examples above) the way it was described before and make sure the following pre-requisites are met:

    • OPA0 must be configured as a virtual port or physical console, not as an operator console.

      Example:

      load virtual_serial_line OPA0 port=10003
      #load operator_console OPA0


    • Use only absolute paths to log, toy clock, nvram files and all the other data such as disk images, etc. The names of the references files must be unique.

      Example:

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      set session log="/CharonInstances/1st_es40.log"
      set rom container="/CharonInstances/1st_es40.bin"
      set toy container="/CharonInstances/1st_es40.dat"

      set PKA container[0]="/CharonInstances/1st_es40_boot_disk.vdisk"

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    • Make sure the same physical devices are not used by other CHARON-AXP daemons and the OPA0 console port number is unique across the CHARON server.

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Once the configuration file is ready, execute the following commands (based on the examples above) to install and start CHARON-AXP as a daemon:

Red Hat Linux 6.x

# ln -sf /my_services/es40_service /etc/init.d/es40_service
# chkconfig es40_service on
# service es40_service start

Red Hat Linux 7.x and CentOS 7.x

# systemctl enable es40.service
# systemctl start es40.service

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Warning

Note that a certain delay may appear in finding network licenses by Sentinel Run-time on CHARON-AXP host system startup. If the CHARON-AXP service is starting automatically at host system startup, it may report a "License not found" error and exit.

This problem can be avoided by specifying the "license_key_lookup_retry" parameter in the following way:

set session license_key_lookup_retry = "N [, T]"

where:

  • N = Number of retries looking for the license key (or keys)
  • T =Time between retries in seconds. If not specified, 60 seconds is used

Example:

set session license_key_lookup_retry = 5

In this example, if the license key is not found during initial scan, CHARON-AXP will do 5 more attempts waiting 60 seconds between them.

See General Settings section for more details.


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Stopping CHARON-AXP service

To stop a CHARON-AXP daemon, use the following commands.

Example:

Red Hat Linux 6.x

# service es40_service stop

Red Hat Linux 7.x and CentOS 7.x

# systemctl stop es40

(warning) Please note that before stopping a CHARON-AXP service, a clean shutdown of the operating system running on the virtual machine has to be performed.

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Removing CHARON-AXP service

To remove a CHARON-AXP daemon use the following commands.

Example:

Red Hat Linux 6.x

# chkconfig es40_service off
# chkconfig --del es40_service
# rm -f /etc/init.d/es40_service

Red Hat Linux 7.x and CentOS 7.x

# systemctl disable es40.service
# rm -f /usr/lib/systemd/system/es40.service 

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