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Overview

The Charon-SSP Manager is the main interface for managing the emulated SPARC systems running on a Charon-SSP AWS EC2 host. Therefore, the Charon-SSP Manager must be installed on every local system that will be used to manage the Charon instances running on the Charon-SSP cloud host.

Stromasys provides Charon-SSP Manager installation packages for the following Linux distributions and versions as part of the Charon-SSP AWS distribution:

• Versions 7.x or higher of Oracle Linux (64 bit) version, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (64 bit), or CentOS (64 bit).
• Ubuntu 17 or higher (64 bit)

Should you require Charon Manager on Microsoft Windows, please contact Stromasys or your Stromasys VAR.

Installation Packages and Installation Steps

Installation Packages

Installation packages are available in RPM or Debian package formats:

• RPM package: charon-manager-ssp-<version>.rpm
• Debian package: charon-manager-ssp-<version>.deb

Obtaining the installation packages:

The packages are included in the Charon-SSP AWS AMI. Once a new instance has been launched, you can download the Charon-SSP Manager packages from the running instance:

• Connect to the public IP address of the instance via SFTP using the private key assigned during launch and the user charon:
  $ sftp -i <path-to-private-key> charon@<public-ip-of-aws-instance>
  
• Download the required package:
  sftp> get charon-manager-ssp-<version>.[rpm | deb]

Installation Steps on Linux

The following table describes the installation steps for Charon-SSP Manager:

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Go to the directory where the package has been stored:

# cd <package-location>

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For systems with RPM package management (Red Hat, CentOS):
    # yum install <filename-of-package>

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For systems with Debian package management (Debian, Ubuntu):
    # dpkg -i <filename-of-package>

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Example (RPM):

# yum install /media/sf_vmshare/charon-manager-ssp-4.0.5.rpm 
Loaded plugins: langpacks, product-id, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager
Examining /media/sf_vmshare/charon-manager-ssp-4.0.5.rpm: charon-manager-ssp-4.0.5-1.x86_64
Marking /media/sf_vmshare/charon-manager-ssp-4.0.5.rpm to be installed
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package charon-manager-ssp.x86_64 0:4.0.5-1 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

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Package Arch Version Repository Size
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Installing:
charon-manager-ssp x86_64 4.0.5-1 /charon-manager-ssp-4.0.5 4.4 M

Transaction Summary
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Install 1 Package

Total size: 4.4 M
Installed size: 4.4 M
Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
Downloading packages:
Running transaction check
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded
Running transaction
Installing : charon-manager-ssp-4.0.5-1.x86_64 1/1 
Verifying : charon-manager-ssp-4.0.5-1.x86_64 1/1

Installed:
charon-manager-ssp.x86_64 0:4.0.5-1

Complete!