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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 on customer premises 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)

The Charon Manager for Microsoft Windows will be available in a future version.

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]

Additional Prerequisite Considerations for Installation on Charon Host

When installing the Charon Manager on the Charon-SSP host in the cloud (for example to display it via a remote X11-connection) instead of on a local management system, additional packages may have to be installed that normally are already available in a workstation environment.  In the current version, the Charon-SSP manager installation does not check these dependencies. 

In particular, the Charon-SSP Manager requires the following packages:

• libX11
• xorg-x11-server-utils
• gtk2
• libssh2
• xorg-x11-xauth

The packages above have their own dependencies. Install the above packages with the yum command in order to have their dependencies automatically installed. If your server does not have access to the standard operating system repositories, refer to this document for instructions on setting up a local repositories.

The exact list of additionally required packages depends on what is already installed on the server.

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 (Ubuntu):
    # dpkg -i <filename-of-package>

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 4.2 M

Transaction Summary
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Install 1 Package

Total size: 4.2 M
Installed size: 4.2 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!