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Overview

The Charon-SSP Manager is the main interface for managing the emulated SPARC systems running on a Charon-SSP 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 VPC 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)

This section briefly describes the installation on Linux. For more information and the features of the Charon Manager, please refer to the regular user's guide of your product.

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:

You can request a download link from your Stromasys representative or Stromasys VAR.

However, the packages are also included in the Charon-SSP VPC installation kit. Once the Charon-SSP VPC packages have been installed on the Charon host system, you can download the Charon-SSP Manager packages from the running instance:

• Connect to the IP address of the instance via SFTP using the management user of the instance and the private key assigned during launch:
  $ sftp -i <path-to-private-key><mgmt-user>@<ip-of-charon-vpc-host>
  
• Change your working directory to the Charon Agent hierarchy:
  # cd /opt/charon-agent/ssp-agent/bin
• Download the required package:
  sftp> get charon-manager-ssp-<version>.[rpm | deb]

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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>

The Charon Manager is installed under /opt/charon-manager/ssp-manager/. It can be started using the command

$ /opt/charon-manager/ssp-manager/ssp-manager

Example (RPM):

# yum install charon-manager-ssp-4.1.13.rpm 
Loaded plugins: langpacks, product-id, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager
Examining charon-manager-ssp-4.1.13.rpm: charon-manager-ssp-4.1.13-1.x86_64
Marking charon-manager-ssp-4.1.13.rpm to be installed
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package charon-manager-ssp.x86_64 0:4.1.13-1 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 4.1.13-1 /charon-manager-ssp-4.1.13 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-4.1.13-1.x86_64 1/1 
Verifying : charon-manager-ssp-4.1.13-1.x86_64 1/1

Installed:
charon-manager-ssp.x86_64 0:4.1.13-1

Complete!

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