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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.
Please note: The Charon-PAR version 3.0 and higher emulator kits contain the haspvlib library and the hasp_srm_view and hasp_update utilities. This means that there may be installation conflicts with other Charon emulator products on the same host systems. Such conflicts can be overcome either by not installing the conflicting modules of the other products (if possible), or by forcing the installation of the Charon-PAR kit. Please refer to the documentation of your host system (man rpm) in such cases and ensure that this will not negatively influence any other installed products. If you use the --force option for an installation, please uninstall older packages of the same product before.
Charon-PAR Software Packages Overview
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The following table lists the required installation packages (the placeholder <version> denotes the version of the package, for example, 3.0.13):
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| Sentinel runtime environment. Required for licensing the Charon-PAR software. | ||||
aksusbd-7.63-1.i386.rpm | 32-bit package for CentOS/RHEL 7.x; requires the 32-bit glibc package. | |||
aksusbd-8.13-1.x86_64.rpm | 64-bit package for RHEL 7.7 and higher; RHEL 8; CentOS 8. (see also https://docs.sentinel.thalesgroup.com/ldk/LDKdocs/rte/linux-rh-suse-centos.html) | |||
| Charon-PAR tape utilityemulator | ||||
charon-mtdpar-<version>.el7.x86_64.rpm | Charon-PAR tape utility for CentOS/RHEL emulator executable, template configuration files for the different supported hardware models, PuTTY configurations, etc. for Linux 7.x systems. | |||
charon-mtdpar-<version><version>.el8.x86_64.rpm | Charon-PAR tape utility for CentOS/RHEL emulator executable, template configuration files for the different supported hardware models, PuTTY configurations, etc. for Linux 8.x systems. | |||
| Charon-PAR emulatorutilities | ||||
charon- | parmtd-<version>.el7.x86_64.rpm | Charon-PAR | emulator executable, template configuration files for the different supported hardware models, PuTTY configurations, etc. for Linuxtape utility for CentOS/RHEL 7.x | systems.|
charon- | parmtd- | <version><version>.el8.x86_64.rpm | Charon-PAR | emulator executable, template configuration files for the different supported hardware models, PuTTY configurations, etc. for Linux 8.x systems.tape utility for CentOS/RHEL 8.x |
xhpterm-free-<version>.el7.x86_64.rpm | Terminal emulation for block mode applications (CentOS/RHEL 7.x) | |||
xhpterm-free-<version>.el7.x86_64.rpm | Terminal emulation for block mode applications (CentOS/RHEL 8.x) | |||
Obtaining the Charon-PAR software:
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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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| Installation Option | Description |
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| Package manager (uses repositories, takes care of dependencies, etc.) |
On Linux 8.x, replace yum with dnf. if a filename is specified, locally stored RPM packages can be installed. |
| Command to install individual local packages. | # rpm -i </path/to/package> |
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| 1 | Log in as the privileged user on the system ("root"). | |
| 2 | Go to the directory in which the rpm packages were stored. | # |
| 3 | Install the Charon-PAR emulator and utilities packages. | #
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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/
.config/putty/sessionsCentOS 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
Please refer to Charon-PAR Linux Toolkit for further information.- 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.
- 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.
Sentinel License Driver Post-Installation Tasks
The following post-installation tasks are strongly recommended to improve security and to enable additional trouble-shooting options:
- Protect remote access to the Sentinel Admin Control center: see Security Settings for Sentinel Admin Control Center in the HASP Licensing handboook under Licensing Documentation.
- Enable access and error logging for the license driver: see Enabling logging in Sentinel Admin Control Center
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