Contents

Intended Audience

This Getting Started guide is intended for anyone who needs to install, configure, or manage the Stromasys Charon emulators in the IBM cloud. It can be used as a starting point for installations that use the prepackaged Charon marketplace images available on the IBM Cloud marketplace, or when creating a Linux server in the cloud for a conventional RPM installation of Charon emulator products. A general working knowledge of Linux and its conventions is expected.

Please note:

• This Getting Started guide is a generic guide for all Linux-based Charon emulator products that are to be run in the IBM cloud. Therefore, you will find that some of the content is not applicable to your product. The focus of the document is on the common aspects of implementing a Charon emulator in the IBM cloud.
• The descriptions in this Getting Started guide are for Charon host systems running a supported Linux operating system. Windows host systems are not within the scope of this guide.

Overview of the relevant documentation for Charon emulators in cloud environments:

• This Getting Started Guide covers basic cloud-specific aspects when installing a Charon emulator product in the cloud.
• The general User's Guides for each emulator product (please refer to the Stromasys documentation page) cover features, configuration, and management of the respective Charon emulator product.
• The VE License Server User's Guide in the Licensing Documentation section of the Stromasys Product Documentation site covers features, installation, and management of the VE (Virtual Environment) license server and the VE licenses.
• The Release Notes of your product provide important information regarding known problems and possible workarounds.

For additional information about this product, please contact Stromasys at the regional addresses listed below in Obtaining Technical Assistance, or contact your Stromasys VAR. 

Document Structure

The document contains the following main sections:

• Introduction to Charon Emulators: overview of emulator concepts.
• Creating an IBM Instance for an Emulator Host: basic steps to create and launch a Charon host system in the cloud.
• Installing the Charon-SSP Manager (Charon-SSP only): steps to install the main management tool for the cloud-based Charon-SSP host instance (if using the Charon-SSP emulator).
• Accessing the Charon Cloud Instance: explains how to use SSH, SFTP, and the Charon-SSP Manager to access the instance, and how to set the initial management password.
• Additional IBM Instance Configuration for Charon: steps to add additional storage and network interfaces; introduction to cloud-specific networking aspects.

Please note:

• Cloud providers may change their management GUI without prior warning. Hence, the screenshots in this document may not always reflect the latest GUI appearance of the cloud provider. However, they will still provide an illustration of the described configuration steps.

• In general, the sample outputs in this document may show different versions than the one documented in this manual, but they are still representative of what a user will see.

Related Documents

• Charon emulator documentation
• VE License Server User's Guide in Licensing Documentation