Now that you have launched your cloud instance and learned how to access it, you can continue with the next steps.

 This chapter only provides a brief outline of how to continue. For more information, please refer to the Oracle Cloud documentation and the general CHARON-SSP documentation provided by Stromasys.

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Obtaining a Charon-SSP License

Charon-SSP/4M for OCI contains the license drivers and license management tools. However, you need to obtain an appropriate product license from either your Stromasys representative or your Stromasys VAR. They will help you to select the appropriate license option and provide you with a license.

The Charon Manager provides tools to install, view, and update licenses in Tools > License Tools. The license management chapter in the general Charon-SSP user's guide provides details.

Creating an Emulated SPARC System

To create your emulated SPARC system, open the Charon Manager and click on Create a New Virtual Machine (VM) on the welcome screen. This will allow you to enter a name for your emulated SPARC system and confirm the creation of the virtual machine as shown below:

Configuring the Emulated System

The newly created system has only a template configuration. Therefore, you have to configure the virtual hardware as required before using the emulated system.

Select your virtual SPARC in the manager and click on Edit Virtual Machine on the Summary tab as illustrated below.

This will open the configuration window. Please refer to the general Charon-SSP user's guide for configuration details and how to start and stop the emulated system.

Copying Installation Media and Data Backups for Migration to the Instance

There are different methods to copy files to the Charon cloud instance. One way is to use SFTP as described in SFTP File Transfer.

Creating a VPN Connection between Your Internal Network and the Cloud Instance

There are different VPN options. The customer is responsible for ensuring that any VPN solution meets the requirements of his or her company’s security guidelines. The example shown in the Charon documentation is only for illustrative purposes.

Charon Manager provides support for setting up a simple SSH based VPN tunnel between the Charon host in the cloud and a remote Linux system in the customer network. This connection can be used, for example, to transfer files, to access applications on the guest system running in the emulated SPARC, or for accessing a network-enabled license located in the customer network.

The appendix provides an introduction to this configuration.