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Install Software

You upload and install your software product on the appliance. To begin, you identify the applications and their licensing and distribution requirements that are needed for your appliance.

The most flexible and efficient method for installing software to your appliance is to use the ssh interface and scp (secure copy) command. If you are using Windows, verify that you are using a true scp client, not sftp.

Important! You must have maintainer access to the grid.

Follow these steps:

1. Set up SSH access to the grid.
2. Configure the SSH client on your workstation.
3. Place your application-specific software on your workstation.
4. Verify your class volume is read/writable.
5. From the GUI, start the appliance.
6. Log in to the grid shell and execute the following command:

   ssh appname:componentname 
   

   Root access to the appliance is provided.

   Note: You can also use the remote access shell macros (rmacros.sh) which provide the assh shell that includes the ascp command to copy a file. The rmacros.sh requires the bash shell and OpenSSH 3.9 or newer.

7. In the appliance, execute scp to transfer your application files to the appliance.
8. Log out of the grid shell. You do not need to stop the appliance.

Alternate Methods for Acquiring the Software

You can also use the following methods to get the software on to the appliance:

• Have temporary output on the appliance that is marked as a gateway output and is connected to a temporary instance of the NET gateway appliance. This way, you will have access to the Internet from the appliance and you can download various software packages directly from their distribution sites. For example, www.sourceforge.net and fedora.redhat.com. Do not forget to remove the temporary terminal from your appliance when done with the installation.
• Use the new vol manage command on the appliance boot volume by using the volume browser GUI only if the software you need to upload is 10MB or less. For larger software, you can use the volume manager shell. In the volume manager shell, you can use rsync to upload files to your volume.