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COMETS Server
Installation Manual

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Table of contents
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System Requirement................................................................................................................ 1

Install MySQL 4.1.12................................................................................................................ 3

Install COMETS Server........................................................................................................... 4

COMETS System Setting.......................................................................................................

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1 System Requirement

Operating System Redhat Verson 3 or above.

Hard drive space allocation

Create a /COMETS directory on an independent disk or partition. It must have at lease 200G bytes of
free space and set the access permission to 755.
If no independent disk is dedicated to install the COMETS server, then you could also create a
/COMETS directory at / root directory.
Enter commands on prompt:
# mkdir /COMETS
# chmod 755 /COMETS

Setup FTP Server

gssftp server will be used provided in Redhat. If other FTP server (eg. WS FTP) is also install on the
same machine, then it has be closed. Use ntsysv command to start or close FTP Server service.
Modify gssftp setting
# vi /etc/xinetd.d/gssftp
Original setting:
server_args = -l -a
disable = yes
Modifiy to:
server_args = -l
disable = no
If SE is installed in Redhat, need to modified setting that relates to it.
# vi /etc/selinux/config
Original Setting:
SELINUX=enforcing
Modify to:
SELINUX=disable
# vi /boot/grub/menu.lst
Original Setting:
kernel ........ rhgb quiet
Modify to:
kernel ........ rhgb selinux=0
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If firewall is installed in Redhat, then close fireweall.

Go to main UI menu: system --> administration --> security level and firewall --> close firewall
Restart to re-launch services after finishing setting.
# /sbin/service xinetd restart

Setup Telnet (to allow remote maintenance)

Telnet Server will be use to allowed remote login to maintain the COMETS system.
Modify telnet setting
# vi /etc/xinetd.d/telnet
Original setting:
disable = yes
Modify to:
disable = no
# vi /etc/pam.d/login
Original setting:
auth

required

pam_securetty.so

Modify to:
#auth

required

pam_securetty.so

Delete security setting

# mv /etc/securetty /etc/securetty.bak
Restart services after finishing up setting
# /sbin/service xinetd restart

Upload installation files

Upload COMETSServerSetup.tar.gz file to the /COMETS directory.

Decompress COMETSServerSetup.tar.gz file:
# tar -zxvf /COMETS/ COMETSServerSetup .tar.gz
# cd /COMETS/setup

Configure Host name

In main UI menu, go to System Administration Network DNS Hostname input systems

hostname

Modify hosts setting (very important)

# vi /etc/hosts
Original setting:
127.0.0.1

localhost.localdomain

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Modify to:
x.x.x.x (IP address) localhost.localdomain

hostname

And add:
127.0.0.1 localhost

2 Install MySQL 4.1.12

cd /COMETS/setup

Check if mysql has been installed :

# rpm -q MySQL-server
# rpm -q MySQL-client
If already installed

remove it:

# rpm -e MySQL-client
# rpm -e MySQL-server
# rpm rebuilddb

Install MySQL 4.1.12 :

# rpm -ivh MySQL-server-4.1.12-1.i386.rpm

# rpm -ivh MySQL-client-4.1.12-1.i386.rpm

Change MySQL directory

# /sbin/service mysql stop

# cp -Rp /var/lib/mysql /COMETS/mysql
# cp -p my.cnf /etc/my.cnf
# /sbin/service mysql start

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3 Install COMETS Server

cd /COMETS/setup

Install COMETS DB & Program files

# ./setupDB.sh
# cp -Rp jre /COMETS/jre
# cp -Rp COMETSServer /COMETS/COMETSServer
# cp -Rp UpgradeServer /COMETS/UpgradeServer
# cp -Rp System_Backup /COMETS/System_Backup
# cp -Rp Habilis /COMETS/Habilis

Upload license to /COMETS/COMETSServer

Start COMETS Server

# cd /COMETS/COMETSServer
# nohup ./startCOMETSSystem.sh &

Start COMETS client to test. If failed

check

/COMETS/COMETSServer/nohup.out error outputs/

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4 COMETS System Setting

Setup COMETS Server to automatically start at startup.

# vi /etc/rc.local
Add following command lines:
cd /COMETS/COMETSServer
nohup ./startCOMETSSystem.sh &
cd /COMETS/UpgradeServer
nohup ./startUpgradeServer.sh &

Create a user account of CCU in the FTP server of COMETS (For use of CCU and RCU
firmware upgrade)

# useradd -d /COMETS/Habilis habilis (create habilis account)

# passwd habilis (set password to :silibah)
# cd /COMETS/Habilis
# chown habilis habilis-c (change owner)
# chgrp habilis habilis-c (change group ownership)
# chown habilis habilis-c+ (change owner)
# chgrp habilis habilis-c+ (change group ownership)

Setup routing tasks(database backup / ntp time synchornization)

# vi /etc/crontab
Add following setting
00 3 * * * root /COMETS/System_Backup/dumpDB.sh
00 5 * * * root /usr/sbin/ntpdate <NTP Server IP> && /sbin/hwclock w

Delete installation files

# rm /COMETS/ COMETSServerSetup.tar.gz
# rm -rf /COMETS/setup

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