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Comment: Rename from The Opmantek Installer to The FirstWave Installer

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  • NMIS9 installed on the same server that opCharts is being installed (NMIS9 version >=9.1.0)
  • The individual performing this installation has a small bit of Linux experience.
  • Root access is available.

  • Internet access is required for installing any missing but required software packages.
  • opCharts License (evaluation available here).
  • All licenses are added/updated at https://<hostname>/omk/opLicense .

Preparation

  • For detailed information about FirstWave's interactive installer, including installation options (non-standard directory, non-interactive install, etc.)  please review the Opmantek Installer page.
  • If you do not yet have a working installation of NMIS in your server, please follow the procedure in the NMIS 9 Installation Guide.
  • Download opCharts from the Opmantek website.

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Transfer the opCharts installer file onto the server in question, either by direct download from the Opmantek FirstWave website, or from your desktop with scp or sftp or a similar file transfer tool.

  • Start the interactive installer and follow its instructions:

    Code Block
    sudo sh ./opCharts-Linux-x86_64-4.0.0.run
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    opCharts (4.0.0) Installation script
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    This installer will install opCharts into /usr/local/omk.
    To select a different installation location please rerun the
    installer with the -t option.
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  • The installer will interactively guide you through the steps of installing opCharts. Please make sure to read the on-screen prompts carefully.
  • When the installer finishes, opCharts is installed into /usr/local/omk, and the default configuration files are in /usr/local/omk/conf, ready for your initial adjustments.
  • A detailed log of the installation process is saved as /usr/local/omk/install.log, and subsequent upgrades or installations of other Opmantek FirstWave products will add to that log file.

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  • Authentication
    The installer will backup /usr/local/omk/conf/users.dat and then create a symlink to users.dat in your NMIS directory if it was found during installation.
    If the NMIS users.dat file could not be found during installation the existing users.dat file in /usr/local/omk/conf/ will be used.
    If /usr/local/omk/conf/users.dat is not found the default users.dat file will be copied to /usr/local/omk/conf/ from /usr/local/omk/install/.
    Default credentials can be found here.

Upgrade to version 4.2.0 and later

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Starting from version 4.2.0,  we have made significant changes on our internal shared code for all our applications to work on

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FirstWave's latest and fastest platform, however, previously installed product are not compatible with this version. 

To find out more about this upgrade please read: 

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