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DPOD’s appliance installation is packaged as an ISO file, in order to support installation on both physical and virtual servers. It includes 2 steps:

  1. Operating System installation (a Rocky Linux operating system that is pre-loaded in the ISO file and is managed by DPOD).

  2. Software deployment

You MUST NOT add or install any packages / RPMs on the operating system that is managed by DPOD (for example, do not use yum install).
You MUST NOT update the Rocky Linux version or any other component within DPOD using external repositories (for example, do not use yum update).
The only supported way to upgrade the platform and/or components is by applying a product Fix Pack.

Obtain the Software

  1. Download the ISO file from Passport Advantage (file name is DPOD_Appliance_<VERSION>.iso).

  2. Download the activation key file from Passport Advantage (file name is DPOD-full-version-activation-key-<KEY-VERSION>.zip or DPOD-api-calls-activation-key-<KEY-VERSION>.zip).
    The activation key file is a password-protected zip file. Do not try to unzip the activation key zip file.

OS Deployment

Prerequisites

  1. The server needs to have 3 disks, as documented in Hardware and Software Requirements.

Initial Installation

  1. Set the DPOD ISO file on your virtual/physical server's DVD.

  2. Make sure the server boots using the UEFI firmware.

  3. Make sure the DVD is configured correctly in the server’s boot order.

  4. Power on the virtual/physical server.

  5. On the OS launch screen, choose “Install DPOD Appliance - Start” to start the automatic OS installation for Standard Edition (the Developer Edition should have a slightly different launch screen stating this is the Developer Edition):

  6. The required packages will now be installed. Wait for the installation to complete before proceeding (this should take a few minutes).

Network Configuration

When the OS installation completes, you will be presented with the Network Configuration screen, used to provide DPOD with the network information it requires.

  1. Enter DPOD's host name, e.g. dpod25min (you may add the host name to your organization's DNS).

  2. Enter the IPv4 address, e.g. 192.168.65.170

  3. Enter the network netmask, e.g. 255.255.255.0

  4. Enter the default gateway: e.g. 192.168.65.2

  5. Enter primary and secondary DNS server IP addresses (not mandatory)

  6. When the network data entry process is complete, DPOD echoes it back on the screen for verification and displays an 'Is this correct [y/n]' prompt.


    Enter “y” to confirm network details as entered or “n” to re-enter the information.

Setting Passwords

Set passwords for the users:

  1. Change DPOD's OS administrative user (productadm) password:

  2. Change root user passwor:

OS Installation Finalization

When you've completed all the steps above, before you press ENTER to restart the machine, you should disable/eject your DVD in the virtual or physical server so the installation is not launched again after the restart.

Press ENTER and wait for the server to restart.

Software Deployment

  1. Log in to the DPOD's server console with the user dpodadm(e.g.: using SSH, VMware console, a KVM switch, or the physical server console).

  2. Run lsblk and make sure the three required disks were mounted, and are in the correct order (OS, Install and Data disks, as explained on Hardware and Software Requirements).
    Run the following command to start DPOD application installation:

    sudo /opt/APPL-setup

  3. Follow the installation program for setup further configuration (e.g. to set NTP server and select the correct timezone).

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