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Today, let us see how our Support Techs install it.

OnApp install Control Panel Server

Today, let us see the steps followed by our Support Techs to install Control Panel Server on OnApp.

1.Firstly, update your server:

# yum update

2.Then, download OnApp YUM repository file:

# rpm -Uvh http://rpm.repo.onapp.com/repo/onapp-repo-6.0.noarch.rpm

3.Next, install OnApp Control Panel installer package:

#> yum install onapp-cp-install

4.You can optionally apply the Control Panel custom configuration.

It is important to set the custom values before the installer script runs.

Edit the /onapp/onapp-cp.conf file to set Control Panel custom values

Template server URL

TEMPLATE_SERVER_URL='http://templates-manager.onapp.com/'

IPs (separated with coma) list for the snmp to trap

SNMP_TRAP_IPS=

OnApp Control Panel custom version

ONAPP_VERSION=

OnApp MySQL/MariaDB connection data (database.yml)

ONAPP_CONN_WAIT_TIMEOUT=15
ONAPP_CONN_POOL=30
ONAPP_CONN_RECONNECT='true'
ONAPP_CONN_ENCODING='utf8'
ONAPP_CONN_SOCKET='/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock'

MySQL/MariaDB server configuration data (in case of local server)

MYSQL_WAIT_TIMEOUT=604800
MYSQL_MAX_CONNECTIONS=500
MYSQL_PORT=3306

Use MariaDB instead of MySQL as OnApp database server

WITH_MARIADB=0

Configure the database server relative amount of available RAM

TUNE_DB_SERVER=0

The number of C data structures that can allocate before triggering the garbage collector. It defaults to 8 million

RUBY_GC_MALLOC_LIMIT=16000000

sysctl.conf net.core.somaxconn value

NET_CORE_SOMAXCONN=2048

The root of OnApp database dump directory (on the Control Panel box)

ONAPP_DB_DUMP_ROOT=

Remote server’s (to store database dumps) IP, user, path, openssh connection options ans number of dumps to keep

DB_DUMP_SERVER=
DB_DUMP_USER=root
DB_DUMP_SERVER_ROOT=/onapp/backups
DB_DUMP_SERVER_SSH_OPT="-o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o PasswordAuthentication=no"
KEEP_DUMPS=168
DB_DUMP_CRON='40 * * * *'

Enable monit – tool for managing and monitoring Unix systems

ENABLE_MONIT=1

If enabled (the 1 value is set) – install (if local box) and configures RabbitMQ Server (messaging system) for the vCloud support.

ENABLE_RABBITMQ=1

Rotate transactions’ log files created more then TRANS_LOGS_ROTATE_TIME day(s) ago

TRANS_LOGS_ROTATE_TIME=30

Maximum allowed for uploading file size in bytes.

MAX_UPLOAD_SIZE=1073741824

Timeout before ping Redis Server to check if it is started. Default is 5 sec.

REDIS_PING_TIMEOUT=5

# OnApp Control Panel SSL certificates (please do not change if you aren’t familar with SSL certificates)
# * The data below to generate self-signed PEM-encoded X.509 certificate

SSL_CERT_COUNTRY_NAME=UK
SSL_CERT_ORGANIZATION_NAME='OnApp Limited'
SSL_CERT_ORGANIZATION_ALUNITNAME='OnApp Cloud'
SSL_CERT_COMMON_NAME=`hostname --fqdn 2>/dev/null`

# SSLCertificateFile, SSLCertificateKeyFile Apache directives’ values
# ssl_certificate, ssl_certificate_key Nginx directives’ values

SSLCERTIFICATEFILE=/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca.crt
SSLCERTIFICATECSRFILE=/etc/pki/tls/private/ca.csr
SSLCERTIFICATEKEYFILE=/etc/pki/tls/private/ca.key

# * PEM-encoded CA Certificate (if custom one exists)
# SSLCACertificateFile, SSLCertificateChainFile Apache directives’ values
# ssl_client_certificate Nginx directives’ values

SSLCACERTIFICATEFILE=
SSLCERTIFICATECHAINFILE=

# SSLCipherSuite, SSLProtocol Apache directives’ values
# ssl_ciphers, ssl_protocols Nginx directives’ values

SSLCIPHERSUITE=
SSLPROTOCOL=

# vi /onapp/onapp-cp.conf

5.Then, run the Control Panel installer.

#> /onapp/onapp-cp-install/onapp-cp-install.sh -i SNMP_TRAP_IPS

6.Install CloudBoot dependencies.

#> yum install onapp-store-install

#> /onapp/onapp-store-install/onapp-store-install.sh

7.Then, install OnApp license to activate the Control Panel.

Enter a valid license key via the Web UI.

Your default OnApp login is admin/changeme. You can change the password via the Control Panel’s Users and Groups menu in the Control Panel.

8.Once you have entered a license it can take up to 15 minutes to activate.

Finally, restart the OnApp service:

#> service onapp restart

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Conclusion

In short, today we saw how our Support Techs install Control Panel Server on OnApp.

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