Installation and Deployment
This chapter describes the steps that have to be executed when installing nevisProxy. The package is operating-system-specific and uses the package mechanism of the target OS. It may also be provided in various flavors (i.e. with customer-specific modifications).
Prerequisites
The following requirements need to be fulfilled to install nevisProxy:
- Linux (RHEL 8, RHEL 9, SLES 15) operating system (64bit) on a host with ~60MB of free space in the installation directory and ~20MB of free space in the spool directory.
If you want to use all the features that nevisProxy provides, it is necessary to install the MariaDB libraries mariadb .
- Use the following command to install the MariaDB libaries on RHEL 8 and RHEL 9:
yum install mariadb
- Use the following command to install the MariaDB libaries on SLES 15:
zypper install mariadb
Installation
Use the following command to install the package and start the server:
rpm -i nevisproxy<version>-1.<flavour>.<architecture>.rpm
If no configuration package is provided for nevisProxy, proceed as described in the chapter Preparing the initial installation .
Software upgrade
Proceed as follows to upgrade to a new software version without changing the configuration:
- Deinstall the old package.
- Install the new package.
Deinstallation
Use the following command to deinstall the nevisProxy package:
rpm -e nevisproxy