Installing Control Center and Related Tasks

Standard Procedure

1. Install Control Center

   Important:

   Before you install Control Center, make sure that the system packages are up to date and there are no pending software upgrades or reboot requirements.

   You can upgrade ubuntu packages by running following commands and reboot if needed: the following commands to prepare your system:

   To install a Control Center:

   1. Compute the SHA256 checksum for the tar file and verify that it matches the checksum provided on the download page:

   2. Unpack the tarball:

   3. Install the Control Center package:

      Note:

      An error "Download is performed unsandboxed as root ..." may occur during this installation. This is a harmless warning and can be safely ignored.

2. Run the database migration.

   CAUTION:

   This is a sensitive command and time-consuming command. If you are running it on a remote machine, you can use a program like screen (generally installed by default on popular Linux distributions) or tmux (run sudo apt-get install tmux to install) so that the migrate session continues running even if the ssh session breaks.

   The ncc migrate command takes considerable time to execute (many minutes). It should print the following (details omitted below):

   After migration is complete, restart all Paragon Active Assurance services:

3. Install the Test Agent repositories and plugins.

   The plugins are used by Test Agent Applications.

   1. Compute SHA256 checksums for the repositories and verify that they match the SHA256 checksums provided on the download page:

   2. Install the packages:

      Note:

      A message similar to the following may appear during plugin installation. You can safely ignore the message.

   3. Configure the SITE_URL in /etc/netrounds/netrounds.conf. This URL is displayed in emails and reports.

   4. Restart all Paragon Active Assurance services for this change to take effect:

This concludes the installation of Control Center. Before you can log in to the system you also need to go through the chapter Getting Started with Paragon Active Assurance.

Installing ConfD

You can install ConfD only if you want to use the NETCONF & YANG API to communicate with Control Center. For more information, see the document Netconf & Yang API Orchestration.

ConfD (a product from Tail-f) is used as an intermediary between the Paragon Active Assurance system and NETCONF. ConfD connects Paragon Active Assurance configuration and operational data to the NETCONF & YANG API.

ConfD must be installed after Control Center has been installed.

Proceed as follows:

1. Get the Paragon Active Assurance NETCONF & YANG tarball:

2. Compute the SHA256 checksum for the tar file and verify that it matches the SHA256 checksum provided on the download page:

3. Unpack the tarball:

4. Install the paa-netconf-yang package:

Some configuration is needed once you have set up your Paragon Active Assurance account; see the Getting Started page.