Toolpack prerequisite CentOS5 2-5 manual

This page shows how to manually install the prerequisites for Toolpack 2-5 on CentOS 5.x (instead of using the repository procedure)

Toolpack Prerequisites

Toolpack Basic packages

The software listed below is required by the host machines.

 yum install gcc zlib-devel gdbm

Toolpack System Database

The Toolpack system database is used by the main host and requires mySQL database server. The system database packages are as follows:

 yum install mysql-server mysql-devel

Depending on the CentOS installation, the command paths for the database (i.e. mysql_install_db, mysqladmin, mysql) and system tools (chkconfig, service, etc) may not be included in the active PATH environment variable. MySql is usually installed in /usr/bin and system tools in sbin.

1. start and enable mysql

 /sbin/chkconfig mysqld on
/sbin/service mysqld start

2. Setup initial database root password

 /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password tbdbpw

IMPORTANT: Please read the 'Securing the Initial MySQL Accounts' article to learn how to manage users and privileges.

3. Install the database.

 mysql_install_db

4. Configure MySQL Users

• Set password for the root user to 'tbdbpw' (TelcoBridges recommends that you set your own password for root)
• Enable root connection from localhost only
• Create a tbdb user (required by Toolpack)
• Remove anonymous connection

Example:

/usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password tbdbpw

mysql -uroot -ptbdbpw
DELETE FROM mysql.user WHERE !(Host = 'localhost' AND User = 'root');
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
CREATE USER 'tbdb'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'tbdbpw';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'tbdb'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'tbdbpw';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit

To verify if the user is created:

mysql -uroot -ptbdbpw
SELECT * FROM mysql.user;
exit

5.Install odbc driver and driver manager

 yum install mysql-connector-odbc

5a. For 32 bits system:

 wget http://download.distribution.telcobridges.com/3rdparty/prerequisite/bin/linux/mysql-connector-odbc-3.51.27-linux-x86-32bit.tar.gz
tar -zxf mysql-connector-odbc-3.51.27-linux-x86-32bit.tar.gz
mkdir -p /lib/tb/toolpack/3rdparty/odbc-connector/
cp mysql-connector-odbc-3.51.27-linux-x86-32bit/lib/libmyodbc3_r-3.51.27.so /lib/tb/toolpack/3rdparty/odbc-connector/

5b. For 64 bits system:

 wget http://download.distribution.telcobridges.com/3rdparty/prerequisite/bin/linux/mysql-connector-odbc-3.51.27-linux-x86-64bit.tar.gz
tar -zxf mysql-connector-odbc-3.51.27-linux-x86-64bit.tar.gz
mkdir -p /lib/tb/toolpack/3rdparty/odbc-connector/
cp mysql-connector-odbc-3.51.27-linux-x86-64bit/lib/libmyodbc3_r-3.51.27.so /lib/tb/toolpack/3rdparty/odbc-connector/

6. Manually configure the odbc manager. Make sure mysql driver is enable(removing the comments for the mysql driver). Set the Driver as the previous command answer.

 vim /etc/odbcinst.ini 

Here is an example:

 # Driver from the MyODBC package
# Setup from the unixODBC package
[MySQL]                                                   <----- This line must NOT start with a '#'
Description     = ODBC for MySQL
Driver          = /lib/tb/toolpack/3rdparty/odbc-connector/libmyodbc3_r-3.51.27.so
Setup           = /usr/lib/libodbcmyS.so
FileUsage       = 1

7. Configure mysql to support database replication (Will not interfere if your system do not use it).

 vim /etc/my.cnf

Add 2 new variable in the mysql config file

Add log-bin and server-id. The value of server-id needs to be unique on each host( do not use 0 ).

Make sure it is in the [mysqld] section

 log-bin
server-id=[UniqueId]

#Added to remove mysql dependency on DNS/nameserver
skip-name-resolve

Example:

 [root@TL-CENTOS64-02 tblab]# cat /etc/my.cnf
[mysqld]
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
user=mysql
log-bin
server-id=1

#Added to remove mysql dependency on DNS/nameserver
skip-name-resolve

# Default to using old password format for compatibility with mysql 3.x
# clients (those using the mysqlclient10 compatibility package).
old_passwords=1

[mysqld_safe]
log-error=/var/log/mysqld.log
pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
[root@TL-CENTOS64-02 tblab]#

Reboot the mysql service

/sbin/service mysqld restart

Toolpack System Web Portal

The Toolpack System Web Portal is required in order to host the Toolpack Web Portal. It requires the execution of all following commands:

1. Manually install fcgi:

 wget http://download.distribution.telcobridges.com/3rdparty/prerequisite/src/centos/fcgi-2.4.0.tar.gz
tar -xzf fcgi-2.4.0.tar.gz
cd fcgi-2.4.0
./configure
make
make install
cd ../

2. Install the following packages:

 yum install pcre libxml2 openssl-devel bzip2-libs

3. Install lighttpd:

3a. For 32 bits sytem:

 wget -c http://download.distribution.telcobridges.com/3rdparty/prerequisite/bin/centos/lighttpd-1.4.18-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
wget http://download.distribution.telcobridges.com/3rdparty/prerequisite/bin/centos/lighttpd-fastcgi-1.4.18-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh lighttpd-1.4.18-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm lighttpd-fastcgi-1.4.18-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

3b. For 64 bits sytem:

 wget -c http://download.distribution.telcobridges.com/3rdparty/prerequisite/bin/centos/lighttpd-1.4.18-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
wget http://download.distribution.telcobridges.com/3rdparty/prerequisite/bin/centos/lighttpd-fastcgi-1.4.18-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
rpm -ivh lighttpd-1.4.18-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm lighttpd-fastcgi-1.4.18-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm

4. Install ruby

wget http://download.distribution.telcobridges.com/3rdparty/prerequisite/src/centos/ruby-1.8.7-p299.tar.gz
tar -zxf ruby-1.8.7-p299.tar.gz
cd ruby-1.8.7-p299

For 32 bits system:

 ./configure --libdir=/usr/local/lib  --enable-shared

For 64 bits system:

./configure --libdir=/usr/local/lib64 --enable-shared

Then, execute the following for either 32 or 64 bits system:

make
make install
cd ext/openssl/
ruby extconf.rb
make
make install
cd ../../..
ln -s /usr/local/bin/ruby /usr/bin/ruby

For 32 bits system:

ln -s /usr/local/lib/libruby.so.1.8 /lib/libruby.so.1.8

For 64 bits system:

 ln -s /usr/local/lib64/libruby.so.1.8 /lib64/libruby.so.1.8

5. Install RubyGems 1.3.7

 wget http://download.distribution.telcobridges.com/3rdparty/prerequisite/src/centos/rubygems-1.3.7.tgz
tar -zxf rubygems-1.3.7.tgz
cd rubygems-1.3.7
ruby setup.rb
cd ..

6. Install gem fcgi

 /usr/local/bin/gem install fcgi

Make sure that the firewall enables these following services and ports. Failure to open those ports will render socket communication between the distributed software elements unavailable.

Service: http (12358/tcp)

Port: All ports (tcp/udp) enabled for local networks

Make sure that SELinux is disabled.

Toolpack Stream Server

The Tmedia Toolpack Stream Server requires the execution of the following commands:

 yum install libpcap

Toolpack Development Prerequisite

The Toolpack System Development prerequisite section is only required for customers that will develop their own application using the Toolpack API:

 yum install gcc-c++ libxml2-devel libpcap-devel unixODBC-devel

Validation Guide (highly recommended)

If you would like to verify your installation go to the Toolpack Validation Guide

Toolpack System installation

Now that the prerequisite are installed, now it is time to install the Toolpack system