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=== Installation of Affa 3 ===
=== Installation of Affa 3 ===
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The following instructions assume that a fresh Affa 3 installation is made with no jobs migrated from Affa 2.
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The following instructions assume that a fresh Affa 3 installation is made on a fresh dedicated SME server which serves as a dedicated backup server ('affabox‘). No jobs are migrated from Affa 2.
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Login as root on local or remote SSH console. Then create dedicated directory for Affa 3 files and go to there:
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Setup a dedicated machine with SME 8.1 or SME 9.0 from CDROM. Use the following example settings:
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<ol><li>Domain name: athome.xx (use your existing domain name)</li>
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<li>Host name: affabox (must not match to existing host)</li>
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<li>IP address: 192.168.0.10 (must not match to existing IP address)</li>
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<li>Subnet: 255.255.255.0</li>
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<li>role: Server only</li>
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<li>Gateway: 192.168.0.1 (use your existing gateway)</li>
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<li>DHCP: DEactivate</li>
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<li>DNS server: 192.168.0.1 (use your existing DNS server)</li>
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<li>activate changes: yes</li>
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<li>The fresh server will then restart with the above settings.</li>
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</ol>
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To update your server, login as user root on local console. Use 'top' command to display running jobs. Wait until 'yum' stopped running.
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yum clean all
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yum update
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The fresh server will be updated.
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signal-event post-upgrade
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signal-event reboot
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The server will reboot.
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Login as root on local or remote SSH console of ''affabox''. Then create dedicated directory for Affa 3 files and go to there:
mkdir /root/affa3
mkdir /root/affa3
cd /root/affa3
cd /root/affa3
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where ''sme-backup'' is your jobname, and add content as described below.
where ''sme-backup'' is your jobname, and add content as described below.
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=== Quick start example ===
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==== Quick start example ====
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You have a SME 7 production server with hostname 'prodbox‘ and IP 10.200.48.1.<br>
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You have a SME production server with hostname 'smeserver‘ and IP 192.168.0.2.<br>
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Set up a second SME 7 box as your backupserver with hostname 'affabox‘ and IP 10.200.48.2.
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Set up a second SME box as your backupserver with hostname 'affabox‘ and IP 192.168.0.10.
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<ol></li><li>log into the 'affabox' and install the packages as described above.
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<ol></li><li>log into the 'affabox' as root and edit.
</li><li>copy the config helper script sample
</li><li>copy the config helper script sample
cp /usr/lib/affa/jobconfig-sample.pl /root/prodbox-job.pl
cp /usr/lib/affa/jobconfig-sample.pl /root/prodbox-job.pl