NetOcean Installation on RHEL 7 Machine

Pre-requisites

Following are the pre-requisites for NetOcean installation on RHEL 7 machine:

Network Requirements

  • Port 80 and 4430 will be used by tomcat to open GUI.
  • Port 8080 and 8443 will be used by HPD for listening.

Software Requirements

  • gcc package version 4.8.5 or later is required on the RHEL machine.
  • rsync
  • setcap
  • netstat
  • tcpdump
  • pg_bulkload95
  • postgresql95-devel.x86_64
  • Make sure Postgressql 9.5 is installed on the RHEL machine.

Please refer the below link if it is not installed on the machine and follow all installation steps for RHEL 7:
https://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/redhat/

Steps to Install NetOcean

Follow the below-mentioned steps for NetOcean installation:

  1. Login the RHEL machine through the root user.
  2. Change in /var/lib/pgsql/9.5/data/pg_hba.conf
    Replace with trust as shown below:

# TYPE  DATABASE        USER            ADDRESS                 METHOD
   # “local” is for Unix domain socket connections only
    local   all             all                                     trust
    # IPv4 local connections:
    host    all             all             127.0.0.1/32            trust
    # IPv6 local connections:
    host    all             all             ::1/128                 trust   

  1. Restart Postgres by calling “systemctl restart postgresql-9.5“.
  2. Make cavisson_libs directory in /root/
  3. Copy cavbin (1.12.13.Redhat_64.bin) in /root/cavisson_libs
  4. Execute cavbin (./Cav4.1.12.13.Redhat_64.bin).
  5. The system prompts for few details as shown below:

Please enter your machine details. This is just an example:

Enter the NetOcean Admin Interface: enp0s3
Enter the NetOcean Admin IP (Enter in IP/Netbits format): 10.10.70.114/24
Enter the NetOcean Admin Gateway to reach NetOcean Admin IP (Enter -, if none): enp0s3
Enter the NetOcean Load Interface(s), if multiple enter as eth1|eth2 : –
Enter the NetOcean Admin Interface: enp0s3
Enter the NetOcean Admin IP (Enter in IP/Netbits format): 10.10.70.114/24
Enter the NetOcean Admin Gateway to reach NetStorm Admin IP (Enter -, if none): enp0s3
Enter the Netocean Load Interface(s), if multiple enter as eth1|eth2: –

This concludes the successful installation of NetOcean.

  • Please hit NetOcean IP from the browser.
  • Enter the User Name and Password.
  • Your machine is ready to be used as NetOcean.