Chapter 2 Installing Cisco Access Registrar 4.2

Installing Cisco Access Registrar 4.2 Software on Linux

Step 3 Enter the name of the script file to begin the installation:

./CSCOar-4.2.1-lnx26-install-k9.sh

Name

:

CSCOar

Relocations: /opt/CSCOar

Version

:

4.2.1

Vendor: Cisco Systems, Inc.

Release

:

1140764415

Build Date: Mon Nov 03 23:55:51 2008

Install date: (not installed)

Build Host: spencer.cnslab.cisco.com

Summary

: Access Registrar, a carrier-class RADIUS server

build_tag: [Linux-2.6.20, official]

 

Copyright (C)

1998-2008 by Cisco Systems, Inc.

This program contains proprietary and confidential information.

All rights reserved except as may be permitted by prior written consent.

This package contains the Access Registrar Server and the Access

Registrar Configuration Utility. All the Client, Server, and

Configuration utilities will be installed.

Where do you want to install <CSCOar>? [/opt/CSCOar] [?,q]

Step 4 Press Enter to accept the default location of /opt/CSCOar, or enter a different directory to be used as the base installation directory.

Access Registrar requires FLEXlm license file to operate. A list

of space delimited license files or directories can be supplied as input; license files must have the extension ".lic".

Where are the FLEXlm license files located? [] [?,q]

Step 5 Enter the directory where you have stored the Cisco AR license file.

Access Registrar provides a Web GUI. It requires J2RE version 1.4.* to be installed on the server.

If you already have a compatible version of J2RE installed, please enter the directory where it is installed. If you do not, the compatible J2RE version can be downloaded from:

http://java.sun.com/

Where is the J2RE installed? [] [?,q]

The J2RE is required to use the CAR 4.2 GUI. If you already have a Java 2 platform installed, enter the directory where it is installed.

Note If you do not provide the J2RE path, or if the path is empty or unsupported, the installation process exits.

If you are not using ORACLE, press Enter/Return to skip this step.

ORACLE installation directory is required for ODBC configuration.

ORACLE_HOME variable will be set in /etc/init.d/arserver script

Where is ORACLE installed? [] [?,q]

Step 6 Enter the location where you have installed Oracle, otherwise press Enter.

If you want to learn about Access Registrar by following the examples in the Installation and Configuration Guide, you need to populate the database with the example configuration.

Do you want to install the example configuration now? [n]: [y,n,?,q] y

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