Chapter 3 Upgrading Cisco Access Registrar Software

Upgrading Cisco Access Registrar Linux Software

Step 5 Change the permissions of the CSCOar-4.2.1-lnx26-install-k9.sh file to make it executable.

chmod 777 CSCOar-4.2.1-lnx26-install-k9.sh

To continue the installation, proceed to Common Linux Installation Steps.

Common Linux Installation Steps

This section describes how to install the downloaded CAR 4.2 software for Linux and begin the software installation.

Note The Cisco AR Linux installation automatically installs aregcmd and radclient as setgid programs in group adm.

Step 1 Log in to the Cisco AR workstation as a root user.

Step 2 Change directory to the location where you have stored the CSCOar-4.2.1-lnx26-install-K9.shfile.

cd /tmp

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: Fri Nov 07 23:55:51 2008

Install date: (not installed)

Build Host: donald.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".

Existing license files found. To use the existing license files, just press ENTER to the prompt below.

Note: To enable other features within this package, additional FLEXlm license files can be specified below.

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

 

 

Installing and Configuring Cisco Access Registrar, 4.2

 

 

 

 

 

 

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4.2 specifications

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