Introduction

This document will describe the Initial setup of Site Controller on an Ubuntu LTS linux distribution. 

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1. Install prerequisites for compiling packages

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   root@ubuntu:~# apt-get install build-essential libc-ares-dev xsltproc docbook-xsl gcc python-dev libssl-dev

2. Install mosquitto, create a mosquitto group and user

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   root@ubuntu:~/download# tar xzf mosquitto-1.3.4.tar.gz root@ubuntu:~/download# cd mosquitto-1.3.4/ root@ubuntu:~/download/mosquitto-1.3.4# groupadd mosquitto root@ubuntu:~/download/mosquitto-1.3.4# useradd -g mosquitto mosquitto root@ubuntu:~/download/mosquitto-1.3.4# make && make install

3. Create a mosquitto configuration

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   root@ubuntu:~/download# mv /etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf.example /etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf

4. Set a log_dest. To do so please edit /etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf and change as noted below line 419 (or similar). All logging output will go into /opt/azeti/SiteController/log/mosquitto.log

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   ... #log_dest stderr # sebastian.koch - manually added log destination log_dest file /opt/azeti/SiteController/log/mosquitto.log ...

5. Install python-psutil 

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   root@ubuntu:~/download# tar xzf psutil-2.2.1.tar.gz root@ubuntu:~/download# cd psutil-2.2.1  root@ubuntu:~/download/psutil-2.2.1# python setup.py install

6. Install SiteController (output was truncated)

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   root@ubuntu:~/download# tar xzf SiteController-install-1.1-Jever.tar.gz root@ubuntu:~/download# cd SiteController-install/ root@ubuntu:~/download/SiteController-install# ./setup.sh OS type is generic Ubuntu Creating new site controller startup configuration ... Checking for previous installation of SiteController ... No previous installation found. Creating folder ... Installing python libraries ... Checking for presence of setuptools ... Not present Installing setuptools ... ... Updating autostart script ... Sorry, no autostart script available for your system. Adapting configuration to your system ... Please provide a unique serial name for your SiteController! Allowed characters are upper and lower case ASCII [a-zA-Z], digits [0-9], dashes - and underlines _. Your entry: > Ubuntu-Test-sebastian Serial name set to Ubuntu-Test-sebastian Thank you. Changing serial id of SiteController from "" to "Ubuntu-Test-sebastian".

7. TODO: MOSQUITTO_FOLDER must be /usr/local

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