Toolpack Prerequisites for CentOS 7

Applies to version(s) v2.8 to v2.9

WARNING: The host MUST have been installed with the CentOS 7 DVD/ISO pointed in this procedure.

WARNING: The host MUST have been installed using the "Minimal" package set within the CentOS installation wizard.

Install the base CentOS 7 server

Download the following DVD image:

http://download.distribution.telcobridges.com/3rdparty/prerequisite/bin/centos/CentOS-7.0-1406-x86_64-DVD.iso

Press Enter to choose the graphical installation:

• Enable the ethernet interface and set the hostname (make sure it is not localhost.localdomain)
• Select the "Minimal" install package

Configure network connection

If the IP interface was not configured and enabled during installation, it can be configure with the following command from a console connection or a monitor/keyboard connected to the server.

To list the ethernet card installed on your machine:

nmcli d

If your device shows the STATE as "disconnect", start the Network manager by typing:

nmtui

• Select "Edit a connection" and press Enter
• Select your network interface, select "Edit" (use arrows to change options), press Enter
• Set IPv4 static address or choose “Automatic” (for DHCP) in IPv4 CONFIGURATION and check "Automatically connect" check box.
• Select "Quit", press Enter

service network restart

Check your ip interface using:

ip addr

Add base packages

To continue installation, you need to download a few packages not provided by the minimal installation:

 yum install net-tools wget

Configure TelcoBridges repository

Online repository procedure

This procedure requires internet access and a DNS configured on your unit

Add TelcoBridges repository file

vi /etc/yum.repos.d/TB-Base.repo

Paste the following information in that file:

# TelcoBridges-Base.repo
#
# This repository is using TelcoBridges frozen version of CentOS
# to help client installing the required version of the
# applications required to run Toolpack
#

[tb-base]
name=TelcoBridges-$releasever - Base
baseurl=http://repo.telcobridges.com/centos/7/os/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-TB7

Get TelcoBridges repository key

cd /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/
wget http://repo.telcobridges.com/centos/7/os/x86_64/RPM-GPG-KEY-TB7

Offline repository procedure

This procedure does not requires internet access.

Install TelcoBridges repository locally

Download the .iso image of the repository

http://repo.telcobridges.com/centos/7/isos/x86_64/tb_centos7_x86_64_repo.iso

• Upload this .iso file to the "/root" directory of the server with scp or a SFTP tool like FileZilla
• Mount the .iso file on your server

mkdir -p /repo/centos/7
mount -t iso9660 -o loop /root/tb_centos7_x86_64_repo.iso /repo/centos/7

Add the mount point permanently to the system to make it stay after a reboot.

# cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bak
# echo "/root/tb_centos7_x86_64_repo.iso /repo/centos/7 iso9660 loop 0 0" >> /etc/fstab

Add TelcoBridges repository file

vim /etc/yum.repos.d/TB-Base.repo

Paste the following information in that file:

# TelcoBridges-Base.repo
#
# This repository is using TelcoBridges frozen version of CentOS
# to help client installing the required version of the
# applications required to run Toolpack
#

[tb-base]
name=TelcoBridges-$releasever - Base
baseurl=file:///repo/centos/7/os/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-TB7

Get TelcoBridges repository key

cd /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/
cp /repo/centos/7/RPM-GPG-KEY-TB7 .

Update CentOS

Disable base CentOS repositories

Edit the Centos repository configuration file

vi /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo

Disable all repositories in that file. Example:

[base]
enabled=0
name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7

#released updates
[updates]
enabled=0
name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7

#additional packages that may be useful
[extras]
enabled=0
name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=extras
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/extras/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7

#additional packages that extend functionality of existing packages
[centosplus]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Plus
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=centosplus
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/centosplus/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7

Package update

Remove conflicting packages with TelcoBridges repository part of the original DVD

yum remove NetworkManager xfsprogs

Update your system to latest packages from TelcoBridges repository

yum clean all
yum update

If there was a kernel update, you need to reboot the machine to activate it:

shutdown -r now

Reply to ARP only on local interfaces

Modify the file /etc/sysctl.conf to add the following lines:

 net.ipv4.conf.default.arp_ignore=1
 net.ipv4.conf.all.arp_ignore=1

Then restart network interfaces using the following command:

 service network restart

Disabling SELinux

Check SELinux status

 sestatus

If SELinux is enable, see the Disabling SELinux article to disable it.

Disabling Firewalld

systemctl mask firewalld
systemctl stop firewalld

Install Toolpack Prerequisites

Then, install Toolpack set of pre-requisite packages. When asked to 'Importing GPG key', answer yes.

yum groupinstall Toolpack-Prerequisites

Configure ODBC

Be sure that Toolpack system is stopped before manipulating MySQL.

tbtoolpack stop

vi /etc/odbcinst.ini

Remove the '#' in front of each lines of the [MySQL] section Modify the 'Driver' line to set the correct driver

Example:

[MySQL]
Description     = ODBC for MySQL
Driver          = /usr/lib/libmyodbc5.so
Setup           = /usr/lib/libodbcmyS.so
Driver64        = /usr/lib64/libmyodbc5.so
Setup64         = /usr/lib64/libodbcmyS.so
FileUsage       = 1

Configure MariaDB

vi /etc/my.cnf

Add these variables in the file under the [mysqld] section:

• log-bin=mariadb-bin
• relay-log=mariadb-relay-bin
• innodb_doublewrite=1
• innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=1
• sync_binlog=1
• expire_logs_days=30
• max_binlog_size=500M
• server-id=[UniqueId]
• innodb_stats_on_metadata=0

The server-id needs to be a non-zero unique value (do not use 0). If you use the host redundancy feature, the value MUST to be different on each host .

Add below to remove database dependencies with DNS servers (**Applicable to TMG users only)

 skip-name-resolve

Add max_allowed_packet to increase the maximum size of binary blobs in the database. Make sure it is in the [mysqld] section AND [mysqldump] section

 max_allowed_packet = 200MB

Example:

[mysqld]
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
symbolic-links=0
log-bin=mariadb-bin
server-id=1123476
max_allowed_packet = 200MB
skip-name-resolve
expire_logs_days=30
max_binlog_size=500M
relay-log=mariadb-relay-bin
innodb_doublewrite=1
innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=1
sync_binlog=1
innodb_stats_on_metadata=0

[mysqldump] 
max_allowed_packet = 200MB

Enable and start MariaDB

systemctl enable mariadb
systemctl start mariadb

Use the MariaDB wizard to secure your server installation.

mysql_secure_installation

You should:

• Set new root password
• Remove anonymous users
• Disallow root login remotely
• Remove test database and accesses
• Reload privilege tables

Example:

mysql_secure_installation

Set root password? [Y/n] Y
New password: AVeryStrongPassword
Re-enter new password: AVeryStrongPassword
Password updated successfully!
Reloading privilege tables..
 ... Success!
Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] Y
 ... Success!
Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] Y
 ... Success!
Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] Y
 - Dropping test database...
 ... Success!
 - Removing privileges on test database...
 ... Success!
Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] Y
 ... Success!
Cleaning up...
Thanks for using MariaDB!

Restart the MariaDB service

systemctl restart mariadb

Configure MariaDB user

• Create a tbdb user (required by Toolpack)

Example:

mysql -uroot -pAVeryStrongPassword

USE mysql;
CREATE USER 'tbdb'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'tbdbpw';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'tbdb'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'tbdbpw';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit

Install additional ruby gems

wget http://download.distribution.telcobridges.com/3rdparty/prerequisite/bin/linux/bundler-1.2.3.gem
gem install --local ./bundler-1.2.3.gem

wget http://download.distribution.telcobridges.com/3rdparty/prerequisite/bin/linux/json-1.7.7.gem
gem install --local ./json-1.7.7.gem

Toolpack Development Prerequisite (Optional)

The Toolpack System Development prerequisite section is only required for customers that will develop their own application using the Toolpack API:

yum install libxml2-devel libpcap-devel unixODBC-devel libaio libaio-devel libcurl-devel.x86_64 ruby-devel.x86_64 libxslt

Be sure to add this environment variable by editing ~/.bashrc

vi ~/.bashrc
Add the following line:
   ---------
   export DISTRO=centos7
   ---------
source ~/.bashrc

Validation Guide (highly recommended)

If you would like to verify your installation go to the Toolpack Validation Guide

Toolpack System installation

Now that the prerequisite are installed, now it is time to install the Toolpack system