Install

System Requirements and Installation

The Vampy is delivered as an executable web application in .RUN format.

Connection to web application is carried out via any latest browser.

Vampy hardware requirements

The following are the estimated system requirements:

Description	Minimal Requirements	Recommended Requirements
RAM	4 GB	16 GB
CPU	2 cores	4 cores
Disk speed	100 IOps	300 IOps
Disk size	100 GB	300 GB

Preparing for installation

Before installation, prepare a virtual machine or server with one of the supported operating systems:

CentOS 8
RHEL 8
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 22.04

Some Linux distributions in minimal installation may not include the following utilities: curl, find, groupadd, tar, gzip, useradd, xargs. However, these utilities are used in the Platform, and we recommend you to install them.

Install docker engine including docker compose plugin on the machine.

Note 1: docker from snap currently is not supported.

Note 2: docker-compose standalone is supported, but not recommended.

Vampy installation

After you filled the form, you receive an email with link to installation file. Download it to your server:
```
wget https://hexway.io/<link_path>/install_hw_vmp_en-US_<version>.run
```

To start installation, run the command:

bash ./install_hw_vmp_en-US_<version>.run

After installation, you will get the following message:
```
hexway Vampy is ready to use.
UI accessible on http://<ip-server> or https://<ip-server>
Login as '<username>' password: '<password>'
```
Note: when installing the platform without additional parameters, the root user password will be generated automatically. Known issue: If the root user password is not showing up, run the following command:
```
grep v.root.password /opt/hw-vmp/config/local.ini
```
Please notice that changing local.ini will not change the password! You can change the password only in web-interface.
Open the Platform in the browser by the address specified in the message: http://<ip-server>/ or http://<your-domain-name>/. Default admin login is root@ro.ot .

Installation of updates

To update Platform:

Upload the file to your server:

wget https://hexway.io/<link_path>/install_hw_vmp_en-US_<version>.run

Run the command:

bash ./install_hw_vmp_en-US_<version>.run

During the update process, Platform will be saved to a backup and then the latest updates will be installed.

Notes:

Platform backups are saved to the /opt/hw-vmp_backup folder;

The Platform stores only the three latest backups.

When installation completes, Platform will start automatically.

Default passwords

The default passwords of the root user is generated automatically during the installation and saved to the file /opt/hw-fh/config/local.ini.

You can check your default password after installation using the command:

grep v.root.password /opt/hw-vmp/config/local.ini

Please notice that changing local.ini will not change the password! You can change the password only in web-interface.

Advanced installation settings

You can set some parameters before you install the app.

First, let's create a directory for the configuration file: /opt/hw-vmp/config/ and the file itself user.ini

On the link below you can see a list of possible parameters and their values.

user-template.ini

If you want to set custom root password, you need to do it before the installation! Just add to user.ini the setting v.root.password = %your_password%.
Otherwise the password for root will be generated automatically. You can check your default password after installation using the command:

grep v.root.password /opt/hw-vmp/config/local.ini

Please notice that changing local.ini will not change the password! You can change the password only in web-interface.