Overview
This guide describes how to install CDRouter on a system. These instructions can be used to upgrade, downgrade, or install a specific release of CDRouter on a new or existing system.
Three installation methods are discussed in this guide:
- Automatic installation using the web interface
- Manual installation using the web interface
- Manual installation using the command line
This guide does not cover the CDRouter Demo. Installation instructions for the CDRouter Demo can be found in this guide.
Note that an active and valid license file is also needed in order to use CDRouter. Please see this guide for information on installing or updating a CDRouter license file.
Please feel free to contact support@qacafe.com for assistance with any of the instructions provided in this guide.
Automatically install CDRouter using the web interface
On CDRouter systems with an active internet connection, a notification banner will be displayed within the main header of the CDRouter web interface whenever a new release is available.
Clicking on the link in the notification banner will open the System > Upgrade page. Enter your email address and click the Check for Updates… button. If a newer release of CDRouter is available, follow the instructions provided on the page to automatically download and install it. This is the easiest and fastest way to upgrade a CDRouter system to the latest release.
Manually install CDRouter using the web interface
On CDRouter systems without an active internet connection (or to upgrade or downgrade to a specific version of CDRouter) specific releases of CDRouter can also be installed manually using the drag and drop feature within the web interface.
To utilize this feature, download the appropriate CDRouter binary from the
Software Downloads section of the Customer
Lounge. Note that CDRouter binaries are named using
the convention cdrouter_X.Y.Z-1_x86_64.bin (where X.Y.Z indicates the
release number).
From the System > Upgrade page the downloaded CDRouter binary can be installed using the drag and drop feature within the Manual Upgrade section.
Manually install CDRouter using the command line
Specific releases of CDRouter can also be installed manually from the command line as a user with root-level permissions.
To perform a manual installation via the command line, download a CDRouter
binary from the Software Downloads section of the Customer
Lounge. Note that CDRouter binaries are named using
the convention cdrouter_X.Y.Z-1_x86_64.bin (where X.Y.Z indicates the
release number).
After copying the downloaded binary to the CDRouter system, make it executable using this command:
$ chmod 755 cdrouter_11.2.1-1_x86_64.bin
Next, run the binary to install CDRouter:
$ ./cdrouter_11.2.1-1_x86_64.bin
