Installation Guide

Abstract
Introduction
Preface
Hardware Requirements
Software Installation and Deployment

Abstract 

This document describes how to install smo-ves, it’s dependencies and required system resources.

Version history

Date	Ver.	Author	Comment
2022-Aug-10	0.1.0	Santanu De	First draft

Introduction 

This document describes the supported software and hardware configurations for the reference component as well as providing guidelines on how to install and configure such reference system.

The audience of this document is assumed to have good knowledge in RAN network, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Desktop Edition system and Docker Compose.

Preface 

Before starting the installation of smo-ves, make sure docker-compose, git are installed on the system

Hardware Requirements 

Following minimum hardware requirements must be met for installation of smo-ves:

HW Aspect	Requirement
# of servers	1
CPU	4 core
RAM	8 GB minimum, 16 GB recommended
Disk	100 GB minimum, 500 GB recommended
NICs	1

Software Installation and Deployment 

This section describes the installation of the smo-ves installation on the reference hardware.

Build 

To build the solution, you need to do the following in the current folder:

% docker-compose build

Run 

To run the solution, you need to invoke the following command:

% docker-compose up -d

To stop the solution the following command should be invoked:

% docker-compose down

Following steps are required to install a certificate.

Following steps are required for self-signed certificate. 1. Create ves-certificate directory on the host system using command “mkdir ~/ves-certificate”. 2. Go to ves-certificate directory and use below commands to create self-signed certificate files:

openssl genrsa -out vescertificate.key 2048
openssl req -new -key vescertificate.key -out vescertificate.csr
openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in vescertificate.csr -signkey vescertificate.key -out vescertificate.crt

Third Party Certificates 

Third party certificates can be installed by overwriting the file vescertificate.csr, vescertificate.key, and vescertficate.crt in ~/ves-certificate directory of the host system.

Following steps are required to add an entry in the host file 

Add following entry in host file on the computer from which user want to access Grafana dashboard. <IP Address of VM/Machine on which docker containers are running> smo-influxdb

For Example- Docker container running on the guest VM or different/remote machine having IP Address 192.168.56.110 then host file entry is as follows:

192.168.56.110 smo-influxdb