Thank you for selecting RackTables as your datacenter management solution! If you are looking for documentation or wish to send feedback, please look for the respective links at project's web-site (racktables.org). ******************************************************* * * * INSTALLING RACKTABLES * * * ******************************************************* *** I. SERVER *** RackTables requires a MySQL server version 5.x built with InnoDB and Unicode support and configured appropriately. It also requires an Apache httpd with PHP 5 module and several PHP extensions. Below is a list of know-good distributions with respective setup notes. *** Fedora 14 * MySQL: yum install mysql-server mysql * Apache/PHP: yum install httpd php php-mysql php-pdo php-gd php-snmp php-mbstring * To enable Unicode, add "character-set-server=utf8" line to "[mysqld]" section of "/etc/my.cnf" file and restart mysqld. *** ALTLinux 4.0 * MySQL: apt-get install MySQL-server * Apache/PHP: apt-get install apache2-httpd-prefork php5-gd2 \ php5-pdo_mysql php5-pdo apache2-mod_php5 php5-mbstring * To enable Unicode, add "CHSET=utf8" line to "/etc/sysconfig/mysqld" file and restart mysqld. *** openSUSE 11.0 * MySQL: YaST -> Software -> software management -> Web and LAMP server -> mysql * Apache/PHP: use YaST to install apache2-mod_php5, php5-gd, php5-mbstring, php5-mysql, php5-snmp and php5-ldap * To enable Unicode, add "default-character-set=utf8" line to "[mysql]" section of "/etc/my.cnf" file and restart mysqld. *** FreeBSD 8 * Apache/PHP: # make -C /usr/ports/www/apache13-modssl install # make -C /usr/ports/www/php5-session install [X] CLI Build CLI version [X] APACHE Build Apache module [X] MULTIBYTE Enable zend multibyte support # make -C /usr/ports/graphics/php5-gd install # make -C /usr/ports/databases/php5-pdo_mysql install # make -C /usr/ports/devel/pcre install !!! Enable UTF-8 support ............ : yes !!! Unicode properties .............. : yes # make -C /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre install # make -C /usr/ports/converters/php5-mbstring install [X] REGEX Enable multibyte regex support # make -C /usr/ports/net-mgmt/php5-snmp install # make -C /usr/ports/net/php5-ldap install *** II. FILES *** Place the contents of "wwwroot" directory into desired directory on the web-server. Update Apache httpd configuration as necessary. *** III. INSTALLER *** Open your configured RackTables URL and you will be prompted to configure and initialize the application. ******************************************************* * * * UPGRADING RACKTABLES * * * ******************************************************* RackTables (since 0.14.6) provides an automatic database upgrade feature. If you already have a working installation, the following procedure should be sufficient: 0. BACKUP YOUR DATABASE and check the release notes (below) before actually starting the upgrade,. 1. Remove all existing files except inc/secret.php, gateways' configuration (in the gateways directory) and local mod (inc/local.php). 2. Unpack the new tarball into the place. 3. Open your RackTables page in a browser. The software detects version mismatch and displays a message telling to log in as admin to finish the upgrade. 4. Do that. Normally, everything should be Ok. If there are errors displayed, send these in a bug report. ******************************************************* * * * RELEASE NOTES * * * ******************************************************* *** Upgrading to 0.19.2 *** This release is different in filesystem layout. The "gateways" directory has been moved from "wwwroot" directory. This improves security, but may lead to gateways extension not working by default. If you need any of the gateway-dependent features (802.1Q, live ports, sendfile) working, the recommended way is to put "racktables_gwdir" variable to secret.php file with the full filesystem path to "gateways" directory on the server, e.g.: $racktables_gwdir = '/usr/local/racktables/gateways'; *** Upgrading to 0.19.0 *** The files, which are intended for the httpd (web-server) directory, are now in the "wwwroot" directory of the tar.gz archive. Files outside of that directory are not directly intended for httpd environment and should not be copied to the server. This release incorporates ObjectLog functionality, which used to be available as a separate plugin. For the best results it is advised to disable (through local.php) external ObjectLog plugin permanently before the new version is installed. All previously accumulated ObjectLog records will be available through the updated standard interface. RackTables is now using PHP JSON extension which is included in the PHP core since 5.2.0. The barcode attribute was removed. The upgrade script attempts to preserve the data by moving it to either the 'OEM S/N 1' attribute or to a Log entry. You should backup your database beforehand anyway. *** Upgrading to 0.18.x *** RackTables from its version 0.18.0 and later is not compatible with RHEL/CentOS (at least with versions up to 5.5) Linux distributions in their default installation. There are yet options to work around that: 1. Install RackTables on a server with a different distribution/OS. 2. Request Linux distribution vendor to fix the bug with PCRE. 3. Repair your RHEL/CentOS installation yourself by fixing its PCRE RPM as explained here: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3252 *** Upgrading to 0.17.0 *** One can always install RackTables 0.17.0 from scratch. However, upgrading an existing installation to 0.17.0 implies a certain upgrade path. If the existing database version is less, than 0.16.4, it must first be upgraded to version 0.16.4, 0.16.5 or 0.16.6 (at one's choice) using appropriate tar.gz distribution. The resulting 0.16.4+ database can be upgraded to 0.17.0 (or later version) in a normal way (with tar.gz of the desired 0.17.x release). LDAP options have been moved to LDAP_options array. This means, that if you were using LDAP authentication for users in version 0.16.x, it will break right after upgrade to 0.17.0. To get things working again, adjust existing secret.php file according to secret-sample.php file provided with 0.17.0 release. This release is the first to take advantage of the foreign key support provided by the InnoDB storage engine in MySQL. The installer and upgrader scripts check for InnoDB support and cannot complete without it. If you have trouble, the first step is to make sure the 'skip-innodb' option in my.cnf is commented out. Another change is the addition of support for file uploads. Files are stored in the database. There are several settings in php.ini which you may need to modify: file_uploads - needs to be On upload_max_filesize - max size for uploaded files post_max_size - max size of all form data submitted via POST (including files) User accounts used to have 'enabled' flag, which allowed individual blocking and unblocking of each. This flag was dropped in favor of existing mean of access setup (RackCode). An unconditional denying rule is automatically added into RackCode for such blocked account, so the effective security policy remains the same.