Prerequisites
This guide assumes you have a running RHEL server with access to the Red Hat repositories (repos). VisibleThread Docs .rpm has some dependencies (including httpd, openssl, java) that are available in the Red Hat repos. These dependencies will be installed by our .rpm file; as such we require that the Red Hat Software Collections (RHSCL) repository be enabled.
Note: VT Docs will create a user called 'visiblethread' upon installation; do not create a 'visiblethread' user before installing!
Minimum Server Spec
4GB RAM
2 CPU Cores
80GB disk
Note: VisibleThread Docs requires port 443 and port 22.
VisibleThread Docs requires 'sudo su' permission to install correctly.
Note: Deployments have been tested on RHEL versions 7.2 - 7.9
Deployments have been tested on VMware ESX Vsphere/vcenter, Hyper-V, Azure, AWS
Step 1: Enable the RHSCL Repository
Repositories
The Red Hat repos are typically made available via two methods:
⦁ an active Red Hat subscription – typically used when RHEL runs on-prem, OR
⦁ Red Hat Update Infrastructure (RHUI) – available with cloud providers (e.g. Azure and AWS) to mirror Red Hat-hosted repos and automatically make them available to official RHEL cloud VMs.
The RHSCL repository is named differently depending on how you access repos. Below are the common commands to enable the RHSCL repo in different environments run:
Red Hat Subscription (typically on-prem) |
sudo subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-server-rhscl-7-rpms |
AWS |
(may need to run the following command to update the Amazon Red Hat Update Infrastructure Client: |
Azure |
sudo yum-config-manager --enable rhui-rhel-server-rhui-rhscl-7-rpms |
To verify that the above command worked:
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run sudo yum repolist
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look for an entry like “Red Hat … RHSCL” or “Red Hat Software Collections…”
Step 2: PostgreSQL Install
PostgreSQL Database is mandatory. Although the rpm doesn’t depend on it, PostgreSQL is required. We support PostgreSQL versions 10 - 13 and recommend using a version minimum of 12. Here is an example install of PostgreSQL 12 using the above RHSCL repo:
Install PostgreSQL 12sudo yum install -y rh-postgresql12 rh-postgresql12-syspaths
Enter Postgresql bash shell and initialize the DB: sudo su - postgres
/usr/bin/postgresql-setup initdb
Exit the Postgresql bash shell: exit
Enable and start Postgresql service: sudo systemctl enable --now postgresql
Verify service is active: systemctl status postgresql
Step 3: VT Docs Download/Install
Now that you verified that PostgreSQL is running you can download and install the VT Docs rpm file.
The VT Docs .rpm is available to download here:
https://visiblethread.s3.amazonaws.com/public/download/visiblethread-docs-5.0.5-1.x86_64.rpm
To verify that the download was completed successfully you can check the md5 hash :
(MD5 Hash: d2eb82d4aba16213f1ed7fb57d2720c8)
To install the RPM just run the following command;
sudo yum install -y visiblethread-docs-5.0.5-1.x86_64.rpm
Step 4: Check if fapolicyd is installed
If fapolicy is installed it will block Apache Tomcat from being installed correctly, because of this you should whitelist the required directory in your fapolicy, see below.
- Check if fapolicyd is installed
sudo systemctl status fapolicy
- If fapolicyd is NOT installed please ignore this section. If faploicy is installed please run the below command to whitelist the install directory for Apache Tomcat.
# as root user
echo "allow perm=any uid=visiblethread : dir=/opt/visiblethread/tomcat/" >> /etc/fapolicyd/rules.d/01-visiblethread.rules
fapolicyd-cli --update
systemctl restart fapolicyd
sudo systemctl restart visiblethread-docs.service
To upload your license and setup users please follow the link and start from Section 2:
https://support.visiblethread.com/hc/en-us/articles/214225446-Deploying-VisibleThread-On-Premise-behind-your-corporate-firewall