Cisco WAE Design 6.4.15 GUI Installation Guide
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- Updated:
- March 4, 2019
Chapter: Install
WAE Design GUI Installation
The WAE Design GUI is used by WAE Design users and by administrators who are creating plan templates for use in the WAE Live or WAE Design Archive applications.
This chapter provides instructions for installing the WAE Design GUI. You additionally need to install the WAE Design license and if applicable, install the floating license server.
License Installation —Information on how to install dedicated and floating licenses.
WAE Design Floating License Server —Procedure for installing and setting up the FlexNet Publisher license server. This is needed only if administering floating licenses.
The installation process does not install any drivers or require any changes to the operating system. You can download and install the files to any folder or directory.
Prerequisites
- A license is required for all features except for the example plan files. If you have questions about obtaining a license, contact your support representative or system administrator.
- Meet the necessary system requirements and package dependencies. For a list of these, see the System Requirements document.
Windows and Mac Installation
Step 1
Download the Windows or Mac Cisco WAE Planning software package from the Cisco download site.
Step 2 Extract the files in a location of your choice.
Step 3 Install and verify the license. See License Installation .
Linux Installation
The Linux installation installs all planning software, which includes WAE Design.
Installer
An installer is an executable that runs a script to install the software in the proper locations. Although multiple packages are installed, they are used only if you have a license for them.
The installer performs the following tasks:
– Whether the device has the appropriate system requirements, including proper operating system, disk space, total memory, and required software packages.
If the installer sees that you do not have the appropriate system requirements, it either exits, gives a warning, or prompts you whether to continue. Since the installer might be checking for more than what your specific requirements are, you can press “y” to attempt to continue.
– Whether there are existing package installations; if there are, they are preserved.
- Provided you use the defaults, installs WAE Design software under
/opt/cariden/software/mate. If you did not use the default directory, the path is <installation_directory>software/mate. It also creates the/opt/cariden/software/mate/currentsymbolic link to the most recently installed package. Throughout the documentation, this is referenced as$CARIDEN_HOME. - Upon logging out and back in, the WAE username and associated permissions are set, and the environment variables are set.
– For executables, the WAE user has read, write, and execute permissions. Users listed in /etc/group have read and execute permissions. All others have read-only permissions.
– For non-executables, only the WAE user has read and write permissions. All other users have read-only permissions.
Installation
Step 1 Log in to the server as a user with sudo privileges.
Step 2 Go to the directory where you downloaded the software, extract the.zip file, and execute the installer as root using a bash command. The software package is the installer that automates the installation process.
The process verifies the integrity of the installation using checksums. If a checksum fails, error messages appear and the installation process ends.
Depending on what the installation process finds, it might prompt you throughout the process to continue or not.
Step 3 When prompted, enter the following information.
Step 4 Once the installation process stops, log out of the device or VM.
Step 5 Log back in using the WAE username.
Step 6 Stop the services that are automatically started since they are not used by the WAE Design application.
Step 7 To ensure the above services do not restart upon reboot, use the following chkconfig command for each service that you stopped in the previous step.
<service_name> off
sudo chkconfig wae-ni off
To verify these services will not start on a reboot, use the following command and confirm these services are listed as off:
Step 8 Install and verify the license. See License Installation .
Starting WAE Design
Note New WAE users must log into the WAE System UI to change their password before logging in from WAE Design.
To start WAE Design from the directory in which the WAE Design software is installed, do one of the following:
- On Windows or Linux, double-click the mate executable.
- On a Mac, go to Finder > Applications and double-click the mate application. Alternately, enter open/Applications/mate.app from the Finder > Utilities > Terminal.
- From the CLI, enter mate.
(Optional) On Windows, you can associate the plan file using the.pln format with the mate executable. Double-clicking a.pln file opens the plan in a new instance of the GUI.
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