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Anyware Manager System Requirements

Before installing Anyware Manager you need to prepare your system as per the recommended configuration, configure system firewall and proxy settings on the Anyware Manager virtual machine.

System Requirements

Your virtual machine must have the following configuration:

  • Operating System: RHEL 8 and Rocky Linux 8.
  • 8 GB RAM (Minimum)
  • 4 CPU
  • 60 GB Storage: If you are using LVM and /var is mounted on a separate volume, that volume must have 30GB or more in order for the installation to succeed and for Anyware Manager to function properly.
  • Active Directory permissions set to List contents and Read all properties. If you do not set these permissions you are not able to connect to a specific remote workstations.
  • The VM's hostname should be as per standards defined in RFC1123 and it must:
    • Contain only 253 characters.
    • Contain only lowercase alphanumeric characters, '-' or '.'.
    • Start with an alphanumeric character.
    • End with an alphanumeric character.

Firewall Configuration

The firewall on the Anyware Manager Virtual machine must be configured as follows:

Enable Port 443

Ensure port 443 is enabled in the firewall rules for the Anyware Manager Virtual Machine.

  1. Login to the Anyware Manager Virtual Machine by ssh from a bash shell as root.
  2. Confirm if firewall is active by running this command: sudo systemctl status firewalld.

  3. If firewalld is active, Run the following commands to configure the firewall:

    sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=6443/tcp # virtual network flannel
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=trusted --add-source=10.42.0.0/16 # This subnet is for the pods
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=trusted --add-source=10.43.0.0/16 # This subnet is for the services
sudo firewall-cmd --reload

If firewalld is inactive, and your organization does not require firewall on the Anyware Manager Virtual Machine, then skip the firewall configuration.

Proxy Configuration

If you are using HTTP/HTTPS proxy, you must configure it. For NO_PROXY, provide the specific IP addresses or domain names for internal services. The IP address range such as "10.0.0.0/8" does not work; you should add the exact IP address or domain name for the traffic routing through proxy. Configure the following variables in the /etc/environment file:

  1. Run this command to edit the /etc/environment/ file in vim. You could also use vim or nano: sudo vi /etc/environment.

  2. Update the file to include the following environment variables:

    HTTPS_PROXY="http://hostname_of_proxy:port"
HTTP_PROXY="http://hostname_of_proxy:port"
NO_PROXY=[list of all host names that should not go through the proxy, such as: localhost, 127.0.0.1, 0.0.0.0, ip_address_of_mongo]
ALL_PROXY="http://hostname_of_proxy:port"
https_proxy="http://hostname_of_proxy:port"
http_proxy="http://hostname_of_proxy:port"
no_proxy=”=[list of all host names that should not go through the proxy, such as: localhost, 127.0.0.1, 0.0.0.0, ip_address_of_mongo]
all_proxy="http://hostname_of_proxy:port"

  3. Save the file. When you install Anyware Manager, you can configure the file to use the proxy configuration. From this new terminal, proceed with the installation steps. The proxy configuration is implemented when Anyware Manager is installed.

Anyware Software Registration Code

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