Installing Hub Central

Hub Central is single pane of glass management platform for BrickStor SP devices and is managed with web-based user-interface (UI). It runs on a standalone Linux server and is capable of managing a fleet of RackTop appliances.

The instructions below can be used to get started with Hub Central.

Prerequisites

To install Hub Central, be sure to have the following:

  • System with Linux installed (can be physical or virtual)

  • Minimal system requirements:

    • Operating System: RedHat Enterprise Linux/Rocky version 8 or newer

    • CPU: 1.4 GHz with 2 cores

    • Memory: 4 GB

    • Disk space: 50 GB

  • DNS entry for the Hub Central server with hostname and IP address.

Install

  1. Log in to the Hub Central Server with an SSH session.

  2. Disable selinux by editing /etc/selinux/config. Change SELINUX=enforcing → SELINUX=disabled. This can be done by running the following command.

    sudo vi /etc/selinux/config

  3. Next, run:

    sudo setenforce 0

  4. Download the appropriate RPM from https://www.myracktop.com/downloads. The RPM file will look something like this: racktop-hub-1.0.0.9-1.el9.x86_64.rpm.

  5. Upload the RPM file to the /tmp directory using scp (Linux) or WinSCP (Windows).

  6. Install RPM package with the following command.

    sudo dnf install -y /tmp/racktop-hub-1.0.0.9-1.el9.x86_64.rpm
    The exact name of the RPM package will change as newer versions are released.

  7. Restart the hubd service with the following command:

sudo systemctl restart hubd

Verify the service is running

sudo systemctl status hubd
     Loaded: loaded
     Active: active (running)