Blixt™ Server Installation Guide

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Contents
1 Introduction....................................................................................................................................................... 3
2 Prerequisites .................................................................................................................................................... 3
2.1 Server Hardware Requirements ................................................................................................................ 3
2.2 Operating System Requirements .............................................................................................................. 3
2.3 Required Firewall Settings ........................................................................................................................ 3
2.4 Infovista License Requirements ................................................................................................................ 3
3 Installing and Configuring Blixt™ Server .......................................................................................................... 4
3.1 Installation ................................................................................................................................................. 4
3.2 Client Password Setup .............................................................................................................................. 4
3.3 Infovista License Setup ............................................................................................................................. 4
4 Starting Blixt™ Server ...................................................................................................................................... 4

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1 Introduction
Infovista offers Blixt™ Server software, enabling Blixt™ (available bandwidth measurements) to be run against
any Linux server with this software installed.

This document describes how to install and configure Blixt™ Server.

2 Prerequisites

2.1 Server Hardware Requirements

• 1 Gbit/s wired internet connection.

• Having firewalls between the internet and the server is not recommended as the firewall may limit maximum
throughput and cause inaccurate measurement results.
• Physical server environment, i.e. non-virtualized server.
• More than 4 GB RAM.
• Intel Core i7 processor or equivalent.

2.2 Operating System Requirements

• The server machine must have one of the following operating systems installed:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 or later

• Fedora Server 21

• Root or sudo access is required.

2.3 Required Firewall Settings

• UDP port 15001 must be open for inbound traffic. Open the port by running the following commands in a
terminal shell:
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-port=15001/udp
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-port=15001/tcp
sudo firewall-cmd --reload

2.4 Infovista License Requirements

Your organization must have an account in Infovista’s GLS licensing system with a license for Blixt™ Server
available. This license option (“add-on”) belongs to the TEMS Investigation product line in GLS.

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3 Installing and Configuring Blixt™ Server

3.1 Installation

• Install Blixt™ Server by running this command:

rpm -i twampserver-1.1.0.10-1.x86_64.rpm

3.2 Client Password Setup

• To set up a password for client authorization, open the file /etc/twampserver.conf in a text editor and enter a
password on the following line:
BLIXT_SERVER_PASSWORD='<Enter secret key here>'

Note: Be sure to keep the single quotes around the password.

3.3 Infovista License Setup

• Register the server with Infovista’s GLS licensing system by running the following command, where the
account id, e-mail address and password are those associated with your organization’s GLS account:
sudo /bin/tems-license -r "Blixt Server,<account id>,<e-mail address>,<password>"

• Then activate the licensed features, using the activation code provided by Infovista:
sudo /bin/tems-license -a <activation code>

4 Starting Blixt™ Server

On completing the above steps, you can start Blixt™ Server as follows:
sudo service twampserver start

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