Blixt™ Server Installation Guide

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 Contents

1 Introduction 1

2 Prerequisites 1
2.1 Server Hardware Requirements 1
2.2 Operating System Requirements 1
2.3 Required Firewall Settings 1
2.4 Ascom License Requirements 1

3 Installing and Configuring Blixt™ Server 2

3.1 Installation 2
3.2 Client Password Setup 2
3.3 Ascom License Setup 2

4 Starting Blixt™ Server 2

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 1 Introduction
Ascom 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:
o Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 or later
o 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 Ascom License Requirements

Your organization must have an account in Ascom’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 Ascom License Setup

 Register the server with Ascom’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 Ascom:
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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