Pre-Installation Tasks

Before you install CMPClosed Converged Monetisation Platform. The MDS Global product that supports customer care and billing for digital service providers.:

  • Ensure that the prerequisites are in place (see Prerequisites).

  • Ensure that you are familiar with CMP Ansible automatic deployment concepts.

    See About CMP Installation.

  • In the case of a CMP version upgrade, ensure that any associated third partyClosed Of software; a reusable component developed to be either freely distributed or sold by an entity other than the original vendor of the development platform. upgrade steps, for example for the PostgreSQL database, are completed as described in the release notes of the software version in question.

  • Make a copy of the current Virtual Machine(s) (or snapshot) prior to installation/upgrade. This allows for the environment to be restored in the event that a rollback is required.

  • Ensure that these CMP System users and their uid / gid are free on the relevant systems, that is, none of these are already taken by other users.

    User Name

    UID

    GID
    wso2is 200 200
    sabre 201 201
    rolext 202

    202
    restws 203 203
    logcollector 204 204
    bulkaction 205 205
    healthcheck 206 206
    sharedservices 207 207
    contextsensitivehelp 208 208
    sparc 209 209
    artemis 210 210
    jboss 211 211
    tomcat 212 212
    prometheus 213 213
    grafana 214 214
    mimir 215 215
    aurora 216 216

  • Download the CMP Ansible installation files from the CMP installation repository in the cloud to the control server:

    The files are in a zip package that stores the Ansible deployment playbooks, inventories and other files:

    1. Download the Ansible Playbook package using the curl command for the release version being installed using the credentials supplied by MDS Global:

      2. curl -su <username> -L -X GET "https://vault.mdsglobal.dev/service/rest/v1/search/assets/download?sort=version&repository=maven-ga-cmp-<cmp version>&maven.groupId=com.mdsglobal.cmp.ansible&maven.artifactId=cmp-ansible-playbook-pkg&maven.extension=zip" -o cmp-ansible-playbook-pkg.zip

      where:

      <username> is the username in credentials supplied by MDS Global

      <cmp version> is the CMP version to be installed, for example, 8.10 or 8.12.

    2. Unzip the downloaded package. For example:

      unzip cmp-ansible-playbook-pkg.zip

Important: The latest Ansible Playbook for the release being installed must always be downloaded prior to running the installation process. It is critical that the playbook version corresponds to the version of CMP being installed.

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