Install AWIPS II

These scripts should be run as root:

CAVE Client

Download and run installCAVE.sh

    wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Unidata/awips2/unidata_15.1.1/installCAVE.sh
    chmod 755 ./installCAVE.sh
    ./installCAVE.sh

EDEX Server

Download and run installEDEX.sh:

    wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Unidata/awips2/unidata_15.1.1/installEDEX.sh
    chmod 755 ./installEDEX.sh
    ./installEDEX.sh

What do these scripts do?

1. Downloads http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/awips2/doc/awips2.repo to /etc/yum.repos.d/awips2.repo
2. Runs yum clean all
3. Runs yum groupinstall awips2-server and/or yum groupinstall awips2-cave

System Requirements

1. EDEX operations systems supported:

   • CentOS 5 and 6
   • Red Hat 5 and 6
   • Fedora Core 12 to 14

   Not supported for EDEX:

   • Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE, Solaris, OS X, Fedora 15+, CentOS/RHEL 7, Windows

   It will probably work on Scientific Linux.

2. selinux should be disabled (read more about selinux at redhat.com)

3. create user awips and group fxalpha and create AWIPS II directories

    groupadd fxalpha && useradd -G fxalpha awips
    mkdir -p /awips2/data_store
   

4. /etc/security/limits.conf

   Qpid is known to crash on some systems which have not defined a higher security limit for user processes and files. To be sure that Qpid can handle the high number of messages from edexBridge, add the following two lines to /etc/security/limits.conf

   printf "awips soft nproc 65536\nawips soft nofile 65536\n" >> /etc/security/limits.conf

Or copy manually:

    awips soft nproc 65536
    awips soft nofile 65536

5. /etc/sysconfig/iptables

   To serve data from an EDEX server, iptables must allow TCP connections on ports 5672, 9581 and 9582. The following lines added to /etc/sysconfig/iptables, followed by the command service iptables restart, will configure iptables for EDEX.

    -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 5672 -j ACCEPT
    -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 9581 -j ACCEPT
    -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 9582 -j ACCEPT