Installation

Prerequisites

• Java JDK 1.8
  • The newest release can be found on Oracle's webpage.
• Oracle TimesTen
  • TimesTen needs to be installed on the machine where Alpaca is to be installed.
  • Follow the official instructions to install TimesTen in a location of your choosing.
  • The TimesTen lib directory must be set in the ALPACA_TT_LIB environment variable for Alpaca to retrieve.
  • e.g. echo "export ALPACA_TT_LIB=/lib/TimesTen/tt1122/lib" >> /etc/bashrc
    
• The IP address of the Alpaca system must be in an access control list on the BroadWorks profile server.
  • Login to the Profile Server.
  • In the BWCLI navigate to /Applications/BroadworksFileRepos/NetworkAccessLists/WebDav
  • Add the IP address of the machine running Alpaca's migration tools.

Setup

• Download the Alpaca tarball
• Extract the archive in the desired location
• Move your license file (typically alpaca.license) into the conf directory of the extracted archive.
• Edit the conf/alpaca.properties.xml file to configure the BroadWorks cluster element for the desired BroadWorks install. See the configuration guide for additional information.
• Run via ./alpaca