Installation

Recipes

Install ZTPServer from Github Source

Objective

I want to install ZTPServer from source.

Solution

To install the latest code in development:

# Change to desired download directory
mkdir -p ~/arista
cd ~/arista
git clone https://github.com/arista-eosplus/ztpserver.git
cd ztpserver
python setup.py build
python setup.py install

Or, to install a specific tagged release:

# Change to desired download directory
mkdir -p ~/arista
cd ~/arista
git clone https://github.com/arista-eosplus/ztpserver.git
cd ztpserver
git checkout v1.2.0
python setup.py build
python setup.py install

Explanation

Github is used to store the source code for the ZTPServer and the develop branch always contains the latest publicly available code. The first method above clones the git repo and automatically checks out the develop branch. We then build and install using Python.

The second method uses the git checkout command to set your working directory to a specific release of the ZTPServer. Both methods of installation will produce the files below.

Important Installation Files

  • ZTPServer Global Configuration File: /etc/ztpserver/ztpserver.conf

  • ZTPServer WSGI App: /etc/ztpserver/ztpserver.wsgi

  • ZTPServer Provisioning Files: /usr/share/ztpserver/ known as data_root

  • Bootstrap Config File: /usr/share/ztpserver/bootstrap/bootstrap.conf

  • Bootstrap Python Script: /usr/share/ztpserver/bootstrap/bootstrap

Install ZTPServer using PIP

Objective

Install ZTPServer using PyPI(pip)

Solution

This option assumes you have a server with Python and pip pre-installed. See installing pip.

Once pip is installed, type:

pip install ztpserver

Explanation

The pip install process will install all dependencies and run the install script, leaving you with a ZTPServer instance ready to configure.

Important Installation Files

  • ZTPServer Global Configuration File: /etc/ztpserver/ztpserver.conf

  • ZTPServer WSGI App: /etc/ztpserver/ztpserver.wsgi

  • ZTPServer Provisioning Files: /usr/share/ztpserver/ known as data_root

  • Bootstrap Config File: /usr/share/ztpserver/bootstrap/bootstrap.conf

  • Bootstrap Python Script: /usr/share/ztpserver/bootstrap/bootstrap