Offline Installations and Upgrades¶

For customers that have an appliance behind a firewall/proxy that does not allow downloads from our Amazon download site, you can add the supplemental package to add the needed packages the standard Morpheus installer would have downloaded.

This page covers offline installation and application-package upgrades for the HPE Morpheus Software appliance. It does not supply Ubuntu base-OS updates for the HPE Morpheus Manager QCOW2 image. For restricted-network and fully disconnected APT repository models, see Morpheus Manager Base OS Updates. Offline HKS cluster provisioning uses a separate image-server workflow; see HKS Offline Provisioning and Upgrades.

Offline Installation Requirements¶

• NTP should be correctly configured and the server is able to connect to the NTP server in the ntp.conf file

• The OS package repositories should be configured to use local LAN repository servers or the server should be able to receive packages from the configured repositories. For a Manager QCOW2 appliance, expose only the update content validated by HPE for the installed release.

• The standard Morpheus and supplemental packages must be downloaded from another system and transferred to the Morpheus Appliance server

• The supplemental package is additive, the full installer is also required

Offline Install¶

Ubuntu/Debian¶

1. Download both the regular Morpheus Appliance package and the Supplemental packages on to the appliance server:

   wget http://example_url/morpheus-appliance_version_amd64.deb
   wget http://example_url/morpheus-appliance-supplemental_version_all.deb
   

2. Install the both the Appliance package AND the Supplemental package.

   sudo dpkg -i morpheus-appliance_version_amd64.deb
   sudo dpkg -i morpheus-appliance-supplemental_version_all.deb
   

3. Set the Morpheus UI appliance url (if needed, hostname will be automatically set).

   # edit appliance_url to resolvable url (if not configured correctly by default)
   
   sudo vi /etc/morpheus/morpheus.rb
   

4. Reconfigure the appliance to install required packages

   sudo morpheus-ctl reconfigure
   

The Chef run should complete successfully. There is a small pause when Chef runs the resource remote_file[package_name] action create while Chef verifies the checksum. After the reconfigure is complete, the morpheus-ui will start and be up in a few minutes.

CentOS/RHEL¶

1. Download both the regular Morpheus Appliance package and the matching Supplemental package on to the Appliance server:

   wget http://example_url/morpheus-appliance_package_url.noarch.rpm
   wget http://example_url/morpheus-appliance_package_supplemental_url.noarch.rpm
   

2. Install the both the Appliance package AND the Supplemental package.

   sudo rpm -i morpheus-appliance_package_url.noarch.rpm
   sudo rpm -i morpheus-appliance_package_supplemental_url.noarch.rpm
   

3. Set the Morpheus UI appliance url (if needed, hostname will be automatically set).

   #Edit appliance_url to resolvable url (if not configured correctly by default)
   
   sudo vi /etc/morpheus/morpheus.rb
   

4. Reconfigure the appliance to install required packages

   sudo morpheus-ctl reconfigure
   

The Chef run should complete successfully. There is a small pause when Chef runs the resource remote_file[package_name] action create while Chef verifies the checksum. After the reconfigure is complete, the morpheus-ui will start and be up in a few minutes.