Version: 8.1

ZIP File Installations

Aside from the graphical installers, our downloads page features ZIP files that can be used to install and run Ignition. The ZIP file installation process differs from the graphical installation process. Using the ZIP files to install involves following the included README file, which contains instructions on how to use the content of the ZIP.

caution

If you are performing an upgrade, it is important to not overwrite the Ignition Configuration File (ignition.conf), as overwriting the ignition.conf file can cause the upgrade to fail.

Upgrading Ignition Service on Linux

Changed in 8.1.13

If you installed Ignition as a service on Linux, you will need to first remove the service before upgrading to a new edition and reinstalling the service.

./ignition.sh remove

Deploying Ignition to Another System

New in 8.1.2

Some users are interested in "preconfiguring" an Ignition Gateway. That is, configuring an instance of an installation, and then moving the installation files to a new server. This can be useful in cases where you're attempting to push out new Ignition installations via command-line interface to multiple separate systems. Normally, you need to install Ignition manually on each of these systems and walkthrough the commissioning process to create an initial user and select an Ignition edition, which defeats the purpose of this whole deployment strategy. Thus, the following example will demonstrate how to deploy a preconfigured Ignition Gateway that has already been commissioned and is ready to start up.

Requirements

note

Although you can run the Ignition Gateway and Perspective Sessions on ARM-based Desktops (such as a Raspberry Pi), the Designer, Vision Client, and Perspective Workstation cannot be run on ARM-based Linux machines. Instead, the Designer, Vision Client, or Perspective Workstation will need to be installed and run from an Intel-based machine.

You'll need the following:

A ZIP installer for the OS and Ignition Version you're planning to deploy on. ZIP installers can be found on our Downloads page.
An existing Ignition Gateway where you already accepted the End User License Agreement (EULA). This existing Gateway must match the Ignition version of the system you're going to deploy to. If you don't have an install available, simply run through the installation process once, agree to the terms in the EULA, and finish the rest of the commissioning process. Accepting the EULA is important because you'll need to manually do this once.
An Ignition Gateway backup from an existing system. We'll use this to define the initial user, and carry over any other resources we want on the new system. This can be a backup from the Gateway you used in the previous requirement. We'll use this backup to inject a user account that only you have credentials for.

Example

Locate the EULA hash from your existing Ignition Gateway. You will find the hash in the commissioning.json file in Gateway's installation directory: %installDirectory%/data/commissioning.json.
note
You'll only find this file on systems that have completed the commissioning process.
Part of the commissioning process involves accepting the EULA. The steps in this guide involve skipping the commissioning process, including the EULA. Thus, to be able to follow along with this guide you'll need to review the terms in the EULA and manually accept them on a separate system.
Open the file in a text editor, and copy the value for the eulaSetup.eula key, including the quotation marks. For example, assuming a file looked like the entry below, you would copy "XXXXX" (the actual hash will be much longer). Save this value for later, as we'll need to reference it in a future step.
```
{
"isCommissioned": "COMMISSIONED",
"connections.useSsl": "false",
"eulaSetup.eula": "XXXXX"
}
```
Next, take the Ignition installer and unzip it into a directory that's easily accessible. This directory will be the base directory that we'll ultimately end up deploying to on one or more different servers.
In the base directory, edit the Gateway's configuration file (ignition.conf) using the text editor of your choice. The file is located at %baseDirectory%/data/ignition.conf .
Part of the installation process normally includes an edition selection, but we can bypass that by modifying the configuration file to explicitly state which edition the Gateway should be set to. Located the "Java Additional Parameters" line in the configuration file. The should have some entries like the following:
```
# Java Additional Parameters
wrapper.java.additional.1=-Ddata.dir=data
#wrapper.java.additional.2=-Xdebug
#wrapper.java.additional.3=-Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=*:8000
```
at the end of that section, add the following:
```
wrapper.java.additional.2=-Dedition=%value%
```
Where %value% is the edition, you want the deployed system to use: "edge" for Ignition Edge, and "maker" for Ignition Maker. For "standard" edition, simply omit the "=%value%" portion. For example, the file should look something like the following when configuring for Standard edition:
```
# Java Additional Parameters
wrapper.java.additional.1=-Ddata.dir=data
#wrapper.java.additional.2=-Xdebug
#wrapper.java.additional.3=-Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=*:8000
wrapper.java.additional.2=-Dedition
```
And the file would look like the following if deploying Edge edition:
```
# Java Additional Parameters
wrapper.java.additional.1=-Ddata.dir=data
#wrapper.java.additional.2=-Xdebug
#wrapper.java.additional.3=-Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=*:8000
wrapper.java.additional.2=-Dedition=edge
```
Save the changes you made to the configuration file.
Also in %baseDirectory%/data/, create a text file and call it commissioning.json.
Edit the newly created commissioning file, and set contents to the following:
```
{
"isCommissioned": "COMMISSIONING",
"connections.useSsl": "false",
"eulaSetup.accepted": "true",
"eulaSetup.eula": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
"authSetup.username": "admin",
"authSetup.password": "[e811cfc7]fc3b28ad5f73331c94790129f0931437ac31d59376b0e4b15df580a8841ba165"
}
```
The JSON above does a couple of things, but notably defines an initial user on the new system. The user is "admin", with a password of "password". Later, we'll restore from our Gateway backup which will replace this initial user, but for now, we simply need to have a user to bypass commissioning.
In the same commissioning file, replace the value of the eulaSetup.eula key with the value you took from step 2.
Save the commissioning file.
At this point, you're ready to deploy. Take the contents of your base directory, move them to a new server, and perform a normal ZIP installation. When the Gateway starts, it will bypass the commissioning process and the Gateway will immediately startup.
Once the Gateway is running, you can use the admin user we configured earlier to access the newly deployed instance of Ignition. From here, you can restore from the Gateway Backup file mentioned in the requirements section of this guide. You can do this from command-line which would look something like the following:
```
gwcmd --restore /path/to/your/GWBK
```

Upgrading Ignition Service on Linux​

Deploying Ignition to Another System​

Requirements​

Example​

Upgrading Ignition Service on Linux

Deploying Ignition to Another System

Requirements

Example