Installing EcoStruxure IT Gateway on Linux

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EcoStruxure IT Gateway supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and 9 and Rocky Linux 8 and 9

RHEL 7 is not supported in Gateway versions 1.23 and newer.

For existing Gateway installations, deploy the current Gateway version on a supported Linux operating system. To retain sensor history, follow these instructions:

How to replace your EcoStruxure IT Gateway with a new installation

System requirements for EcoStruxure IT Gateway 

IMPORTANT: The user running the Gateway installer must have file system privileges set to umask 0022 or 0002. Otherwise, the installer cannot initialize the database.

See more User permissions requirements in System requirements for EcoStruxure IT Gateway 

Install the Gateway using the command line. Installing using the Linux GUI is not supported.

1. Download the EcoStruxure IT Gateway install package to the server. Navigate to the directory where the install package is located.  Type cd and then the directory, for example: 

cd /tmp/EcoStruxureITGateway-<version>-linux-x64.run 

2. Give executable rights to the install package. Type:

chmod 755 EcoStruxureITGateway-<version>-linux-x64.run

3. Install the EcoStruxure IT Gateway. Type:

./EcoStruxureITGateway-<version>-linux-x64.run

4. Continue through the prompts to finish the install.

5. Open a web browser and go to https://your_server_ipaddress/
   Enter a password for the admin user. 

6. Follow the prompts to configure settings and register the Gateway with EcoStruxure IT. For detailed instructions, see Installing and setting up EcoStruxure IT Gateway

7. In EcoStruxure IT, go to Administration > Gateways. You can see the Gateway is now connected to your account.