Spirent TestCenter - Installation Option 2: Using the Website

Appendix B: Upgrade/Downgrade Procedures
Installation Option 2: Using the Website
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Installation Option 2: Using the Website
If you have a Spirent Communications Support Entitlement, you can download Spirent
TestCenter installation files from the Spirent Customer Service (CSC) website. If you do
not have Support Entitlement, contact support@spirent.com
for assistance.
Install Spirent TestCenter Applications
To install Spirent TestCenter applications on a Linux workstation, download shell-based
installers and a documentation tarball.
Tip: Spirent TestCenter Extreme Automation Toolkit users: Refer to the Spirent
TestCenter Extreme Automation Toolkit Release Notes for installation instructions. Go to
the Spirent Knowledge Base and search using the document title or DOC10751.
To install Spirent TestCenter Automation:
1 Navigate to
https://support.spirent.com and then login.
First time website users, register for a login user ID and password.
2 Click the Downloads icon in the left panel menu.
3 From the Filter options, select General Release as the Release Type, and select
Spirent TestCenter from the Product Line list.
4 In the Filter by Release drop-down list, select the version to download.
5 Click the install_Spirent_TestCenter_Auto_Linux link for the version you want.
6 Click Download to save the installer.
7 Click Save in the File Download dialog box, and then use the Save As dialog to save
the file to your
/home/user directory.
8 Return to the Downloads list when the download is complete.
9 Select the Spirent TestCenter documentation tarball for Linux and save it to the
/home/user directory.
10 Run the shell-based installer. For example:
./install_Spirent_TestCenter_Auto_Linux64_[x.xx].sh
11 Use tar to extract the documentation from the tarball. For example, use the following
command for a Linux file:
tar -xzvf Spirent_TestCenter_Docs_Linux_Unix[x.xx].tar.gz
12 Log off the website.
13 Set up Tcl [x.x.xx], Perl, C++, Java, Ruby, Python, C#, or REST for use with Spirent
TestCenter.
Note: If you do not use the Tcl [x.x.xx] (configured for Spirent TestCenter Automation)
installer, you must manually configure your automation environment. Setup instructions
for each environment are in readme format, located in the <Spirent_Install_Dir>/API
folder with sub-directories matching the language name. For example:
/home/user/Spirent_TestCenter_[x.xx]/Spirent_TestCenter_Application_Linux/API/Tcl