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<div class="section" id="traffic-router-administration">
<h1>Traffic Router Administration<a class="headerlink" href="#traffic-router-administration" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<div class="section" id="installing-traffic-router">
<h2>Installing Traffic Router<a class="headerlink" href="#installing-traffic-router" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>The following are requirements to ensure an accurate set up:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>CentOS 6</li>
<li>4 vCPUs</li>
<li>8GB RAM</li>
<li>Successful install of Traffic Ops</li>
<li>Successful install of Traffic Monitor</li>
<li>Administrative access to the Traffic Ops</li>
<li>Physical address of the site</li>
<li>perl-JSON</li>
<li>perl-WWW-Curl</li>
</ul>
<ol class="arabic simple">
<li>Enter the Traffic Router server into Traffic Ops.</li>
<li>Make sure the FQDN of the Traffic Monitor is resolvable in DNS.</li>
<li>Install a traffic router: <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">sudo</span> <span class="pre">yum</span> <span class="pre">install</span> <span class="pre">traffic_router</span></code>.</li>
<li>Edit <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/opt/traffic_router/conf/traffic_monitor.properties</span></code> and put in the correct online Traffic Monitor(s) for your CDN.</li>
</ol>
<blockquote>
<div><p>Example:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre># list of ips or hostnames delimited by semicolon (;)
traffic_monitor.bootstrap.hosts=traffic-mon-01.cdn.kabletown.net:80;
# Instead of using the traffic_monitor.bootstrap.hosts property as a bootstrap
# source before switching to ONLINE Monitors in the TrConfig, always
# use the hosts listed for TrConfig and TrStates. Defaults to false.
traffic_monitor.bootstrap.local = false
# traffic_monitor.properties: url that should normally point to this file
traffic_monitor.properties=file:/opt/traffic_router/conf/traffic_monitor.properties
# Frequency for reloading this file
# traffic_monitor.properties.reload.period=60000
</pre></div>
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</div></blockquote>
<ol class="arabic simple" start="5">
<li>Start Tomcat: <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">sudo</span> <span class="pre">service</span> <span class="pre">tomcat</span> <span class="pre">start</span></code>, and test lookups with dig and curl against that server.</li>
<li>Snapshot CRConfig</li>
</ol>
<ul class="simple">
<li>This instantly associates production traffic on the servers. They need to be online when you change the DNS records.</li>
</ul>
<ol class="arabic simple" start="7">
<li>Add the correct DNS entries to the SOA records for the CDN on which you are working.</li>
<li>Add the servers to the NS and SOA records for your domain.</li>
</ol>
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<div class="section" id="configuring-traffic-router">
<h2>Configuring Traffic Router<a class="headerlink" href="#configuring-traffic-router" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<ol class="arabic simple">
<li>From <strong>Misc &gt; Profiles</strong>, verify the following:</li>
</ol>
<blockquote>
<div><ul class="simple">
<li>The Traffic Router information.</li>
<li>The profile is set correctly.</li>
<li>The Status is set to OFFLINE.</li>
</ul>
</div></blockquote>
<ol class="arabic simple" start="2">
<li>Verify the functionality of the DNS entry for the Traffic Router.</li>
<li>Click <strong>Tools &gt; Generate ISO</strong>.</li>
<li>Complete the necessary fields.</li>
<li>Click <strong>Download ISO</strong>.</li>
</ol>
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<h2>Troubleshooting and log files<a class="headerlink" href="#troubleshooting-and-log-files" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Traffic Router log files are in <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/opt/traffic_router/var/log/</span></code>, and tomcat log files are in <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/opt/tomcat/logs/</span></code>.</p>
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