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Traffic Portal Administration
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The following are requirements to ensure an accurate set up:

* CentOS 6.7 or 7
* Node.js 6.0.x or above

**Installing Traffic Portal**

	- Download the Traffic Portal RPM from the traffic control `downloads <http://traffic-control-cdn.net/downloads/index.html>`_ page or build from `source <https://github.com/Comcast/traffic_control/tree/master/traffic_portal/build>`_.
	- Copy the Traffic Portal RPM to your server
	- curl --silent --location https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | sudo bash -
	- sudo yum install -y nodejs
	- sudo yum install -y <traffic_portal rpm>

**Configuring Traffic Portal**

	- cd /etc/traffic_portal/conf
	- sudo cp config-template.js config.js
	- sudo vi config.js (read the inline comments)
	- [OPTIONAL] sudo vi /opt/traffic_portal/public/traffic_portal_properties.json (to customize traffic portal content)
	- [OPTIONAL] sudo vi /opt/traffic_portal/public/resources/assets/css/custom.css (to customize traffic portal skin)

**Starting Traffic Portal**

	- sudo service traffic_portal start

**Stopping Traffic Portal**

	- sudo service traffic_portal stop