2N® NetStar SW Installation

Basic Information

The 2N® NetStar SW installation package consists of the 2N® NetStar SW Admin Tool application and an ISO file, which includes the 2N® NetStar SW installation software. The 2N® NetStar SW Admin Tool (hereinafter referred to as the Tool) is designed for the x86 platform with OS Window 7 and higher and communicates with 2N® NetStar SW via TCP port 6992 by default. Upon installation, the 2N® NetStar SW installation and upgrade software is located in the installation folder of the Software subtab as selected during installation.

Installation

The 2N® NetStar SW telecommunications system can be installed onto the following virtualisation platforms: VMware, Oracle VM VirtualBox or Microsoft Hyper-V.

Caution

  • While installing 2N® NetStar SW keep the following virtualisation platform configuration requirements to avoid malfunction!
    • minimum of 1 GB of RAM
    • minimum of 20 GB hard drive free space (without recording)

Note

  • Make sure before installing 2N® NetStar SW onto a virtualisation platform that VT-x or AMD-V or any other similar virtualisation function is enabled according to the hardware PC microcontroller type.

Example of Installation onto Virtualisation Platform

Insert the 2N® NetStar SW installation ISO file in the CD/DVD drive in your virtualisation platform that meets the minimum requirements above. Having set booting from the CD/DVD drive, start the virtual PC. Once the ISO file is loaded, you can see the following screen:

Select the first option and choose the keyboard language on the next screen. Then click Enter to continue.

The following four screens invite you to enter the system IP address, mask, default gateway and DNS server address respectively. Make sure that all of the said values are completed to make the system work properly.
The virtual PC will be restarted upon installation. If the booting sequence was changed in the virtual PC configuration, you are recommended to put hard drive booting to the first place again.

After hard drive loading, the following login window will be displayed:

Now the installation has been completed. Use the 2N® NetStar SW Admin Tool to put the system in operation. Refer to the 2N® NetStar SW Admin Tool manual in S. 1 for details.