Introduction

The RaspberryPi collector is built upon a Customer or Business Partner supplied 'Raspberry Pi 2 Model B' or 'Raspberry Pi 3 Model B' device.
Virsae will provide the software image to be loaded onto a MicroSD card. As the Raspberry Pi is purchased as a bare circuit board you will also need a suitable full enclosure case and Micro USB power supply for the Raspberry Pi. 

System Requirements

System requirements for the Raspberry Pi collector are listed below:

Installation

Make sure you have download the latest Raspberry Pi image file from the Service Desk> Files and Folders> Shared with me> Virsae> VSM> VSM Software> Raspberry Pi.

Right-Click the 'VSM Client RaspberryOS XXXX.zip' file and download. Once downloaded, extract the file.

Installation of the Raspberry Pi collector is comprised of two parts:

1. Burning the ISO software image to the Micro SD Card; and
2. Connecting the Raspberry Pi to the customer's network and setting customer configuration.

Burning the ISO Image to Micro SD

Insert your Micro SD card into a card reader attached to your PC (You may need to use an adaptor to a full-size SD card adaptor for this).

Browse to the C:\Program Files (x86)\Virsae Group\VSM Express Tool\where you extracted the RPi.zip file, then go into the Win32DiskImager directory and run Win32DiskImager.exe.

You may receive a User Account Control dialogue, if so check the program name is correct and then select Yes:

Win32 Disk Imager should now have opened:

Click the folder icon and browse to where you extracted the desired disk image:

Click open.

Check that the ‘Device’ Selected is the Micro SD card you inserted and then select ‘Write’

You may will be prompted to confirm that want to overwrite the existing data on the SD Card.

If overwriting, if you are sure that you selected the correct drive in ‘Device’ then click 'Yes'.

If you receive a ‘Write Error’, either you have a Micro SD card of a lesser capacity than required that is less than the required size or it already contains some data:

If your Micro SD Card came pre-loaded with any software or was is not new, you may need to format the card first.

Go to My Computer, identify the card and right-click the drive, select Format from the options. Select Format, then format the card as fat32 and quick format:a Fat32 and check 'Quick Format'.

Once the format is complete When formatted, go back to Win32 Disk Imager and click Write. The software image will then be written to the MicroSD Card, this .

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When complete, click ‘OK’ on the Write Successful Dialogue and close Win32 Disk Imager by clicking Exit:.

Click OK.

Connecting to the Customer's network and Customer Configuration

Remove the Micro SD Card from your PC or adaptor and insert this into the slot on the bottom of the Raspberry Pi.

Connect the Raspberry Pi and your PC to the same network (same subnet) with a cat5 or higher Ethernet cable.

Connect the Micro USB power supply to a power source (Preferably UPS and surge-protected) and , then insert the micro USB cable into the port on the side of the Raspberry Pi, at . At this point the Raspberry Pi will begin to boot up.

On your PC, find the VSM Express Management tool (The VSMExpressManagementTool.exe application from C:\Program Files (x86)\Virsae Group\VSM Express Tool directory) right Click and select ‘Run As Administrator’.

You may receive a Windows Security Alert popup if so check the details refer to Virsae Group Ltd and Virsae.com click Allow Access:

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