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System requirements for the Raspberry Pi appliance are listed below:
Table 1 – VSM Express Raspberry Pi resource requirements
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You may receive a User Account Control dialogue, if so check the program name is correct and then select Yes:
Figure 1 – Raspberry Pi Account Control Dialogue
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Win32 Disk Imager should now have opened:
Figure 2 - Raspberry Pi Disk Imager
Click the folder icon and browse to the desired disk image:
Figure 3 - Raspberry Pi Select Disk Image
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Check that the ‘Device’ Selected is the Micro SD card you inserted and then select ‘Write’
Figure 4 – Raspberry Pi Select Device
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You may be prompted to confirm overwriting, if you are sure that you selected the correct drive in ‘Device’ then click Yes.
Figure 5 – Raspberry Pi Confirm Overwrite
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If you receive a ‘Write Error’ either you have a Micro SD card of a lesser capacity than 8GB or it already contains some data:
Figure 6 – Raspberry Pi Write Error
If your Micro SD Card came pre-loaded with any software or was 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. Format the card as fat32 and quick format:
Figure 7 – Raspberry Pi Format SD Card
Figure 8 – Raspberry Pi Format Boot
Once the format is complete go back to Win32 Disk Imager and click Write. The software image will then be written to the MicroSD Card, this may take up to 30 minutes to complete:
Figure 9 – Raspberry Pi Disk Imager
When complete click ‘OK’ on the Write Successful Dialogue and close Win32 Disk Imager by clicking Exit:
Figure 10 – Raspberry Pi Disk Image Complete
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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’.
Figure 11 – Raspberry Pi Management Tool
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You may receive a Windows Security Alert popup if so check the details refer to Virsae Group Ltd and Virsae.com click Allow Access:
Figure 12 – Raspberry Pi Management Tool Security Alert
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The VSM Express Tool will then open and will automatically detect the Raspberry Pi:
Figure 13 – Raspberry Pi Management Panel
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Right click on the Detected Raspberry Pi and select ‘Set Customer and Location ID’s via the Web’:
Figure 14 – Raspberry Pi Management via Web
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The Virsae Setup window will open, you will need to enter your Virsae credentials and click Login:
Figure 15 – Raspberry Pi Virsae Setup
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Once logged in you will need to select the Customer and Location that you setup earlier in the VSM Web Portal:
Figure 16 – Raspberry Pi Virsae Setup Customer and Location
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The Customer and Location Id Setup window will close. The Customer and location fields will now be populated correctly in the VSM Express Tool:
Figure 17 – Raspberry Pi Customer and Location Populated
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To set a Static IP address on the Raspberry Pi you can either reserve its address via DHCP or you can set a static IP address and configure it manually on the Raspberry Pi.
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To configure the IP address manually right click on the Raspberry Pi in the VSM Express Tool and select Connect Via SSH:
Figure 18 – Raspberry Pi Connect via SSH
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VirsaeTTY will launch and you should receive a login prompt to the Raspberry Pi operating system, use the following credentials (They are case sensitive):
Table 2 – Raspberry Pi SSH Credentials
Username | Password |
administrator | Administrator |
Figure 19 – Raspberry Pi SSH Login
After entering the credentials you will be given the Debian command prompt:
Figure 20 – Raspberry Pi Debian Command Prompt
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Enter the command ‘sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces’ and hit enter:
Figure 21 – Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Network Interfaces Command
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The Nano text editor will open with the Interfaces file.
Figure 22 – Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Network Interfaces File
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You will also need to enter the following lines to this file, see screenshot below for an example.
Table 3 – Raspberry Pi Static IP Address Details
Line | Value |
address | The IP address you want VSM Express to assume (in the proper range for you network). Note: Pay attention to not use an IP already used by another device in your LAN or that can be assigned to another device by your router via DHCP |
netmask | 255.255.255.0 |
network | Same format as your IP address but usually ends in .0 Note: If for example your LAN is configured to have IP addresses in the range x.x.x.1 to x.x.x.255, you will put x.x.x.0 in the network line. |
broadcast | Same format as your IP address but ends in 255 |
gateway | This is usually your router IP |
Figure 23 – Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Network Interfaces Example
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You will be prompted to save the modified buffer, if you are happy with your changes press y if not press n:
Figure 24 – Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Network Interfaces Save Changes
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If you press 'y' you will be prompted for the file name to save as, Check that this is /etc/network/interfaces and then press enter:
Figure 25 – Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Network Interfaces Save As
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To set the DNS server we will need to edit the /etc/resolv.conf, to do this enter the command ‘sudo nano /etc/resolv.conf’ and hit enter:
Figure 26 – Raspberry Pi 2 Model B DNS
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Change the ‘nameserver’ IP address to your DNS server, then press ‘ctrl-X’ to exit the nano editor:
Figure 27 – Raspberry Pi 2 Model B DNS NameServer
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You will be prompted to save the modified buffer, if you are happy with your changes press y if not press n:
Figure 28 – Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Save Changes
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If you press y you will be prompted for the file name to save as, check that this is /etc/resolv.conf and then press enter:
Figure 29 – Raspberry Pi 2 Model B DNS Save As
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| At this point, the commands for Raspberry Pi 2 Model B and Raspberry Pi 3 Model B are again the same. Goto section 4.2.3.3Go to #Res |
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
Enter the command ‘sudo nano /etc/dhcpcd.conf’ and hit enter
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