= Installation =

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1. Prerequisites
 * See [wiki:Prereqs] page

2. Configure communication settings
 * copy examples/bcfg2.conf /etc/bcfg2.conf
 * Choose a port for the bcfg2 server
 * Set the bcfg2= line in components section bcfg2.conf to point at the server location [[BR]]
   bcfg2=https://servername.domain.com:port
 * Choose a shared secret password, placing it in the password= line of the communication section of /etc/bcfg2.conf

3. Generate an ssl cert
 * openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 1000 -newkey rsa:1024 -out cert.pem -keyout cert.pem
 * Set the key= line in the communication section of bcfg2.conf to point at this new certificate

4. Install the [ftp://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/bcfg/bcfg2-0.8-demo-repo.tar.gz example repository]
 * Untar this file into your repository location
 * Set this location in the repository line of the server section of /etc/bcfg2.conf

5. Start up the bcfg2 server
 * /etc/init.d/bcfg2-server start

6. Copy bcfg2.conf to clients
 * remove the key= line and server section; they aren't needed on clients

The server is now up and running. Now you need to create your configuration specification.