Installing the Traffic Manager Software

The Traffic Manager software must be installed, configured and started as root. Root privileges are necessary to bind to ports lower than 1024 (for example, port 80 for HTTP) and to provide front-end fault tolerance.

To install the Traffic Manager software

Become the system superuser (also known as the "root" user). For instructions on how to become the superuser, see your host operating system documentation.

Change directories to the directory to where the tar archive was extracted (for example, ZeusTM_ProductVersion_OS).

Start the installation program (zinstall) by using the following command.

For EC2:

./zinstall --ec2

For GCE:

./zinstall --gce

You should observe the following initial output:

You are installing a package built for Linux-x86_64

Ivanti Installation Program - Copyright (C) 2026, Ivanti, Inc.. All rights reserved.

Checking distribution ... all packages match checksums

Read the Ivanti End User License Agreement. If you agree with these terms, type accept at the prompt.

When prompted, specify a destination directory for the Traffic Manager software or use the default destination directory (/usr/local/zeus).

You can install the Traffic Manager software anywhere on your file system, but you must not install it in the same directory as any other Traffic Manager products. The Traffic Manager software installation directory is called $ZEUSHOME.

The Traffic Manager Admin UI accesses the configuration and stores state information and lock files under the $ZEUSHOME directory. Ivanti strongly recommends that you locate $ZEUSHOME on a local file system with sufficient disk space, or on a fast, reliable, shared file system. The Traffic Manager Admin UI might be slow or unresponsive if the file system it uses is slow or unresponsive.

After you specify the destination directory, the following messages appear:

Virtual Traffic Manager is now installed in /usr/local/zeus.
Are you ready to perform the initial configuration now ? (Y/N) [Y]:

Type Y to run the configuration script now, or type N to run it later.

Press Enter.

Performing an Unattended Traffic Manager Software Installation

In some situations, (for example, when rebuilding multiple machines) you may want to automate the installation of the Traffic Manager software. The zinstall script can record specific installation options to a replay file, and then use those options when installing the Traffic Manager software on a another machine.

To perform an unattended Traffic Manager software installation

In the command samples that follow, <variant> must be either ec2 or gce depending on your deployment type.

To create a replay file, add the --record-to option to the zinstall script command, as shown below:

./zinstall --<variant> --record-to=bvtm_install.txt

When prompted to run the configuration script, you must answer No. Otherwise, a replay file is not created. The installation and configuration steps have to be recorded and replayed separately.

To reuse the installation options, add the --replay-from option to the command, as shown below:

./zinstall --<variant> --replay-from=bvtm_install.txt

This command runs the zinstall script using the answers you provided in the replay file. For any unanswered questions, the zinstall script pauses until an answer is provided. To stop the zinstall script, enter the --noninteractive option at the command line.

You can also run the configure script automatically using the same method. Be aware that passwords appear in plain text inside the replay file. However, passwords are not printed in the output of the configure program.

You can delete the password line in a newly generated replay file. You will prompted for the password later (unless you specified the --noninteractive option at the command line).