Creating an Installation Disk or USB Flash Drive

This section describes the process of creating a bootable Traffic Manager appliance installation CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, or USB flash drive.

Creating a bootable Traffic Manager CD-ROM or DVD-ROM

Unpack the Traffic Manager ZIP archive to your workstation.

Locate the Traffic Manager .iso disk image file (ZeusTM_<Version>_Appliance-x86_64.iso) from within the unpacked file set.

Insert a blank CD-ROM or DVD-ROM.

Use a suitable CD/DVD writing program to create a bootable disk from the Traffic Manager .iso disk image file.

Creating a bootable Traffic Manager USB flash drive

For USB flash drives, use the instructions that correspond to your workstation operating system - Linux/UNIX, Windows, or Macintosh.

From 21.4 release, creating a bootable USB drive is not supported and below procedure will fail to create a bootable USB drive. You can use the below instruction only for the releases before 21.4 release.

CAUTION The procedures described in this section completely erase the contents of your USB flash drive. Make sure you have a backup of any important data before you begin.

In all cases, perform the following initial steps:

Before you start, make sure your USB flash drive is compatible with the Traffic Manager appliance files. For preparation advice and instructions covering a variety of flash drive types, search the Ivanti Community website at https://forums.ivanti.com/s/?language=en_US.

Unpack the Traffic Manager ZIP archive to your workstation.

Plug your USB drive into the workstation.

Next, use one of the procedures that follows to complete the process.

To create a boot-able Traffic Manager USB flash drive on a Linux/UNIX-based workstation

Locate the USB drive device directory within your filesystem. To list all mounted filesystems and drives, use the df command in a console or terminal program. A device directory of “/dev/sdb” is typical.

CAUTION Make sure you have identified the correct device directory. The following steps overwrite everything on this device, and your workstation might become unusable if you select the wrong one.

If your USB drive has auto-mounted, type umount <device_directory> to unmount it.

Navigate to the directory containing your unpacked Traffic Manager archive.

Type zcat USB-boot.img.amd64.gz > <device_directory> to perform a raw copy of the boot files to the USB drive.

Type mount <device_directory> /mnt to re-mount the USB drive using “/mnt” as the mount point.

Type cp ZeusTM_<Version>_Appliance-x86_64.iso /mnt to copy the Traffic Manager appliance .iso file onto the USB drive.

Do not continue until you are satisfied that the file copy process has completed. For example, if your USB drive has a flashing light to indicate when data is being written to it, wait until this indicates completion.

Type umount <device_directory> to unmount the USB drive.

Type sync to force completion of any pending disk writes.

Remove your USB drive.

To create a boot-able Traffic Manager USB flash drive on a Windows-based workstation

Download the free “Win32DiskImager” tool (https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager).

Locate and unzip USB-boot.img.amd64.gz.

Rename the unzipped file to USB-boot.img.

Start Win32DiskImager and perform the following actions:

Set Image file to “USB-boot.img”.

Set Device to your USB drive.

Click "Write".

After the image has completed writing, exit the application.

Locate and copy ZeusTM_<Version>_Appliance-x86_64.iso to the root of the USB drive.

Eject and remove the USB drive.

To create a boot-able Traffic Manager USB flash drive on a Macintosh-based workstation

Open a Terminal window.

Change directory to the location of the unzipped Traffic Manager archive.

Run the command diskutil list to get the current list of devices and thus to determine the device node assigned to your USB drive (for example, “/dev/disk2”).

Run the command diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskN (where diskN is replaced with the device identifier from the previous command.

Run the command sudo -s.

Run the command gunzip -c USB-boot.img.amd64.gz > /dev/rdiskN to write the extracted contents of the boot image tarball to the USB drive (note the use of /dev/rdiskN instead of /dev/diskN -in most cases this improves the speed of data transfer).

gunzip -c is equivalent to zcat. See the respective manpages for more details.

Run the command sync to force completion of any pending disk writes.

Run the command exit to exit the superuser shell.

Run the command diskutil eject /dev/diskN to unmount the USB drive from your filesystem.

Close the terminal window.

Remove the USB drive, then reinsert it.

Copy the disk image file ZeusTM_<version>_Appliance-x86_64.iso to the USB drive.

After the copy process has completed, eject and remove the USB drive.