# Deployment of cfxEdgeCollector

The following are pre-requisites for the deployment of cfxEdgeCollector.

1. Virtual Machine  or Bare Metal Host
2. CentOS/RHEL Operating System - 7.6 or above
3. Docker Software - 18.03.1-ce or above
4. Virtual Machine or Bare metal server resource requirements
   1. CPU -- 2 vCPU
   2. RAM -- 8GB
   3. Storage -- 50GB
5. Sudo privileges to the user
6. Configure CentOS operating system to allow port 8888 on the host (using firewall command).
7. CloudFabrix alternatively provides a VMWare based virtual machine (OVF) that can be used for deploying cfxEdgeCollector.

#### Installation of cfxEdgeCollector

Download the cfxEdgeCollector software package to the user's home directory. The filename and format is cfxedgecollector-\<version-number>.tar.gz (e.g. cfxedgecollector-1.0.30.tar.gz).&#x20;

Run the below command to install cfxEdgeCollector software. (Note: Replace the cfxEdgeCollector software package file name with an approrpiate one)

```
sudo pip install cfxedgecollector-1.0.30.tar.gz
```

Create the following directory structure on the system where cfxEdgeCollector will be installed.

* Job Directory (**jobs**) - cfxEdgeCollector uses this directory to store all user-defined job configuration.
* Data Directory (**data**) - cfxEdgeCollector uses this directory to store all the collected inventory data of a job.
* Exported Directory (**exporteddata**) -  cfxEdgeCollector uses this directory to store inventory data that will be exported to back-end applications (cfxAIA).
* Backup Directory (**backup**) - cfxEdgeCollector uses this directory to store backup data.
* Config Directory (**config**) - cfxEdgeCollector uses this directory to store customer configurations&#x20;

Execute the following commands to create the directories.

```
mkdir -p /opt/CloudFabrix/jobs
mkdir -p /opt/CloudFabrix/data
mkdir -p /opt/CloudFabrix/exporteddata
mkdir -p /opt/CloudFabrix/backup
mkdir -p /opt/CloudFabrix/config
```