CSM Server is an automation and orchestration framework for IOS-XR devices. It provides the ability to simultaneouly deploy IOS-XR software or SMUs across multiple routers in a scheduled manner through a simple point and click Web interface. It provides the automation to relieve customers of having to perform tedious and maual install steps themselves.

Click the releases link and select the latest release and download the source code zip file. The file is called csm-x.x.zip where x.x is the release number.

For new installation, consult the Install Guide to install CSM Server. The Install Guide, install_guide.pdf, can be found in the csm directory after you unzip the zip file.

This section assumes that CSM Server has been installed on /usr/local and you wanted to upgrade to the latest code. Copy csm-x.x.zip to /usr/local and unzip its contents.

$ cd /usr/local
$ unzip csm-x.x.zip

$ cd /usr/local/csm/csmserver
$ sudo ./csmserver stop

If you are using a virtual environment, make sure you are inside the virtual environment before proceeding.

The following modules need to be installed for CSM Server built prior to 12/23/2015.

$ sudo pip install condoor
$ sudo pip install xlutils==1.7.1

If you have previously made modifications to csmserver launch script (e.g., use a different python interpreter) or database.ini (e.g., use different username and password to connect to the database), you will need to make the same changes here.

$ sudo vi /usr/local/csm/csmserver/csmserver
$ sudo vi /usr/local/csm/csmserver/database.ini

Rename the current CSM Server directory to csm_old and the csm-x.x to csm.

$ cd /usr/local
$ mv csm csm_old              
$ mv csm-x.x csm

$ cd /usr/local/csm/csmserver
$ sudo ./csmserver start

Follow these steps only if you are running CSM Server inside a virtual environment. Copy the virtual environment directory (e.g. env) that contains python interpreter and library modules from the old application directory to the new application directory.

$ cd /usr/local/csm/csmserver
$ cp –R /usr/local/csm_old/csmserver/env .
$ source env/bin/activate
$ sudo ./csmserver start