Appliance Distributed Controller Change

Jul 2018

When installing MFEL, you have to select whether you are doing an Appliance or Distributed installation.
In Appliance mode, the Controller, Licensing and MFEL are all on the same server.
In Distributed mode, MFEL will be on a server, and it's licensing and Controller will be on another server.
The issue here is if you want to use an MFEL that has been part of a distributed system, as a standalone server.

Convert Distributed MFEL to Standalone MFEL

On the MFEL, you need to firstly install the controller, you can check the installation documentation for a full explanation of this, but basically you need to run the following from the folder you unpacked the Controller software in to:

./install.sh

This will install the Controller software, that would have been originally on another server.
Next, the installation instructions tell us to run the following script:

/opt/ericsson/controller/setup/configure.sh --serverID standalone --controllerIP1 x.x.x.x

Where –serverID would normally be standalone and –controllerIP1 is the IP Address of the MFEL.