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Astronaut™ VistA Server Installer. 0.9-0 (Beta release) (Nov 30, 2009)

This is not a final release. Experimental releases should only be used for testing and development. Do not use these on production sites, and make sure you have proper backups before installing.

This release changes the default communication id names in order to accomodate side by side instances of different VistA brands as well as a 'universal' client installer. Both Astronaut WorldVistA(tm) and Medsphere OpenVistA(tm) based editions are available and should work out of the box with the client installer.

For additional information about this project, please visit the project page .

Available downloads

rpm or deb

For Linux (160 Mb)

Release Notes

Tested with Plone 4.0
State Beta release
License AGPLv3
Release Manager I. Valdes

Astronaut VistA Server Installers for Linux Beta 0.9-0 (Saturn V) (see
WorldVistA license below)

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Description: Installs Astronautized WorldVistA(tm) EHR/VOE 1.0 or
OpenVistA(tm) via rpm (Fedora/RedHat) or dpkg (.deb file
Ubuntu/Debian)

Downloads: Astronaut WorldVistA(tm) based edition
http://sourceforge.net/projects/worldvistaautoi/files/ Astronaut
Medsphere OpenVista(tm) based edition (not an official Medsphere
OpenVista(tm)) http://sourceforge.net/projects/astronautnostro/files/

Changes: Changed the client communication id convention to
client<port> and text<port> as well as other files to allow for a
universal client installer and the same instance name as long as
<branding>vista is different. For the Astronaut WorldVistA(tm)
edition, changed MENU TEXT field of the OR CPRS GUI CHART entry in the
OPTION file from 1.0.26.76  to 1.0.26.66 to allow a universal client
installer. The Astronaut OpenVistA(tm) edition has been transformed to
VistA Standard Base section I conformance. For security, all "real
person name" users have been changed to role based names such as
"Nurse, One" and all access codes except sys.admin has been
randomized. KIDS patches to allow TMG-CPRS and VistA-Config to work
have been applied as archived in the kids subdirectory.

Default ID's and passwords: System Linux id for an instance now follow
the VistA Standard Base spec of <branding>vista<instance> to avoid
conflict and allow multiple instances to run side by side. For example
worldvistaEHR is the default Linux id for rpm install with password
vista!123. The default VistA id is sys.admin vista!123.

Copyright (c) Astronaut, LLC 2009 http://astronautvista.com

Author: Ignacio Valdes <ival...@hal-pc.org>

Contributors of code, modules or other in Alphabetic order (Ommitted?
Don't want to appear? Let me know.)

Individuals:
Anthracite, Nancy -- Original install document, general knowledge.
Bodtke, Peter -- Testing, documentation.
Bhaskar, KS -- GT.M, Acculturation documentation, architecture, shell scripts.
Dorsey, Jon -- VistA Standard Base co-proposer.
Hagood, Eddie -- TMG-GUI-Config and fixes.
Habiel, Sam -- BMX functionality, GUI-Scheduling.
Landis, "Gus" -- VistA Standard Base co-proposer.
Noorden, Lars -- Mupip man page.
Meiling, Ben -- VistA Standard Base co-proposer.
Papillion, Anthony -- VistA Standard Base co-proposer.
Pardue, Andy -- OVID.
Self, Jim -- m2web
Tai, Jonathan -- GT.M knowledge, VistA Standard Base, rpm wizardry.
Timson, George -- Pointed out IHS fix for SSN problem.
Toppenberg, Kevin -- TMG-CPRS, TMG-VistA-Config, TMGIDE, general knowledge.
Trotter, Fred -- VistA Standard Base co-proposer.
Trotter, Rick -- Assistance with Launchpad.
Watson, Steve -- Testing, documentation, VistA Standard Base co-proposer.
Whitby, Butch -- Testing, , VistA Standard Base co-proposer, Misc.
Whitten, David -- Global expertise, debugging, architecture, IPv6 patch.

Corporations:
FIS -- GT.M
Medsphere Systems Corp -- OVID, Other.
M/Gateway Developments Ltd -- EWD
WorldVistA -- Processed FOIA VistA/VOE.

Government:
Indian Health Service -- BMX, scheduling GUI.
Veterans Affairs -- FOIA VistA.

Problems, comments, bugs: Post problems or issues to the Hardhats
group: http://groups.google.com/group/Hardhats or to
<ival...@hal-pc.org>

License: Installer: Affero GNU GPL version 3. No warranties expressed
or implied, use at your own risk. (see WorldVistA license below)

This installer has been tested on Fedora 10 and Ubuntu 9.04.

To install on rpm based systems, log in as root:

# yum install -y --nogpg astronaut-<version info>.rpm

Will install all depencencies and then the rpm or somewhat independently:

# rpm -i astronaut-wv-server-installer-XXX-0.X-X.i386.rpm

IT IS NORMAL TO SEE A BUNCH OF ERROR MESSAGES DURING COMPILATION.

To uninstall:

# rpm -e astronaut-wv-server-installer-XXXX-0.X-X

(NOTE: the absence of .i386.rpm for uninstalling)

To install on .deb, dpkg apt-get based systems, use sudo or sudo su to
log in as root:

# dpkg -i astronaut-wv-server-installer-XXXX_0.X-0.X.deb

IT IS NORMAL TO SEE A BUNCH OF ERROR MESSAGES DURING COMPILATION.

To uninstall:

# dpkg -r astronaut-wv-server-installer-XXXX_0.X-0.X.deb

You can over-ride the default installation parameters: location, port,
etc by creating a file called astro-defaults in /, (rpm apparently can
only find it in /). You should probably only try to change the default
vista_instance but all changeable defaults are:

instance_client_port=9260
vista_port_old_rpc=9210
vista_port_vistalink=8002

gtm_path="/opt/lsb-gtm/gtm"
export gtm_dist=$gtm_path
gtm_group="gtm"
#gtm_path="/opt/lsb-gtm/V5.3-004A_i686"
vista_instance="EHR"
vista_path="/opt/worldvista/$vista_instance"
VISTAUSER="worldvista$vista_instance"
VISTAUSER_PASSWD="vista!123"
VISTAGROUP="worldvista$vista_instance"
TEXTUSER="text$instance_client_port"
TEXTUSER_PASSWD="not#1sostrong"
astro_vers_release="0.7.5"
gtm_vers_release="V5.3-004A"

Alter the above parameters as desired before running the rpm and it
will override the above defaults.

Follow the next steps after the rpm install has run. This gets you to
the point of being able to login as a text or CPRS client.  The
pre-set Access Code is: sys.admin with Verify Code: vista!123. You
will have to re-set the verify code upon first login. Download the
Windows client installers which should all work out of the box with
this server. The pre-set Linux id is worldvistaEHR password is
vista!123 which you will also have to re-set on first login to the
Linux worldvistaEHR id. To start m2web simply start or restart apache.

Features:

1) Conforms to VistA Standard Base 0.9 RC 10.
2) Quick install.
3) Automatically sets BOX:VOLUME pair!
4) Creates a text<instance> id, automatically edits, compiles and
installs Bhaskar's runzu so that text<instance> runs with no shell and
no home directory.
5) Relatively smaller download size 155Mb complete package containing all files.
6) Controller software such as vistactl.sh start | stop | restart,
xinetd listener automatically configured and installed.
7) Automatic vista startup with journaling on server start and
graceful shutdown. Bhaskar's code.
8) Automatically opens CPRS port.
9) Has a backup solution (some assembly required).
10) Latest WorldVistA and gtm V53004A
11) Installs /opt/worldvista/EHR
12) Creates default vista id automatically.
13) Management commands: copy_this_vista_to.sh and
change_client_port.sh and uninstall_this_vista.sh
14) Requires two-factor deletion to really delete an instance. rpm -e
only removes symlinks to log files, text-client id and auto-start
routines. Requires explicit rm -Rf to really delete it all. rpm -i
--force will NOT over-write an existing instance.
15) Checks for file astro-defaults and overrides default install
parameters for different locations for the install.
16) Port handling files correspond to worldvista name spaces.
17) Pre-installs m2web. Turn off and on SELinux between boots by:
echo 0 >/selinux/enforce or echo 1 >/selinux/enforce
18) Refreshed: Pre-installs Kevin Toppenberg's debugger, see
http://vistapedia.net for activation.
19) Compatible with ewd-for-astronaut.
20) Pre-installs OVID.
21) Pre-installs Victory Programming Environment, see
http://vistapedia.net for activation.
22) MSC Fileman 1036.
23) TMG-CPRS support with all associated bug fixes.
24) TMG-GUI-Config now supports user management.
25) BMX RPC broker and necessary parts pre-loaded.
26) GUI-Scheduling components pre-loaded.
27) Man page for mupip command.

Caveats:

1) Beta installer.

                WorldVistA EHR /VOE 1.0 Release 6-2008

IMPORTANT FOR ALL PROVIDERS:

All drugs that the provider may need must be entered into the database
BEFORE THE PROVIDER PRESCIBES THEM from WorldVistA EHR.THE DRUG FILE
INCLUDED HAS NOT BEEN PREVIOUSLY RELEASED. IT IS ALWAYS IMPERATIVE THAT ANY AND ALL DRUG ORDERS AND PRESCRIPTIONS BE CAREFULLY REVIEWED BY THE PRESCRIBING PHYSICIAN AND DISPENSING PHARMACIST TO INSURE ACCURACY.   IF PROBLEMS ARE FOUND, PLEASE REPORT THEM HERE

        I...@WORLDVISTA.ORG
                OR
        http://trac.opensourcevista.net/worldvistaehr

Please see this link for information about entering new drugs and drug
doseages:

<http://worldvista.org/World_VistA_EHR/license-and-readme/ReadMe%20-%2...
ldVistA%20Pharmacy%20Drug%20File%202008-01-31.pdf>

Please look for additional information and updates about this release
here:

 <http://worldvista.org/World_VistA_EHR/license-and-readme>

All portions of this release that are modified from the original Freedom
of Informtion Act release provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs
carry the GPL license and are Copyright WorldVistA.  See this URL for the

full text of the license:

http://worldvista.org/World_VistA_EHR/license-and-readme/WorldVistA%2...
20GPL%20License.txt

YOU SHOULD CAREFULLY READ THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS BEFORE USING THIS PRODUCT.  DOWNLOADING OR USING ANY PART OF THE SOFTWARE AND DOCUMENTATION INDICATES THAT YOU ACCEPT THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS.  IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT, DO NOT PROCEED.

 A.  General Disclaimer.  THE WORLDVISTA-EHR (WV-EHR) SOFTWARE IS
PROVIDED TO RECIPIENT HEREUNDER "AS IS" AND ANY USE OF WV-EHR SOFTWARE BY REQUESTOR SHALL BE AT ITS OWN RISK.  TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, WORLDVISTA AND ITS CONTRACTORS, EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES WITH RESPECT TO WV-EHR SOFTWARE, EXPRESS, IMPLIED AND STATUTORY, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, TIMELINESS, NON INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD-PARTY RIGHTS, NON INTERFERENCE, AND ERROR FREE SERVICE. WORLDVISTA TAKES NO RESPONSIBILITY

FOR MONITORING OR REGULATING THE USE OR ACCURACY OF WV-EHR SOFTWARE. RECIPIENT ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT WORLDVISTA IS UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO VERIFY THE ACCURACY OF OR OTHERWISE UPDATE WV-EHR SOFTWARE OR ANY CONTENT CONTAINED THEREIN OR TO NOTIFY RECIPIENT OF ANY INACCURACIES THEREIN OR UPDATES THERETO THAT MAY COME TO THE ATTENTION OF OR BE DEVELOPED BY WORLDVISTA. WV-EHR MAY BE UPDATED PERIODICALLY, AND IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE RECIPIENT TO OBTAIN UPDATED VERSIONS OF THE WV-EHR RELEASE AS REQUIRED. WORLDVISTA BEARS NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR PROVIDING UPDATES TO RECIPIENTS. PASSWORD IS asdTYU

 B.  LIMITATION OF LIABILITY.  TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY

APPLICABLE LAW, NEITHER WORLDVISTA NOR ANY OF ITS EMPLOYEES, AGENTS OR CONTRACTORS SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL,

CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION DAMAGES FOR LOST PROFITS OR REVENUES, GOODWILL, WORK STOPPAGE, SECURITY BREACHES,  VIRUSES, COMPUTER FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES OR COMMERCIAL DAMAGES, EVEN IF ANY OF SUCH PARTIES IS ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH LOSSES, ARISING UNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT, COMPLIANCE EFFECTIVENESS STUDY TOOLS, THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SAME, OR ANY OTHER SUBJECT MATTER HEREOF. IN ADDITION, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, NEITHER WORLDVISTA NOR ANY OF

ITS EMPLOYEES, AGENTS OR CONTRACTORS SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR

DAMAGE SUFFERED BY RECIPIENT WHICH ARISES OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED BY RECIPIENT VIA OR IN CONNECTION WITH WV-EHR SOFTWARE.