Compression and Axeda Gateway, Connector, and Agent Embedded Agents

Important! If you create a compressed archive for deployment to any of these Axeda Agents, make sure that you use the GNU tar utility. Otherwise, the Agent cannot extract the files from the archive. The GNU tar utility ships with Linux and is also available in Cygwin for Windows (http://www.cygwin.com). For information about the GNU tar utility refer to http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/.

For Download instructions or actions

This file is a .tar.gz archive; unpack it in the given directory after downloading:

For Axeda Gateway, Axeda Connector, and Axeda Agent Embedded Agents, this option is very useful if you have the tar and gzip utilities available to archive and compress a group of files to send to an asset. For example, the files to upgrade an Axeda Gateway or Connector Agent are typically shipped as a tar.gz archive. After receiving the package and this instruction, the Agent extracts the files from this archive to perform the upgrade. You need to include an instruction for the Agent to restart after it unpacks the upgrade archive.

Do not compress this file before downloading (this setting may be overridden based on file size):

For Axeda Gateway, Axeda Connector, and Agent Embedded, select this option if you know the file is already compressed. Due to a limitation in tar format, if the file is equal to or larger than 8GB in size, you must select this option. Note that if you select the preceding option (this file is a .tar.gz archive), you cannot select this option.

Note: If you want to download multiple files, you can use tar to archive them and create a .gz file to download. After downloading and unpacking the file, the original .gz archive is deleted from the asset.

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For Upload instructions or actions

Do not apply compression before uploading

(this setting may be overridden based on file size). In addition, if you select this option, only one file may be uploaded.

For Axeda Gateway, Connector, and Agent Embedded Agents, select this option if the file is already compressed. Due to a limitation in tar format, you must select this option if the file is equal to or larger than 8GB in size, or results may be unpredictable. You cannot add any other files to this instruction if you disable compression for the first file. Platform administrators can configure a file size at which compression is disabled automatically; by default this file size is 2GB.

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