Software Installation

If you are already running the latest version of the DRAGEN software and hardware, you can skip ahead to Run the Self Test.

You can query the current version of software and hardware with the following command:

dragen_info -b

You can query only the software version with the following command:

dragen --version

To install a new version of software or hardware, first download the package from the DRAGEN Bio-IT Platform support pages on the Illumina website to your DRAGEN server. The preferred installation method is to use the self-extracting .run file, as follows:

sudo sh dragen-3.3.7.el7.x86_64.run

During installation, if you are prompted to switch to a new hardware version, enter ‘y’. It is important that the hardware upgrade process is not interrupted. When it is complete, you must halt and power cycle the server. A reboot command does not update the hardware version. You must use the following halt command to power the server off and on:

sudo ipmitool chassis power cycle

DRAGEN periodically checks for license renewal by communicating with the license server at lus.edicogenome.com. For servers that are behind a firewall, a proxy can be configured by the network administrator in /etc/environment. For example:

http_proxy="http://proxy.customer.com:80/"
https_proxy="https://proxy.customer.com:80/"
ftp_proxy="http://proxy.customer.com:80/"
rsync_proxy="http://proxy.customer.com:80/"
no_proxy="localhost,127.0.0.1,localaddress,.localdomain.com,.customer.com"