About the Orchid Fusion VMS Installation Guide

The Orchid Fusion VMS Installation Guide is designed for IPConfigure dealers, integrators, or system administrators who are tasked with software installation. In addition to installation instructions, this guide provides assistance with editing configuration files, working with the Orchid Fusion VMS services, and uninstalling the Orchid Fusion VMS software.

This guide covers Orchid Fusion VMS installation and configuration topics for the following operating systems:

• Windows
• Ubuntu 16.04 to 22.04 (LTS versions) (Refer to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and 8, 64-bit (Refer to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7)
• CentOS 7 and 8 (Refer to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7)
• Debian Jessie (Refer to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS)
• Raspbian Jessie (Refer to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS)

This guide also includes general, helpful information in the Installation Support Topics section.

*Downgrading the Orchid Fusion VMS software is not supported.

*As of version 21.9, Orchid Fusion VMS no longer provides installers for Ubuntu 14.04.

*You may notice that there are very few mentions of Orchid Hybrid VMS in this guide (even though the Orchid Fusion VMS User Guide and Admin Guide cover both Fusion and Hybrid). Since Orchid Hybrid VMS is a managed system, IPConfigure will perform the Hybrid installation and the configuration that is required for some special features.

What’s New in Version 24.6.1

Here is the most notable change in Orchid Fusion/Hybrid VMS that relates to the behind-the-scenes installation and configuration.

• Orchid Fusion/Hybrid Permission Groups now support multiple SAML attributes for assigning user privileges. For systems that were configured for SAML in earlier versions, please be aware of the following:
  • The property saml.common.setting.domain is now obsolete. After migration, the property will be removed from the properties file.
  • All external users will be logged out upon upgrade.
  • Modifying the configured attributes in the properties file will log out all related SAML users on restart.

For all of the details on new features and bug fixes, please refer to the release notes on the IPConfigure web site.