Centara
  • Introduction to Centara
  • Getting started with Centara
    • Software and hardware requirements
    • getCentara.exe
    • Install Centara Server
    • Centara Configuration
      • RDM overview
      • Create organization structure
      • General settings
      • Layouts and visual components
        • Creating layouts
        • Assigning layouts in configuration
        • Populating layouts with components
        • Applying functionalty to buttons
        • UI component reference
      • Hardware
        • OPOS installation
          • Epson OPOS
        • Centara server configuration
      • POS Receipts
        • Receipt parts
        • Receipt Directives
          • Formatting directives
          • General directives
          • Hospitality directives
          • Fiscal Printers directives
          • Tender slip directives
        • Receipt logo
        • Receipt template
          • Special formatting
      • POS operators and permissions
        • Create operators and permissions
      • Tenders
      • Other configuration
        • Customer configuration
        • Cash management
          • Setting up cash management
          • Balance report
        • Suspend / retrieve
        • Search
          • Applying customer search
          • Applying product search
            • Style search
            • Stock search
          • Applying transaction search
        • Custom settings
    • Install Centara POS
      • Alternative database configurations
      • Centara Licensing
    • Features
      • Conditional sub-layouts
      • Out of stock warning
  • User guides
    • POS User Guide
      • Operator sign on / off
      • Layouts
      • Selling products
      • Paying for products
      • Voiding
      • Customers
      • Suspend / retrieve
      • Cash management
    • Discount Offer module
      • Getting started
      • Basic discounts
      • Package deals
      • Seasonal offers
      • Miscellaneous
      • Working with the filters
      • Making changes to the discounts
      • Time restrictions
      • Selectors
      • Layered discounts
      • Audit Log
      • Glossary of Terms
    • Loyalty system
      • System overview
      • Creating organization stucture
      • Working with loyalty data
        • General handling
          • Adding loyalty data
        • Giftcards
          • Adding gift card data
        • Store credit
          • Instrument handling
        • Coupons
          • How to setup alphanumeric offer coupon
      • Connecting Centara to Loyalty
      • View loyalty data on POS
      • Loyalty operations
    • Snippet manager
  • Integrations
    • Sentry.io
    • Acumatica
      • Acumatica installation
      • Acumatica Connector
        • Customer creation
        • Cashier Groups
        • Avalara Configuration
        • Common configuration errors
        • General inquiries
  • Development
    • APIs
      • External orders
      • Item API
      • Loyalty API
        • Gift cards
        • Loyalty cards
        • Store credit
    • GraphQL
    • XVal
      • XVal List comprehensions
      • XVal operators
      • XVal examples
      • XVal usage
      • XVal testing
  • References
    • Data processes
      • XVal Library
      • Data process examples
    • POS macros
  • FAQ
    • Centara Server
      • Installation
      • Maintenance
    • Centara POS
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  1. Getting started with Centara

getCentara.exe

This page documents the command line tool getCentara which is the program that downloads Centara.

getCentara.exe is used to pull new server releases of Centara. Other Centara components are managed from within Centara Server under Admin -> Server information -> getCentara

Command line syntax

You can always get the command line syntax of getCentara by invoking it without any parameters.

c:>getCentara.exe
Usage:
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GetCentara server <version> <site>
GetCentara versions
GetCentara clearCache
GetCentara update
GetCentara help

[deprecated] GetCentara pos <version> <site>
[deprecated] GetCentara components <version>
[deprecated] GetCentara download <version> <component> <site>

The final three are older, deprecated functionality, that has since been moved into the Centara Server. The other options are documented below.

getCentara versions

Normally this is the first command used. It will communicate with http://get.centara.com and get a list of available versions. This list can be long, depending on our internal archiving of older versions, as well as our development schedule.

Care should be taken when updating a server, and in fact no server should be updated without clear indication from Centara support as to the appropriate version to upgrade to.

The reason for the above statement is that the current version of getCentara does not differentiate between public releases and ad-hoc releases of Centara (such as beta releases, hotfixes, or work-in-progress releases).

getCentara server <version> site

This will pull a version (from the versions list) for the specified site.

getCentara will pull the specified version into the current folder in a subfolder with the name site\CentaraServer

getCentara clearCache

getCentara maintains a local cache of retrieved versions of Centara. This is useful in hosting scenarios where multiple customers are running Centara instances on the same server.

getCentara update

When a new version is available, a message will display to that affect.

A newer version of GetCentara is available.
  New version is 1.3.3.3, this version is 1.3.3.2
  Run [GetCentara update] to update

Updating by running the command shown:

GetCentara version 1.3.3.2

Connecting
Downloading getCentara
File size: 770 KB
GetCentara.exe has been updated to version 1.3.3.3
Spawning an update via bat file

The last step (last line above) is to ensure that the update can be done in place, and that any operating system locks have been released.

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The cache is maintained in one the Special Folders in Windows () the location of which can differ between systems. When the command is run it displays the cacheFolder location as well as the results of the operation.

SpecialFolder.ApplicationData