Specifying Appliance Settings

After the initial HTTPS connection to the Infoblox appliance, you see the Setup Wizard, which guides you through the basic deployment of the appliance on the network. Infoblox-4030 appliances are deployed in one of two possible ways:

• As a single appliance as part of an Infoblox Grid, with a Grid license;
• Without a Grid license and running independently.

A Grid is a group of two or more Infoblox appliances that share sections of a common, distributed, built-in database and which you configure and monitor through a single, secure point of access — the Grid Master. To set up a Grid, you must configure a Grid Master and at least one Grid member. For information about how to set up a Grid, refer to the Infoblox NIOS Administrator Guide.
The following instructions guide you through the wizard and include worksheets where you can note your appliance and network settings. After you complete the wizard, you can set additional operational parameters and configure the appliance to provide services, such as DNS. For detailed instructions on configuring the appliance, refer to the Infoblox NIOS Administrator Guide.

1. Open an Internet browser window and enter https://<IP address or hostname of the NIOS appliance>.
2. Accept the certificate when prompted.
   A certificate warning appears during the login process. This is normal because the NIOS appliance generates a self-signed certificate when it first starts, and your browser does not have a trusted CA certificate or a cached NIOS appliance server certificate (saved from an earlier connection) to authenticate the Trinzic appliance certificate. Also, the hostname in the default certificate is www.infoblox.com, which is unlikely to match the hostname of your NIOS appliance. Consequently, messages appear warning that the certificate is not from a trusted certifying authority and that the hostname on the certificate is either invalid or does not match the name of the site that sent the certificate. Either accept the certificate just for this session or save it to the certificate store of your browser.
   To eliminate the certificate warning, generate a new self-signed certificate or import a third-party certificate with a common name that matches the FQDN (fully-qualified domain name) of the appliance. This is a very simple process. For more information about certificates, refer to the NIOS Administrator Guide.
3. Log in using the default user name and password admin and infoblox.

Note: User names and passwords are case-sensitive.

4. Read the Infoblox End-User License Agreement and click I Accept to proceed if you agree with the terms and conditions.

5. The Setup Wizard opens, and you can enter basic network and deployment settings.

Determine how you want to deploy the appliance, and then use the following worksheets to note the network settings that you want to enter on the wizard screens.

Use the following worksheet when configuring a single independent appliance or Grid member:

On the last screen of the wizard, click Finish. The Infoblox GUI application restarts.