When you make the initial HTTPS connection to the Infoblox appliance, you see the Setup Wizard, which guides you through the basic deployment of the appliance on your network.
You can deploy PT-2200 appliances individually or as a member of an Infoblox Grid. A single appliance without a Grid license runs independently from a grid. 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. Grid setup and setup of a Grid Master is beyond the scope of this document.
The following instructions guide you through the setup wizard for the PT-2200 and include worksheets to note your appliance and network settings. After you complete the wizard, you can set additional operational parameters and configure the appliance to provide services supported by the appliance, specifically DNS threat protection. For detailed instructions on configuring the appliance, refer to the NIOS Administrator Guide.

1. Open an Internet browser window and enter https://<IP address or hostname of your appliance>.
2. Accept the certificate when prompted.

A certificate warning appears during the login process. This is normal because the appliance generates a self-signed certificate when it first starts, and your browser does not have a trusted CA certificate or a cached appliance server certificate (saved from an earlier connection) to authenticate the appliance certificate. Also, the hostname in the default certificate is[ www.infoblox.com,|http://www.infoblox.com/] which is unlikely to match the hostname of your 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 straightforward process. For information about certificates, refer to the NIOS Administrator Guide.

1. Log in using the default user name and password admin and infoblox.
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   Note: User names and passwords are case-sensitive.
   
   
   
3. Read the Infoblox End-User License Agreement and click I Accept to proceed.
4. 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:

Settings Enter your information here

Grid Name
Shared Secret Host Name Grid Master's IP Address
LAN1 Port IP Address and Netmask Gateway IP Address
*Port Settings

**Admin Password

**Local Date, Time, and Time Zone or
NTP Server IP Address

• For grid member
  • For an independent appliance
    On the last screen of the wizard, click Finish. The Infoblox GUI application restarts.