Installing the B1-212 Appliance

Before deploying your BloxOne B1-212 appliance, consider the following when setting up your B1-212 appliance:

Ensure that review the connectivity and service requirements for the deployment.
If you plan to configure the on-prem appliance using a static IP, obtain the IP address, subnet mask, gateway, and other DNS information.
For more deployment information, see Best Practices for Deploying Hosts.

When you purchase your BloxOne B1-212 appliance from Infoblox, the appliance is pre-provisioned and automatically appears on the list of on-prem hosts in the Cloud Services Portal. At this stage, the appliance is in a Pending state.

To activate the host connection to Cloud Services Portal, complete the following:

Connect the following to your B1-212 appliance:
1. The power cable that comes with the appliance.
2. An Ethernet cable using the GE 1 port at the back of the appliance. (You must use the GE 1 port to connect the appliance in the initial setup. Once the appliance is up and running, you can use all GE1, GE2, GE3, GE4, GE5, GE6, SFP1 and SFP ports in your configuration.)
  Note: On the Cloud Services Portal, the GE 1 port appears as en01, GE 2 as en02, GE 3 as en03, GE 4 as en04, GE 5 as en05, GE 6 as en06, SFP1 as en07 and SFP2 as en08.
Power up the appliance by pressing the power button and releasing it quickly. If your network has DHCP service available, your B1-212 appliance will automatically receive an IP address and BloxOne DDI can detect the appliance and its IP address.
Note: Once you power up the appliance, the appliance automatically enters the Awaiting Approval state. You can now log in to the Cloud Services Portal to approve or deny the host connection.
If your network does not have DHCP servers available, the appliance will fall back to the default IP address 192.168.1.2. Configure the B1-212 appliance through an internet browser. To do so, the management PC or workstation on which you open the browser must have an IP address in the same subnet as the B1-212 appliance (for example, use 192.168.1.0/24 if your network does not have a DHCP server).
Open the internet browser on the management PC or workstation and enter https://192.168.1.2 or https://<allocated_IP> if the IP address was allocated via the DHCP server in your network.
The bootstrap interface appears in the browser. Based on whether you are using DHCP or a static IP, select the respective Network Mode, and then enter the required IP address information.
Click Apply Changes on the bootstrap UI to submit the configuration changes.

Notes

When connecting a hardware appliance to the Cloud Services Portal, ensure that you DO NOT enter the join token in the Device UI. Otherwise, the appliance will lose connectivity to the Cloud Service Portal when the host certificate expires. Instead, use the serial number of the appliance to connect to the Cloud Service Portal.

After you have set up the appliance successfully, you will not be able to access the Device UI again unless connection issues occur with the appliance, in which case you can use the Device UI to perform some troubleshooting tasks for the appliance. For more information, see Troubleshooting Hosts.

If you need to re-configure the appliance, you must first reset it to the factory default, see Resetting the B1-212 . In addition, if you have not configured any NTP server or local DNS resolver, the appliance will use the Ubuntu NTP server (ntp.ubuntu.org or ubuntu.pool.ntp.org) and BloxOne DDI DNS (IP: 52.119.40.100 or 103.80.5.100). Because these services do not communicate via an HTTPS proxy, you must ensure that the NTP port (UDP 123) and the DNS port (TCP/UDP 53) are open on your firewall.