4th Step: Installing Operations Center Collectors

Scan port configurations reside on each Collector appliance. The Operations Center Controller does no discovery or device management of its own; when you run configure server on the controller, you do not configure the LAN1 port. The following procedure applies only to Collector appliances.

To begin setting up the Collector, you will need the following information 

• The Management IP address of the appliance (this IP will be assigned to the MGMT port of the appliance)
• The customer name for the network to which the appliance will initially connect and discover
• The Default Gateway for the management port
• The local domain name for the server network
• Time zone and region information
• DNS Server IP (and secondary DNS server IP if necessary)

There are two possibilities for the basic IP configuration of each Collector:

• Static IP addressing using the configure server command
• The appliance uses DHCP, and the default values appear when you run the configure server command.

In this procedure, we assume the use of a static IP address on the management network for each Collector.

1. Use a terminal program to connect to the management IP address of the Collector appliance.
2. Log in using the default admin/admin username/password account.
3. At the administrative shell command prompt, enter configure server and press Enter.
4. Complete the following:

Note: If your Operations Center Collectors are configured through DHCP, default values from that service will appear here. Do not override DHCP settings while using the configure server command. In this procedure, we assume the use of a static IP address on the management network for each Collector.

5. At the command prompt of the administrative shell, enter configure server and press Enter.

6. Press Y to respond Yes to begin system setup:

Do you want to start system setup now? (y/n) [n]: y

Default values, when available, are given within [].

You may clear defaults by typing a SPACE and pressing Enter.

+++ Configuring Network Identification Settings

7. Enter the new Database Name and press Enter.

Database Name is a descriptive name for this deployment. It is used in reports titles, headers, etc.
Recommended: Begin name with uppercase letter.

Database Name []: Corp100_west

8. Enter the new Server Name and press Enter.

The Server Name identifies this system in SNMP and HTTPS server certificates.
The installed HTTPS certificate contains the following subject:

subject= /CN=NetworkAutomation-2210201208100028/O=NetMRI

Server Name []: corp100_187

9. For the first-time installation, you can choose to generate a new HTTPS certificate.
Do you want to generate a new HTTPS Certificate? (y/n) [n]: y
10. Enter the local domain name in which the appliance resides. This value is used for truncating device names in NetMRI data sets throughout the system.
Domain Name 1 (e.g., example.com) []: corp100.local
Domain Name 2 (optional) []:
11. Enter the time server IP address if one is available:
Time Server [us.pool.ntp.org]:
12. Enter the time zone region by typing in the suggested numeric value from the list:
Time Zone Regions
Choose your local region.

Time Zone Regions
Choose your local region.

Enter choice (0-47) [0]: 45

13. Enter the time zone location by typing in the suggested numeric value from the list:

Choose a location within your time zone.

Enter choice (0-11) [0]: 10

You continue by configuring the management port settings. You define the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and subnet masks the default gateway IP address for the management port:

You must configure an IPv4 or IPv6 address/mask on the management port.

NetMRI can perform analysis from the management port or a separate scan port.

IPv4 Address (optional) []: 10.120.32.181

IPv4 Subnet Mask (optional) []: 255.255.255.0

IPv6 Address (optional):

IPv6 Prefix (optional):

IPv4 Default Gateway (optional) []: 10.120.32.1

IPv6 Default Gateway (optional) []:

Note: When registering a Collector to the OC, make sure that they both are in the same time zone. Use the configure server command to set the Collector time zone to match the OC (US/Eastern). Changing the time zone requires a system reboot.

14. Enter Y (yes) to perform the step for configuring the LAN1 port on the collector appliance:

Do you want to configure the Scan Port? (y/n) [n]: y

You must configure an IPv4 or IPv6 address/mask on the scan port.

IP Address (optional) []: 10.0.60.181

Subnet Mask (optional) [] 255.255.255.0 :

IPv6 Address (optional):

IPv6 Prefix (optional):

You must provide either an IPv4 gateway, an IPv6 gateway, or both.

IPv4 Default Gateway (optional) [] 10.0.60.1 :

IPv6 Default Gateway (optional) []:

15. Enter the address(es) of the primary and secondary DNS server, if required:

DNS Servers are used to map hostnames to IP addresses.

You may enter up to 2 name servers below.

DNS Server 1 (IP) []: 172.23.16.21

DNS Server 2 (optional) []:

16. The setup utility lists the configuration settings and queries whether you wish to edit them.

Edit these settings? (y/n) [n]:

17. The setup utility requests that you commit your settings. Enter to accept the Y (yes) default.

Configure the system with these settings? (y/n) [y]:

Configuring system ...

+++ Validating Interfaces ...

+++++ eth0 ... OK

+++++ eth1 ... OK

The Collector appliance restarts.

You continue by installing the license for each Collector appliance. Continue to the next topic, 5th Step: Installing the Operations Center Collector Licenses.