Installing Operations Center Platforms

To install and configure an Operations Center, complete the following steps:

An Operations Center deployment consists of a controller appliance and one or more collector appliances. The Controller aggregates data and analyzes results from the collectors to provide a consolidated view of the enterprise network within one user interface, which is hosted by the controller.

Communication between the Controller and its associated Collectors takes place over a set of Secure Sockets Layer Virtual Private Networks (SSL VPN) across their designated management network. You monitor Operations Center VPN tunnels and basic collector communication from the Settings icon > Setup > Tunnels and Collectors page. Each VPN tunnel between the Operations Center and the associated Collectors appear in the list.

You begin installing an Operations Center platform by installing and configuring its Operations Center Controller, followed by installing and configuring its Collector appliances, whether physical or virtual.

After physically installing the Collector appliances, or deploying the virtual machines to their respective hosts, activating their instances under the hypervisor and installing their Infoblox NetMRI licenses, you need to run a brief series of NetMRI Admin Shell (CLI) commands to bring up each instance.

After finishing the basic Operations Center installation, you execute one of two different options:

Configure the controller to use factory defaults
For more information, see Configuring the Operations Center Controller with Factory Defaults.

Configure the controller to use data imported from an existing NetMRI appliance
For more information, see Importing Data From a Reference NetMRI Instance.