Part 4 Deploying the Operations Center
- Viktoryia Varapayeva (Deactivated)
This chapter provides requirements for administrators and engineers planning to install the NetMRI Operations Center distributed network analysis environment. It outlines the prerequisites to successfully prepare a NetMRI Operations Center hardware appliance to act as the central node in the OC environment; specify and plan the VMware infrastructure for a NetMRI installation, and to install and configure NetMRI virtual appliance VMs (virtual machines) as data collectors in the OC environment.
Because VMware installation parameters and hardware configurations vary by organization, this document provides guidance for configurations that have worked well for NetMRI installations and outlines some general best practices for VMware installations.
This documentation is intended for:
- Customers who want to run NetMRI in a VMware Infrastructure, whether as a standalone or as part of an Operations Center deployment.
- Administrators and engineers responsible for the installation and administration of the NetMRI virtual appliance in a VMware Infrastructure.
Note
In the event of a power outage, the hardware on which NetMRI runs should be supported by an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) to avoid data corruption problems.
The Operations Center deployment includes the following:
- Operations Center Requirements
- Recommended Best Practices
- Configuring the NetMRI Appliance for IPv6
- Deploying Automatic Failover for New Appliances
- Migrating Existing Systems as Failover Pairs
- Benchmarking the VMware Infrastructure
- Installing NetMRI Operations Center
- Installing the Operations Center Software
- Running the Setup Wizard
- Additional Considerations
- Discovery Import Formats
- Credential Import Format
- Configuring NetMRI Collectors
- Installing NetMRI Virtual Appliances (for Collectors)
- Configuring and Registering NetMRI Collectors