Before deploying your BloxOne B1-105 appliance, consider the following when setting up your B1-105 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 On-Prem Hosts.
When you purchase your BloxOne B1-105 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 B1-105 appliance:
The power cable that comes with the appliance
An Ethernet cable using the LAN2 port on the front of the appliance
Power up the appliance by pressing the power button and releasing it quickly. If your network has DHCP service available, your B1-105 appliance will automatically receive an IP address and BloxOne DDI can detect the appliance and its IP address.
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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 B1-105 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 B1-105 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 http://192.168.1.2 or http://<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.
Once you have set up the B1-105 appliance successfully, you will not be able to access the bootstrap interface again. If you need to re-configure the appliance, you must first reset the appliance to the factory default. For information, see /wiki/spaces/B1105InsatllGuide/pages/8945708.
In addition, if you have not configured any NTP server or local DNS resolver, the appliance uses the Ubuntu NTP server (ntp.ubuntu.org or ubuntu.pool.ntp.org) and BloxOne DDI DNS (IP: 52.119.40.100). The communication to these services does not use the HTTPS proxy, and you must ensure that the NTP port (UDP 123) and the DNS port (TCP/UDP 53) are opened on your firewall