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== Introduction ==

PMA-45 and VPMA-45 are Performance Management Appliances built respectively on top of customer provided hardware or virtual machine.

Both PMA-45 and VPMA-45 are built on a hardened distribution of CentOS 7 64-bit Linux Operating System.

VPMA-45 has been tested on ESXi version 5.5 and above.

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== Solution ==

=== VPMA-45 Properties ===

==== Small (100GB data disk) ====

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[[File:VPM45100GBProperties.png|border|center|400px|VPM45100GBProperties.png]]

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==== Medium (1TB data disk) ====

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=== Access ===

The appliance is accessible through Secure Shell (SSH) using a terminal emulator of your choice. The appliance ships with three predefined user accounts.<span style="background-color:#FFFF00">Names and passwords are case sensitive</span>.

*root 
*comcert 
*third one depending on the applications 

For example, if the application is nGeniusONE Server, this user would be Administrator.

*User root can only access the appliance via CLI. SSH is disabled for that&nbsp;account 
*User comcert is reserved&nbsp;for COMCERT staff members 
*The application specific user has administator rights and can sudo to root, so this is the user you should use 
<pre># ssh -l Administrator <IPaddress(V)PMA-45></pre>

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=== Reboot and halt ===

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{{#invoke:Message box|ambox |type=warning|text=Stop the application(s) on the applicance before a stop or reboot. Failure to do so may result in irreparable damage to the database and result in data loss.}}

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To reboot:
<pre>$ sudo su -
# shutdown -r now
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It will take several minutes before the application is available again.

To halt:
<pre>$ sudo su - 
# shutdown -h now
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=== VMware tools ===

VMware tools are not installed on the VPMA-45.