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== Introduction ==
== Introduction ==


PMA-45 or VPMA-45 is the notation used whenever a Performance Management Appliance is built respectively on top of customer provided hardware or as a virtual machine.
VPMA is COMCERT's Virtual Performance Management Appliance.  VPMA has been tested with VMware, KVM and Hyper-V.


COMCERT is developing hardware based appliances too: the PMA-65 and PMA-85. The OS and other software structures are identical among all our appliances
VPMA-45 is based on a hardened distribution of CentOS 7 Linux Operating System.


Both PMA-45 and VPMA-45 are built on a hardened distribution of CentOS 7 64-bit Linux Operating System.
VPMA-48 is based on a hardened distribution of Oracle Linux 8 Operating System.
 
VPMA-45 has been tested on ESXi version 5.5 and above.


 
 
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== Solution ==
== Solution ==


=== VPMA-45 Properties ===
=== Principal Virtual Machine Properties ===


==== Small (100GB data disk) ====
*8 CPU
*64GB RAM
*HD1 (system) 65GB
*HD2 (data) 500GB


 
(these values are inspired by the minimum system requirements of NETSCOUT nGeniusONE Standalone Server - other applications may require smaller or bigger CPU and memory sizes)
 
[[File:VPM45100GBProperties.png|border|center|400px|VPM45100GBProperties.png]]


 
 


==== Medium (1TB data disk) ====
=== Console Access (CLI) ===


 
The appliance is accessible through Secure Shell (SSH) using a terminal emulator of your choice. The appliance ships with three predefined user accounts.


=== Access ===
<span style="background-color:#FFFF00">Names and passwords are case sensitive</span>.


The appliance is accessible through SSH using a terminal emulator like MobaXterm or Putty. The appliance ships with three predefined user accounts, '''root''', '''comcert''',&nbsp;and a third one dat depnds on the application that is installed on the appliance.
*root  
*comcert  
*Administrator


If that application is for example nGeniusONE Server, this user would be called '''Administrator'''.
Customers are advised to use the Administrator account.&nbsp; This account has sudo priviledges.
 
*User root can only access the appliance via CLI. &nbsp;SSH is disabled for that&nbsp;account  
*User comcert is reserved&nbsp;for COMCERT staff members
*The application specific user has administror rights and can assume 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 ===
=== Reboot and halt ===


{{#invoke:Message box|ambox |type=warning|text=ALWAYS shutdown the appliance properly. Failure to do so may result in irreparable damage to the database and consequently in data loss.}}
<span style="background-color:#FFFF00;">Before rebooting or halting the VPMA, stop all running services.&nbsp; The procedure to stop depends on what&nbsp;the VPMA is used for.</span>
 
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Rebooting or halting the appliance will also stop the processes running on the appliance, so there is no need to stop them separately.


To reboot:
To reboot:
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=== VMware tools ===
=== Virtual tools ===


VMware tools are not installed on the VPMA-45.
Virtual tools such as VMware tools are not installed on the VPMA&nbsp; as the version will depend on the hypervisor version.&nbsp; Customers are encouraged to install these tools as required by their virtual environment.


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=== Installing third party software ===
 
<span style="background-color:#FFFF00;">Because running thirt party software may interfere with pre-installed services, contact COMCERT Support prior to installation</span>.&nbsp; Warrany is void if you fail to do so.
 
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=== OS Upgrade/update ===
 
It is safe to update the Loperation system of the VPMA-45 and VPMA-48 for as long as the major version remains respectivily Centos 7 and&nbsp;Linux 8.
 
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Latest revision as of 19:45, 14 June 2023

Introduction

VPMA is COMCERT's Virtual Performance Management Appliance.  VPMA has been tested with VMware, KVM and Hyper-V.

VPMA-45 is based on a hardened distribution of CentOS 7 Linux Operating System.

VPMA-48 is based on a hardened distribution of Oracle Linux 8 Operating System.

 

Solution

Principal Virtual Machine Properties

  • 8 CPU
  • 64GB RAM
  • HD1 (system) 65GB
  • HD2 (data) 500GB

(these values are inspired by the minimum system requirements of NETSCOUT nGeniusONE Standalone Server - other applications may require smaller or bigger CPU and memory sizes)

 

Console Access (CLI)

The appliance is accessible through Secure Shell (SSH) using a terminal emulator of your choice. The appliance ships with three predefined user accounts.

Names and passwords are case sensitive.

  • root
  • comcert
  • Administrator

Customers are advised to use the Administrator account.  This account has sudo priviledges.

 

Reboot and halt

Before rebooting or halting the VPMA, stop all running services.  The procedure to stop depends on what the VPMA is used for.

To reboot: 

$ sudo su -
# shutdown -r now

It will take several minutes before the application is available again.

To halt: 

$ sudo su - 
# shutdown -h now

 

Virtual tools

Virtual tools such as VMware tools are not installed on the VPMA  as the version will depend on the hypervisor version.  Customers are encouraged to install these tools as required by their virtual environment.

 

Installing third party software

Because running thirt party software may interfere with pre-installed services, contact COMCERT Support prior to installation.  Warrany is void if you fail to do so.

 

OS Upgrade/update

It is safe to update the Loperation system of the VPMA-45 and VPMA-48 for as long as the major version remains respectivily Centos 7 and Linux 8.

 

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