PMA-45 and VPMA-45 quick start guide

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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.

 

Solution

VPMA-45 Properties

Small (100GB data disk)

 

VPM45100GBProperties.png
VPM45100GBProperties.png

 

Medium (1TB data disk)

 

Access

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
  • 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 account
  • User comcert is reserved for COMCERT staff members
  • The application specific user has administator rights and can sudo to root, so this is the user you should use
# ssh -l Administrator <IPaddress(V)PMA-45>

 

Reboot and halt

 

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:

$ sudo su -
# shutdown -r now

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

To halt:

$ sudo su - 
# shutdown -h now

 

VMware tools

VMware tools are not installed on the VPMA-45.