PMA-45 and VPMA-45 quick start guide
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.
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
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)
Medium (1TB data disk)
Access
The appliance is accessible through SSH using a terminal emulator like MobaXterm or Putty. The appliance ships with three predefined user accounts, root, comcert, and a third one dat depnds on the application that is installed on the appliance.
If that application is for example nGeniusONE Server, this user would be called 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 administror rights and can assume root, so this is the user you should use
# ssh -l Administrator <IPaddress(V)PMA-45>
Reboot and halt
 | ALWAYS shutdown the appliance properly. Failure to do so may result in irreparable damage to the database and consequently in data loss. |
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.