PMA-65 and PMA-85 quick start guide
Introduction
All Performance Management Appliances (PMA) are based on a hardened versions on CentOS 7 64-bit Linux Operating System.
Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is used as virtualization platform.
Access to the appliance
 | We recommend using MobaXterm to access the appliance. Download MobaXterm at: http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/download.html |
PMA is accessible through ssh using your favorite terminal emulator. The appliance ships with two user accounts, Administrator and comcert. User Administrartor has been created to allow the end-user to safely shut down and reboot the appliance. User comcert is reserved for COMCERT support engineers.
# ssh -l Administrator <IPaddressPMA-65>
Access to the virtual machines
It is recommeded to verify the
Shutdown and reboot the appliance
 | Before rebooting or halting the appliance the virtual machines should be brought down properly. Failure to do so may result in irreparable damage to the database and consquently in data loss. |
Step 1 - shutdown the appliactions
Step 2 - shutdown the virtual machines
Step 3 - verify the status of the virtual machines
Step 4 - shutdown or reboot the appliance