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>
Shutdown and reboot the appliance
 | All applications and virtuals machines must be brought-down properly before shutting down or rebooting the appliance. Failure to do so may result in irreparable damage to the databases and loss of historical data. |
Stage 1 - shutdown the application
Stage 2 - shutdown the virtual machine
Stage 3 - shutdown or reboot the appliance
For your convienience, a script is provided that will take care of these three stages. To execute this script, you must first connect to PMA and login as Administrator.
Once authenticated, run the following command: