Veritas Access Appliance 8.4 Initial Configuration Guide
- Getting to know the Access Appliance
- Preparing to configure the appliance
- Configuring the appliance for the first time
- Getting started with the Veritas Access GUI
- Network connection management
- Resetting the appliance to factory settings
- Appliance security
- About Access Appliance security
- About Access appliance user account privileges
- About forced password changes
- Changing the Maintenance user account password
- About the Access Appliance intrusion detection system
- About the Access Appliance intrusion prevention system
- About Access appliance operating system security
- About data security on the Access appliance
- About data integrity on the Access appliance
- Recommended IPMI settings on the Access appliance
Configuring the IPMI port on an appliance node
To configure the IPMI port using the Access Appliance shell menu
- To configure the IPMI remotely over the network, use SSH to connect to the appliance node management IP on eth0.
To configure the IPMI locally, connect the following components to the appropriate ports on the rear panel of the appliance node:
A standard video cable between the VGA (Video Graphics Array) port and a computer monitor.
A USB keyboard to a USB port on the appliance node.
eth0 is not used to SSH to the appliance node as a general practice, but can be used for the initial IPMI configuration via a direct laptop connection to eth0.
- Log on to the Access Appliance shell menu.
Enter the user name and password for the appliance node. By default, the user name is admin and the password is P@ssw0rd where 0 is the number zero.
- Enter the system ipmi network ip= netmask= gateway= command.
where ip is the new IP address for the IPMI port. The netmask and gateway enable connectivity between your network computer and the IPMI port. The IPMI port must be configured as a DHCP or static address. At any point in time, you can run the system ipmi network show command to view the IPMI network details
- Type Exit and press Enter to log out of the Access Appliance shell menu.
- If you have already connected the IPMI port to your network with a Cat5 ethernet cable, check that you can reach the Veritas Remote Management Console using the new address in a web browser.