Infoblox NetMRI Virtual Appliance ZIP README
For use with:
* VMware Workstation 10
* VMware Fusion
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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A. WELCOME
B. OVERVIEW
C. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
D. INSTALLATION AND SETUP
E. TROUBLESHOOTING
F. GETTING HELP
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A. WELCOME
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Thank you for downloading the NetMRI Virtual Appliance!
NetMRI enables organizations to take control of network configurations and changes-making it easy to identify hard-to-find configuration problems and meet compliance requirements. NetMRIcollects change, configuration and network performance data via SNMP, CLI (or config) and syslog and utilizes built-in subject matter expertise to audit, analyze and automate network change. NetMRI is unique in the ability to correlate network change and configuration data with network performance and compliance criteria so users can quickly pinpoint the impact of change.
When NetMRI detects a potential problem or suboptimal configuration, it automatically generates an issue so users can remediate the problem before end users may be impacted. Instead of manually making changes to devices, NetMRI automates the process which reduces time, effort and potential human errors.The policy views help IT organizations maintain a consistent and compliant network with proactive monitor and one-click reporting.The built-in intelligence and remediation allow your IT staff to focus on business impacting issues and to spend less time firefighting and doing manual, repetitive processes.
B. OVERVIEW
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The NetMRI Virtual Appliance is a fully capable instance of the NetMRI application that runs on your hardware under VMware. This ".zip" file archive contains the files necessary for you to import the NetMRI Virtual Appliance into any of the following VMWare products:
* VMware Workstation 10
* VMWare Fusion
C. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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The minimum requirements for a NetMRI Virtual Appliance VM are (2) 2.4 GHz CPU, 8GB Memory, 60GB Storage.
The NetMRI UI can be accessed by any of the following supported web browsers:
IE7 or later; Firefox 3.6 or later; Chrome 5.0.x or later; Safari 5.x or later.
D. INSTALLATION AND SETUP
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Overview
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Getting started with the NetMRI Virtual Appliance is a simple, three-step process:
1. Unpack the Virtual Appliance ZIP archive
2. Import and run the Virtual Appliance
3. Access NetMRI in your browser and follow the Setup
Wizard screens to configure NetMRI
Unpack
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Unzip the contents of the NetMRI Virtual Appliance ZIP archive file into an appropriate directory.
Import
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Follow the instructions for your VMware product:
VMware Workstation 10 & Fusion
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1. Start your VMware application
2. Click on "File -> Open"
3. In the file explorer, navigate to the folder where the zip file contents where extracted and select the NetMRIvirtual machine file
4. Select the NetMRI Virtual Appliance you have imported and command it to "Power On"
Configure
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Note: The NetMRI's IP address is defaulted to 169.254.1.1at this point. The next steps will describe how to configure yourNetMRI's IP address.
1. At the login prompt enter 'admin' for the user name and passwordto enter into NetMRI's Administrative Shell, whereyou will be presented with a list of available command. You canview this list at any time by enter "?" at the prompt.
2. Enter "configure server" at the prompt. You will be promptedto start system setup, enter "y" to continue. You willbe prompted to enter a Network Name, Server Name, Domains,Time Server, and Time Zone and Location. You will also beprompted to enter an IP Address, Subnet Mask, IPv6 Address and Prefix, IPv4 and IPv6 Default Gateways again. You canchange these here, or accept the defaults. You will thenbe prompted to configure the Scan Ports and DNS Servers.If you make any errors entering the data,you will have the option to correct them. If you aresatisfied with the data select "n", where you will beprompted to configure these IP settings. Enter "y".NetMRI will be configured with these settings andthen automatically restart.
3. At the prompt, type “set temp_license”.
4. Select netmri license orautomation change license. Most customers will choose “netmri” in order to evaluate all features. If you only want to evaluate the Automation Change Manager (ACM) features, with the analysis and policy features of full NetMRI disabled, then choose “automation change manager”. NetMRI includes all of the features of ACM, and additional features for network analysis and configuration policy enforcement.
Note: The NetMRI Virtual Appliance may reboot after each license is applied.
NOTE: The NetMRI Virtual Appliance may reboot after allsettings have been applied
At this point, you can now access your NetMRI via a webbrowser with the IP Address configured above.
Access
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Access NetMRI via a supported web browser using the IPaddress configured above.
NetMRI begins by taking you through an easy, four-step
Setup Wizard:
1. Set the new Admin password
2. Configure IP addresses that NetMRI will monitor
3. Configure SNMP community strings for network devices
4. Configure Command Line Interface (CLI) credentials for networkdevices
After you click finish, the Setup Wizard will take you directlyinto the NetMRI UI and immediately begin collecting andanalyzing information about your network devices.
E. Troubleshooting
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NetMRI taking a long time to load
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* The NetMRI Virtual Appliance is a fully featured andcapable IT management appliance shipped to you in its mostcompact form. The very first time you load, it is unpacking andconfiguring itself, creating databases and resources in a processthat can go on for five minutes or more depending on theperformance of your hardware platform and other applications youmay have running on it. After you complete this initial load,NetMRI will resume from its suspended state almost instantly.
NetMRI not seeing the network
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* Check to see that any personal firewalls on the PC platform aredisabled. NetMRI uses a wide variety of means tocommunicate with the network and an enabled personal firewallwill almost certainly interfere.
* Make sure that the VMware "Network Adapter" is configuredto "Bridged". Other settings will not work.
F. GETTING HELP
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NetMRI contains a comprehensive embedded help system to assist you in getting started. For even more information about installing the NetMRI Virtual Appliance and using
NetMRI, contact your Infoblox account representative, or if you don’t have one, contact Infoblox sales via phone at +1 866 463 6256 or .