Preparing vMA for first use

A vMA deployed appliance will need to go through a few manual configuration steps before you can begin using it. The configuration is done at the appliance's guest operating system level.

Note

The vMA appliance runs SUSE Linux Enterprise Linux (SLES) 11 SP1 as the guest operating system.

How to do it…

The follow procedure will help you prepare the vMA VM for first use:

1. Power on the vMA VM and wait for the VM to boot-up and display the network configuration main menu.

   

2. Enter 6 to select IP Address Allocation for eth0 and supply the static configuration and then enter y to confirm the configuration.

   

3. Enter 2 to set the Default Gateway. Although, I have supplied an IPv4 address in this example, you can supply an IPv6 address instead. This step is completely dependent on your network infrastructure.

   

4. Enter 4 and supply the DNS Server details. Although I have supplied a single DNS sever address in this example, most environments will have a secondary DNS server.

   

5. Enter 3 and supply...