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3. Log in (from a serial terminal program) as admin, and use “admin” as the password. This
starts the Mellanox configuration wizard.
4. Go through the configuration wizard.
shows an example of a wizard session.
Parity
None
Flow Control
None
Table 10 -
Mellanox UFM-SDN Appliance Configuration
Wizard Session Display (Example)
Comments
Mellanox UFM-SDN Appliance configuration
wizard
Do you want to use the wizard for initial con-
figuration? yes
You must perform this configuration the first time you
operate the appliance or after resetting the appliance to
the factory defaults. Type ‘y’ and then press <Enter>.
Step1:
? [ufm-appliance-898b4e]
If you wish to accept the default hostname, then press
<Enter>. Otherwise, type a different hostname and
press <Enter>.
Step 2:
Use DHCP on eth0 interface? [yes]
Hostname
Perform this step to obtain an IP address for the appli-
ance. (eth0 is the management port of the appliance.)
If you wish the DHCP server to assign the IP address,
type ‘yes’ and press <Enter>.
If you type ‘no’ (no DHCP), then you will be asked
whether you wish to use the ‘zeroconf’ configuration
or not. If you enter ’yes’ (yes Zeroconf), the session
will continue as shown in
If you enter ’no’ (no Zeroconf), then you need to enter
the following information:
• Set primary IP address and network mask for eth0
• Set default gateway
• Set primary DNS server
Set domain name
Step 3:
Admin password (Enter to leave
unchanged)? <new_password>
To avoid illegal access to the machine, please type a
password and then press <Enter>. Then confirm the
password by re-entering it.
Note that password characters are
not
printed.
Step 4
: bond0 IP address and masklen?
[0.0.0.0/0]
Allows defying IP address for IPoIB bond (bond is
pre-configured with ib0 & ib1 ports).
Table 9 - Serial Terminal Program Configuration
Parameter (Continued)
Setting
