5.1.2 Help File
You can access the online help for the appliance by clicking the
Help
button in the top right of the screen.
If your client PCs do not have internet access, you may download a PDF of the appliance user guide and host it on an
internal web server. To download the user guide, go to www.VertivCo.com.
Once you've downloaded the user guide and hosted it on a server, enter its path in the Help File URL field.
5.1.3 Email Settings
The appliance can generate email alerts for events that occur on the appliance or its associated target devices. Once an
SMTP/email server is configured, alerts can be sent to as many as four email addresses.
See
on page 67 to configure alerts and their email recipients.
5.2 Defaults
From the
Defaults
tab, you can restore the appliance to its factory default settings.
You can also configure the date and time, NTP server settings as well as setting the time zone and daylight savings. If you
do not have access to an NTP server, you can manually set the date and time.
NOTE: You have to set the time on the appliance before enrolling it in the
Trellis
™ Real-Time Infrastructure
Optimization platform.
5.3 Network Settings
Click
Network Settings
to configure the hostname, DNS, domain name, IPv4 default gateway and IPv6 default gateway.
5.3.1 Network modes
The appliance provides agentless remote access and control. No special software or drivers are required on the attached
servers or client.
The appliance has three physical network interfaces (eth0, eth1, priv0). Each interface has an individual MAC address and
can be configured for normal or failover modes. Only the public GB1 (eth0) and GB2 (eth1) are visible to the user interface.
The 40 private target ports are virtually configured to connect through the internal priv0 interface.
To configure individual ports, see
NOTE: Changes to the appliance network mode will invalidate default firewall rules and can interrupt communication
with the appliance. See the following for more information.
Placing the appliance into Failover mode or adding eth0 or eth1 to a Bridge group will disable the IP addresses currently
assigned to some/all appliance interfaces. New interfaces will be activated (Failover = bond0, Bridge group = <group
name>). By default, the new interface will not inherit any former IPs assigned to either eth0 or eth1. For best results when
placing an appliance in Failover mode or creating a Bridge group, the operator should perform the configuration changes
via the VGA console or the serial Setup port to avoid losing communication access to the appliance. All firewall rules that
reference interfaces replaced during the network configuration change should be edited to ensure proper network
communication when operating the appliance in the new mode. This means eth0/eth1 must be replaced with bond0 where
applicable.
NOTE: The default IP addresses for the appliance are: GB1 (eth0) = DHCP, GB2 (eth1) = 192.168.1.10.
Normal
In Normal mode, the public interfaces and the public target ports are separated by a firewall. GB1 and GB2 function
independent of each other and can assume individual IP addresses. Only a single gateway can be defined for the appliance,
but static routes are helpful for enabling the appliance to communicate with various subnets from either interface.
For example: An appliance with GB1 connected to a 192.168.200.x/24 network with a gateway of 192.168.200.1. GB2 is
connected to a 10.1.0.x/24 network with a gateway of 10.1.0.1. If the default gateway for the appliance is set to GB1 (eth0),
then the appliance will not be able to communicate with other 10.x.x.x networks via the gateway assigned to GB2. A static
route can be added to the appliance indicating that 10.1.0.1 should be used to communicate with all 10.x.x.x subnets.
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