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Post-Install Checklist | Completing Post-Installation Tasks
66 OMNM 6.5.3 Installation Guide
Post-Install Checklist
The post-install checklist provides information to collect and recommended steps to complete
post-install tasks.
Getting Started Tasks
Once the Web portal is up, you must perform some initial setup and validation tasks. The Home
page contains the Getting Started portlet. Walk through each step to configure the primary
features for managing and monitoring your network. You can remove the portlet once you complete
the setup tasks. If you need to make changes later, add the portlet using the Add > Application
option. This section provides some information on the file server and some example steps to create
a file server entry.
Changing Default Passwords
Before putting OpenManage Network Manager (OMNM) into a production environment, change
the default passwords noted in this guide, such as the Linux OS login (user = synergy) and the
FTP account (user=ftpuser). Change the MySQL database root password as well (see
Securing
MySQL Passwords
on page 67).
CAUTION:
If credentials are not updated correctly, other processes may stop working. For example, the pre-
installed File servers use the ftpuser account. You can change the ftpuser password from the Linux
operating system. However, the backup/restore operation fails if you do not change the password within
the OMNM software too.
The default user (admin) initially has the password admin. Application administrators can reset
any passwords in the Web portal’s Control Panel, Users and Organizations application. The
database stores all passwords in encrypted form.
Table 6-1. Post-Install Checklist
Item Task Done
1 Obtain inventory of devices (IP addresses) and ports to monitor.
2 Obtain an IP address for the OMNM server and then configure the IP address as a
management station and receiver of SNMP traps on each device.
3 Determine IP range of devices being discovered.
4 Determine if OMNM used SNMP V1, V2 or V3 to communicate with the device.
5 Determine telnet or SSH credentials for devices being discovered.
6 Determine HTTP/HTTPS credentials for devices being discovered (if supported).
7 Determine WMI credentials for server discovery.
8 Configure devices with SNMP and telnet/ssh user name and password credentials for
the devices. OMNM uses these credentials to discover and manage the devices.
9 Make sure you have an FTP/TFTP server for production systems. The OMNM
internal FTP/TFTP server is for testing only.