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Table Of Contents
- Installing Application Manager
- Contents
- Installing and Configuring Application Manager
- Introduction to Application Manager
- Security Considerations and System Requirements for Application Manager
- Preparing to Install Application Manager
- Installing Application Manager
- Configuring Application Manager with the Operator Setup Wizard
- Making Additional Application Manager Configurations
- Troubleshooting Application Manager
- Index
Use the Virtual Appliance Interface for the Initial Application Manager
Configuration
Use the Application Manager virtual appliance interface to make the initial configurations to Application
Manager, such as network and time-related configurations.
When you install the Application Manager virtual appliance, the Application Manager virtual appliance
interface first prompts you for the root and sshuser passwords. After you provide and confirm the passwords,
the interface presents you with a wizard that leads you through the basic configuration. You can return to the
Application Manager virtual appliance interface at any time to update these settings or to perform other
configurations to the SLES operating system.
Prerequisites
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Configure the Application Manager virtual appliance interface after you have installed the virtual
appliance on vSphere. See “Start the Application Manager Virtual Appliance,” on page 27.
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Verify that you followed the steps to prepare for the installation of the Application Manager. See “Prepare
to Install Application Manager,” on page 23.
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If applicable, open a firewall port for an external Network Time Protocol (NTP) server. For more
information about the network requirements for configuring an NTP server, see “Application Manager
Recommendations and Requirements,” on page 19.
Procedure
1 At the root UNIX password prompts, provide and confirm the root user password for access to the SLES
operating system of the Application Manager.
2 At the sshuser UNIX password prompts, provide and confirm the password for remote access to the SLES
operating system of Application Manager.
Application Manager creates the user sshuser for you. This user can access Application Manager virtual
appliance command line remotely using the ssh Linux command, or SSH client. This user has limited
privileges to the command line. Therefore, once you connect remotely, you might want to use the su
command to switch users from sshuser to root.
IMPORTANT SSH (Secure Shell) client is a program for remote access. By default ssh access is limited to
machines on the same subnet. Changing the scope of access involves sshd, the ssh daemon, and might
require you to edit the hosts.allow and hosts.deny files. See Linux man pages for more information.
The wizard of the Application Manager virtual appliance interface starts.
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