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Table 2‑1. Deployment Options Access Point (Continued)
Deployment
Property OVF Tool Option Description
DNS server
addresses
--prop:DNS=ip-of-name-server1[ ip-of-name-
server2 ...]
(Required) Specifies one or more space-separated
IPv4 addresses of the domain name servers for
this virtual machine (example: 192.0.2.1
192.0.2.2). You can specify up to three servers.
By default, this property is not set, which means
that the system uses the DNS server that is
associated with the Internet-facing NIC.
CAUTION If you leave this option blank and if no
DNS server is associated with the Internet-facing
NIC, the appliance will not be deployed
correctly.
Password for the
root user
--prop:rootPassword=password
(Required) Specifies the password for the root
user of this virtual machine. The password must
be a valid Linux password.
Default: none.
Password for the
admin user
--prop:adminPassword=password
If you do not set this password, you will not be
able to access the REST API on the Access Point
appliance.
Passwords must be at least 8 characters long,
contain at least one uppercase and one lowercase
letter, one digit, and one special character, which
includes ! @ # $ % * ( ).
Default: none.
Locale to use for
localized
messages
--prop:locale=locale-code
(Required) Specifies the locale to use when
generating error messages.
n
en_US for English
n
ja_JP for Japanese
n
fr_FR for French
n
de_DE for German
n
zh_CN for Simplified Chinese
n
zh_TW for Traditional Chinese
n
ko_KR for Korean
Default: en_US.
Syslog server
URL
--prop:syslogUrl=url-of-syslog-server
Specifies the Syslog server used for logging
Access Point events.
This value can be a URL or a host name or IP
address. The scheme and port number are
optional (example: syslog://server.example.com:
514).
By default, this property is not set, which means
that no events are logged to a syslog server.
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