4.5 Installing the Appliance on Hardware

Before installing the appliance on the hardware, ensure that the appliance ISO disk image is downloaded from the support site, unpacked, and is available on a DVD.

  1. Boot the physical machine from the DVD drive with the DVD.

  2. Use the on-screen instructions of the installation wizard.

  3. Run the Live DVD appliance image by selecting the top entry in the boot menu.

  4. Read and accept the Novell SUSE Enterprise Server Software License Agreement.

  5. Read and accept the Novell Sentinel Log Manager End User License Agreement.

  6. Select Next.

  7. In the Hostname and Domain Name screen, specify the hostname and domain name.

    Ensure that the Assign Hostname to Loopback IP option is selected.

  8. Select Next.The hostname configurations are saved.

  9. Do one of the following:

    • To use the current network connection settings, select Use the following configuration in the Network Configuration screen.

    • To change the network connection settings, select Change.

  10. Select Next. The network connection settings are saved.

  11. Set the Time and Date, then click Next.

    NOTE:To change the NTP configuration after installation, use YaST from the appliance command line. You can use WebYast to change the time and date, but not the NTP configuration.

    If the time appears out of sync immediately after the install, run the following command to restart NTP:

    rcntp restart

  12. Set the root password, then click Next.

  13. Set the Sentinel Log Manager admin password and dbauser password, then click Next.

  14. Enter the username and password at the console to log in to the appliance.

    The default value for the username is root and the password is password.

  15. Reset the terminal configurations:

    reset

  16. To install the appliance on the physical server, run the following command:

    /sbin/yast2 live-installer

    The installation proceeds and completes. Make a note of the appliance IP address that is shown in the console.

  17. Proceed with Section 4.6, Post-Installation Setup for the Appliance.

NOTE:When you start the system for the first time after installation, it might take approximately five minutes for the system to initialize before you can start using it. This delay only occurs when you start the system for the first time after the installation or an update.