Post deployment configuration (shared for all deployment types)

Shared steps for Nutanix vSensors after the initial deployment in Nutanix is completed.

Introduction

The steps below are shared fully for both Service Chaining 1.0 and Traffic Mirroring deployment methods.

After you have completed step 1, you can just move to the next page using the buttons at the bottom of the page or link to specific pages with the hyperlink in each step title.

1

Power on Your Nutanix vSensor

You can now power on your vSensor VM. If you have your hypervisor console open, you can watch the boot process. You will see an Ubuntu boot screen from which you can hit esc to watch system messages during the boot process if you desire.

• The Sensor will do an initial boot and then shortly reboot and use the seed.iso file to perform some initial configuration.

  • The seed.iso contains init-config which is required for the vSensor to detect the vNIC for the management interface and assign DHCP or static IP.
• If you miss the reboot, you can do a reboot at the CLI of the vSensor if you are unsure that it already happened. The reboot command is reboot. Initial vSensor Configuration shows how to login to the vSensor if this is required.

Once you’ve completed the initial boot and reboot, you are ready to login and do the initial vSensor configuration at the CLI.

2

Initial vSensor Configuration at CLI

Perform initial configuration at the Sensor’s command line via SSH or hypervisor console to set a static IP, DNS, and change the vSensor default password.

3

Pair the Nutanix vSensor to Your Brain

The vSensor must be paired to your Brain so that it can forward captured traffic to it for further processing.

4

Validate Traffic Flow to Your vSensor

After pairing is complete, checking the traffic flow to see that it is functioning properly is recommended.