| 1 | Installing and Using the Zenoss Virtual Appliance and Vmware Player
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| 3 | 1. Download the Free VMware Player
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| 4 | The free VMware player is available from:
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| 6 | http://www.vmware.com/download/player/
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| 8 | For a typical host system for a VMware installation, you should have a 400MHz or faster processor (500MHz recommended) and 128MB RAM minimum (256MB RAM recommended). You must have enough memory to run the host operating system, plus the memory required for each guest operating system and for applications on the host and guest. Hard disk space requirements consist of at least 1GB free disk space for each guest operating system
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| 10 | NOTE: You can also run the virtual appliance using the free VMserver or workstation. In the type of configuration, you can run the Zenoss virtual appliance and also the sever which you can then monitor in a pure virtual environment on same machine. For more information about running Zenoss under this type of configuration, see the documentation from rpath.com.
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| 13 | 2. Download the Zenoss Virtual Appliance from http://zenoss.com/download/
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| 14 | The link you will follow is called VMware Virtual Appliance Package and is a .zip file.
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| 17 | 3. Once you have downloaded this file, unzip it into the directory where you want to work.
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| 20 | 4. Install and Start the VMware player.
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| 21 | Use the instructions provided by the player to run the VMware player.
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| 24 | 5. When prompted, use the VMware player to navigate to the directory where you unzipped the Zenoss Virtual Appliance package and open the Zenoss Virtual Appliance.
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| 26 | After loading the appliance, the URL you will use to connect to the Zenoss management console will be listed in the virtual machine window. It will appear similar to:
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| 27 | Management console is available at: http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080/zport/dmd
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| 30 | 6. Log in as user root.
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| 31 | Local host login: root
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| 34 | 7. Open a new web browser (Zenoss runs most consistently using Mozilla Firefox) and enter the URL that appears in the login screen. When the login prompt appears, log in as:
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| 35 | User: admin
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| 36 | Password: zenoss
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| 39 | 8. Click OK.
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| 40 | The main Zenoss Dashboard page appears.
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| 42 | NOTE: We recommended that you changed your password to both the Zope server and the root user account. This is done by entering the following commands. Enter
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| 43 | $ passwd
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| 44 | and enter a new password to for the zenoss user password. Then enter:
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| 45 | $ zenpass
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| 46 | and enter a new password for Zope login.
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