| 1 | Installing and Using the Zenoss Virtual Appliance and Vmware Player |
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| 3 | 1. Download the Free VMware Player The free VMware player is available from: |
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| 5 | http://www.vmware.com/download/player/ |
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| 7 | For a typical host system for a VMware installation, you should have a 400MHz or |
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| 8 | faster processor (500MHz recommended) and 128MB RAM minimum (256MB RAM |
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| 9 | recommended). You must have enough memory to run the host operating system, plus |
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| 10 | the memory required for each guest operating system and for applications on the |
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| 11 | host and guest. Hard disk space requirements consist of at least 1GB free disk |
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| 12 | space for each guest operating system |
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| 14 | NOTE: You can also run the virtual appliance using the free VMserver or |
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| 15 | workstation. In the type of configuration, you can run the Zenoss virtual |
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| 16 | appliance and also the sever which you can then monitor in a pure virtual |
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| 17 | environment on same machine. For more information about running Zenoss under |
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| 18 | this type of configuration, see the documentation from rpath.com. |
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| 21 | 2. Download the Zenoss Virtual Appliance from http://zenoss.com/download/ The |
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| 22 | link you will follow is called "VMware Virtual Appliance Package" and is a .zip |
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| 23 | file. |
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| 26 | 3. Once you have downloaded this file, unzip it into the directory where you |
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| 27 | want to work. |
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| 30 | 4. Install and Start the VMware player. Use the instructions provided by the |
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| 31 | player to run the VMware player. |
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| 34 | 5. When prompted, use the VMware player to navigate to the directory where you |
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| 35 | unzipped the Zenoss Virtual Appliance package and open the Zenoss Virtual |
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| 36 | Appliance. |
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| 38 | After loading the appliance, the URL you will use to connect to the Zenoss |
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| 39 | management console will be listed in the virtual machine window. It will appear |
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| 40 | similar to: Management console is available at: |
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| 41 | http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080/zport/dmd |
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| 44 | 6. Log in as user root. Local host login: root |
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| 47 | 7. Open a new web browser (Zenoss runs most consistently using Mozilla Firefox) |
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| 48 | and enter the URL that appears in the login screen. When the login prompt |
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| 49 | appears, log in as: User: admin Password: zenoss |
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| 52 | 8. Click OK. The main Zenoss Dashboard page appears. |
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| 54 | NOTE: We recommended that you changed your password to both the Zope server and |
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| 55 | the root user account. This is done by entering the following commands. Enter $ |
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| 56 | passwd and enter a new password to for the zenoss user password. Then enter: $ |
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| 57 | zenpass and enter a new password for Zope login. |
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