User manual ZYXEL VANTAGE CNM QUICK START GUIDE

Vantage CNM Centralized Network Management Quick Start Guide Version 2.2 5/2005 Vantage CNM Quick Start Guide Overview Vantage Centralized Network Management 2.2 (CNM) is a browser-based, management solution that allows you to easily configure, manage and monitor ZyXEL devices from any location. Vantage Centralized Network Management 2.2 will be referred to as "Vantage CNM" in this document. This Quick Start Guide shows you to install Vantage CNM. See the User's Guide for more information. The following figure displays a Vantage CNM application: 1 This is the Vantage CNM "client" that manages ZyXEL devices via the Vantage CNM "server". 2 The Vantage CNM "server" is the computer with Vantage CNM software installed. 3 These are the ZyXEL devices being managed by Vantage CNM. 3 1 2 This Quick Start Guide shows you: 1 The Vantage CNM Requirements 2 A Vantage CNM Installation Procedure 3 How to Start and Stop Vantage CNM 4 How to Access Vantage CNM 5 How to Uninstall Vantage CNM 6 How to Activate Vantage CNM on a ZyXEL Device 7 Troubleshooting 2 Vantage CNM Quick Start Guide 1 Requirements 1.1 Vantage CNM Server Requirements Hardware CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive PS/2 Keyboard PS/2 mouse Monitor HP ProLiant DL380 Hard Disk Software CPU RAM Browser 2 x 73 GB SCSI-3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 3. Vantage CNM Pentium IV Dual 2.8 GHz Xeon 4 GB or more Internet Explorer 6.0 or above with 1024*768 resolution 1.2 Vantage CNM Client Recommended Requirements CPU RAM Operating System Browser Pentium III 450 MHz or faster 256 MB or more Microsoft Windows 2000/ Windows XP Professional Internet Explorer 6.0 or above with 1024*768 screen resolution 1.3 ZyXEL Device Requirements Firmware For details, see the Vantage CNM software release notes. Please read the device release note carefully if you have to upload new device firmware. 2 Vantage CNM Installation Procedure Before you install Vantage CNM, make sure that Red Hat Linux is already installed; see the User's Guide Appendix for further information. · Use the Vantage CNM installation wizard to install Vantage CNM server software. Note: In each wizard screen, click Next to proceed to the next screen in the wizard, click Back to return to the previous screen or click Cancel to abort the installation and exit the wizard. 3 Vantage CNM Quick Start Guide · Use the Terminal screen to run Linux commands. To open the Terminal screen, select the main menu Red Hat icon (usually located on the bottom left of the screen), System Tools and then Terminal. · You also need to open a text file so that you can add to and modify existing Linux code. To open the Text Editor1 screen, select the main menu Red Hat icon, Accessories and then Text Editor. To locate the file that you want to add commands to or modify, click the Open button and browse for the command sequence using the vertical scroll-bars in the Folders and Files sections. Save the file when you are satisfied with the command changes. Note: You should uninstall any previous versions of Vantage CNM before beginning. Make sure that you uninstall any existing MySQL servers. You may have to remove the /etc/my.cnf file if it exists. In the Text Editor, browse for the /etc/my.cnf file and delete the file. 2.1 Extracting Vantage CNM 1 Insert the Vantage CNM CD into the CD-ROM or download the Vantage CNM software and save it to a folder; for example, ./root/Vantage-CNM. 2 Navigate to this folder using the "cd" command and type the following to extract the Vantage CNM files. ./Vantage_CNM.bin 1. At the time of writing Linux RedHat Text Editor was used to modify and amend commands. Other text editing tools can be used; for example gedit or Emacs. 4 Vantage CNM Quick Start Guide (You may need to make the file executable first using chmod +x Vantage_CNM.bin) [root@localhost Vantage-CNM]# chmod +x Vantage_CNM.bin [root@localhost Vantage-CNM]# ls -1 Vantage_CNM.bin Vantage_CNM.bin [root@localhost Vantage-CNM]# ./Vantage_CNM.bin Preparing to install... Extracting the JRE from the installer archive... Unpacking the JRE... Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive... Configuring the installer for this system's environment... Launching installer... Alternatively, double-click the Vantage_CNM.bin icon. 3 Vantage CNM must be able to ping the hostname of your computer; otherwise you see the next screen. 5 Vantage CNM Quick Start Guide 4 The Vantage CNM logo appears briefly when extraction begins. 6 Vantage CNM Quick Start Guide 2.2 Installation Wizard 1 The first wizard screen appears after successful extraction. You should prepare all FTP, SMTP and syslog server IP addresses and login names/passwords. For syslog, you need an SSH login name and password. You can configure these servers during the wizard installation or after you install Vantage CNM in the System > Preferences > Servers screen. If a MySQL server is detected, you see the following screen. 7 Vantage CNM Quick Start Guide 2 Select a folder where you would like to install Vantage CNM. Spaces in the folder name or path are not allowed. You will see an error screen as shown next if your installation folder or path has a space. 8 Vantage CNM Quick Start Guide 3 The next screen asks you where you want to create a Vantage CNM link or shortcut. After you install Vantage CNM you will see a Launch Vantage icon in this folder. 9 Vantage CNM Quick Start Guide 4 You next configure a syslog server. syslog is a logging system that is used by most versions of UNIX. If Vantage CNM finds an existing syslog server on your computer, you see the next screen asking you if this is the syslog server you wish to use. If not, choose No. 10 Vantage CNM Quick Start Guide 5 If you choose Yes in the Auto Configure the Computer as Syslog Server screen, you will then see the next screen. You must create a Telnet account on the syslog server. Vantage CNM uses SSH to communicate with the syslog server to instruct it to send files to an FTP server for retrieval. See the appendices in the User's Guide for details. Follow the instructions as shown in the screen. If you choose No in the Auto Configure the Computer as Syslog Server screen, you must configure the System > Preferences > Server screen in Vantage CNM. 6 The syslog server must be a syslog server running on Linux. · Make sure that syslog is enabled on Linux. Select the main menu Red Hat icon, System Settings, Server Settings and then Services. Scroll down to the syslog checkbox and make sure that it is selected. Vantage CNM communicates with a Linux syslog server using SSH (Secure SHell), so you must enable the SSH daemon on the Linux syslog server. This allows the Linux syslog server to receive logs. Configuration changes to the Linux syslog server can be made in the terminal screen using Linux commands. For Vantage CNM to receive logs from the Linux syslog server, you must do the following on the Linux syslog server. In Text Edit (or a similar text editing tool) open the file path: /etc/syslog.conf Enter this row after it: 11 Vantage CNM Quick Start Guide local2.* /var/log/vantage.log In /etc/syslog.conf find the following row: *.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none /var/log/messages Modify the row to (or if the above row does not exist, type the following): *.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none;local2.none /var/log/messages Open the file path /etc/sysconfig/syslog Syslogd must support the "-r" option. Find the row, SYSLOGD_OPTIONS="..." Modify it as follows: SYSLOGD_OPTIONS="-r" Make sure that you save each file after you make modifications. In the Terminal screen run /etc/init.d/syslog stop and /etc/init.d/syslog start to restart syslog. You can add a telnet account to the Vantage CNM server by typing [root@localhost Vantage-CNM]# useradd followed by a name; for example "test" [root@localhost Vantage-CNM]# passwd followed by a password; for example "1234" Modify the following row: [root@localhost Vantage-CNM]# /var/log/vantage.log To the following using correct name and passwords [root@localhost Vantage-CNM]# cd/var/log [root@localhost Vantage-CNM]# chown test/var/log/vantage.log [root@localhost Vantage-CNM]# chgrp 1234/var/log/vantage.log After you fully install Vantage CNM, you can check the link status in the System > Status screen. 12 Vantage CNM Quick Start Guide 7 The next screen asks you configure an FTP server. The FTP server is used for syslog log file downloads to Vantage CNM and firmware uploads from Vantage CNM to ZyXEL device(s). Follow the instructions in the screen. 8 Make sure that you have selected FTP Server application packet when you installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Make sure that vsftpd is enabled on Linux. Check that the FTP Daemon vsftpd is installed by entering the command [root@localhost Vantage-CNM]# man vsftpd Manual operation displays. In Text Edit find the file path: /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf Make sure that the listen=YES command displays. Add the clause chroot_local_user=yes In the Terminal screen run the command [root@localhost Vantage-CNM]# cp /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf /etc/vsftpd.conf Add a user and assign a folder to that user by typing as follows [root@localhost Vantage-CNM]# useradd -d /var/ftp/pub -M followed by a name; for example test. 13 Vantage CNM Quick Start Guide The next line requests a password for this user. Type a password of not less than six characters. [root@localhost Vantage-CNM]# passwd followed by a password; for example "123456" Note: You can also add users in Linux by doing the following: Select the main menu Red Hat icon, System Settings and then Users and Groups. The Red Hat User Manager screen opens. Select the Add User button and configure a user. In the Terminal screen run the command [root@localhost Vantage-CNM]# chown vantage /var/ftp/pub [root@localhost Vantage-CNM]# chmod 750 /var/ftp/pub And run vsftpd by typing [root@localhost Vantage-CNM]# vsdtpd& [root@localhost Vantage-CNM]# ftp 127.0.0.1 ....try If you want to stop this action type [root@localhost Vantage-CNM]# killall vsftpd Type [root@localhost Vantage-CNM]# chkconfig --level35 vsftpd on to have vsftpd start automatically when the system is up. After you fully install Vantage CNM, you must configure the FTP server section of the System > Preferences > Server screen in Vantage CNM with the same settings. You can check the link status in the System > Status screen. Note: You can also check if vsftpd is enabled on Linux by doing the following: Select the main menu Red Hat icon, System Settings, Server Settings and then Services. Scroll down to the vsftpd checkbox and make sure that it is selected. 14 Vantage CNM Quick Start Guide 9 The next screen asks you to configure a mail server. The mail server is used to send notifications. Follow the instructions in the screen. 15 Vantage CNM Quick Start Guide 10The next screen asks you to configure the Vantage CNM server public address. This is the IP address that the ZyXEL devices use to communicate with Vantage CNM. Follow the instructions in the screen. If Vantage CNM is behind a NAT router, then you need to enter the public IP address (WAN) of the NAT router. 16 Vantage CNM Quick Start Guide 11The next screen is a summary of the servers you configured in this wizard. Click Next to continue. 17 Vantage CNM Quick Start Guide 12 The next screen asks you to review everything you configured in this wizard before continuing. Click Install if everything is as intended. 18 Vantage CNM Quick Start Guide 13 Wait while Vantage CNM installs. 19 Vantage CNM Quick Start Guide 14 Vantage CNM has installed successfully when you see the next screen. It is recommended you restart your computer. 15 Restart LInux by running the command [root@localhost Vantage-CNM]# reboot in the Terminal screen. 16 After Linux restarts and you have logged in as the root user, in the Terminal screen change the directory to the folder you saved Vantage CNM and run the command [root@localhost root]# cd Vantage-CNM [root@localhost Vantage-CNM]# ./LaunchVantageCNM to start the Vantage CNM Server. 3 Starting and Stopping Vantage CNM · In the Terminal screen change the directory to the folder you saved Vantage CNM in and run the command [root@localhost root]# cd Vantage-CNM/ZYCNM_DEPLOY_BED/bin [root@localhost bin]# ./start.sh Or 20