After the Backbone Fabric Controller installation completes, you must modify the general administration properties and configure the download settings before you can configure your network. Once you have specified the base network information, you can edit the network settings later as needed to add and remove address ranges that the BFC will use to assign for use by the grid nodes and grid applications.
Note: You must add at least as many addresses for each network as you have nodes to be able to discover the nodes.
This section contains the following topics:
Modify General Administration Properties
The General tab of the Administration section enables you to modify the general properties of the BFC. Properties include the Backbone controller ID, Grid IDs, External DNS servers, and external storage parameters.
Note: If you select LDAP as the authentication method, then a global user is only recognized in the global directory service if its entry uses one of the following basic object classes for a person:
In addition, a group in the global directory service is only recognized if its entry uses one of the basic object classes for a group (groupOfNames and groupOfUniqueNames).
Follow these steps:
The Administration page appears.
The 'network number' portion of the CA AppLogic 'grid id'. Value should be between 1..254. All grids that created by this BFC will use this as the network number portion of their ID. This field can only be modified when no grids are configured.
List of grid IDs or ranges to be used by this BFC instance. Valid values are 1-31.
Base address for the IP space used by grid appliances. Must be a class A network, and either 10.0.0.0 or 1.0.0.0. Use 10.x.x.x unless you are installing in an environment where the 10.x.x.x subnet is already in use. This field can only be modified when no grids are configured.
The Account name that is assigned to the grid operator by CA Technologies. This setting is required when installing a new grid and it must be a valid name that is registered in the CA user database.
Name of a file containing a private SSH key identifying the user account.
Enables you to specify that the default authentication is Local, LDAP, or Active Directory. This setting determines how CA AppLogic authenticates a user using Role Based Access Control.
Primary and secondary DNS servers that are passed to CA AppLogic grids.
Your changes are saved and the general properties of a grid are configured.
The Versions tab on the Administration page enables you to configure the settings to download the latest CA AppLogic grid software.
Follow these steps:
The Administration page opens.
Locally-accessible directory that contains the available CA AppLogic versions. For example, path/to/my/dir. Do not include the actual download folder name in the path. That is, do not indicate path/to/my/dir/3.1.8. The version downloads directory must be readable and writable by the bfcadmin user. If a user other than bfcadmin creates the directory, you may not have adequate permissions for the directory to download the software. This field is required.
Note: Do not use the /home/bfcadmin folder as your download directory. If you uninstall the BFC, this folder is removed.
Specifies the server from which you download the CA AppLogic versions. For example, download.3tera.net.
Enables you to test the download server.
Location of the download key file that is supplied by CA. The file should reside on your workstation. Click Browse to locate and select the file. Click Reset to reset the file.
The download user for grid software updates.
You can now work with software versions displayed on the Downloads page.
|
Copyright © 2013 CA Technologies.
All rights reserved.
|
|