Installing the Ivanti EPMM ISO image on M2250 and M2600 appliances
2 min
The following steps describe the installation of the Ivanti EPMM software.
Prerequisites
- Connect a monitor and keyboard to the Ivanti EPMM appliance.
- Power on the appliance to boot the system.
- If you are using a USB flash drive to install Ivanti EPMM ISO to an M2250 or M2600 appliance, ensure that you have prepared the USB flash drive as described in Preparing a USB flash drive for installation.
Procedure
- Insert the DVD or USB flash drive (containing the Ivanti EPMM ISO image) into the appliance.
- Wait for the appliance to reboot for the installation program to begin after a few minutes.
- Enter the command for the installation you want to complete:
- vm-install: for a virtual Ivanti EPMM.
- hw-install: for any standard physical appliance.
- hw-m2250-m2600-install: for physical appliance installation on the M2250, or M2600 appliances.
- hw-m2250-m2600-usb-install: for installing Ivanti EPMM from a USB flash drive onto the M2250 or M2600 appliances.
- Press ENTER to start the installation process.
- In the Welcome wizard type yes to display the end user license agreement.
- Scroll through and read the agreement.
- Type yes to accept the End User License Agreement.
- Enter the company name. The company name you enter will serve as the default enterprise name used in SMS and email communication.
- Enter the name of the person in your organization who will serve as the contact point for Ivanti EPMM communications.
- Enter the email address for the contact person.
- Enter the new password. The password must be between 6 and 20 characters.
- Re-enter the password.
- Enter the user name you want to assign for the first administrative user.
Do not use root or or ha_admin.
- Enter the password you want to assign for the administrator. This password must contain at least 8 characters and include numerals and capital letters.
- Re-enter the administrator password.
- Enter the letter for the physical interface you want to use to connect to the management network.
- for GigabitEthernet1
- for GigabitEthernet2
- Enter the IP address that you created for Ivanti EPMM. It will be associated with the physical interface you selected in the previous step.
- Enter the netmask for use with the IP address you just entered, for example, 255.255.255.0.
- Enter the default network gateway for Ivanti EPMM.
- Enter the external hostname (fully-qualified domain name) for the appliance.
Do not use an internal hostname. Managed devices must be able to access Ivanti EPMM from the Internet.
- Enter the IP address of the primary name server to be used by Ivanti EPMM.
- Enter optional secondary and tertiary name servers as preferred. Leave the fields blank and press Enter to skip specifying additional name servers.
- Enter yes to enable remote access via SSH.
- Enter yes to configure an optional reliable time source at the Configure NTP prompt. We recommend that you configure at least one time source to ensure proper synchronization of time-based tasks.
- If you entered yes for configuring a time source, enter the IP address of the primary time source to use.
- If you specified a time source, you can enter secondary and tertiary time sources.
- If you do not specify at least one time source, then you have the option to configure the system clock.
- If prompted, enter yes to configure the system clock’s time and date.
- Use HH:MM:SS as the format for the time you enter.
- Use DD MM YYYY as the format for the date you enter.
- Review the displayed command script.
- Enter yes to save the changes. When the configuration is complete, the installation program displays the Configuration complete message.
- Enter reload to reboot the system and enable the portal service.
- Enter yes when prompted to save the system configurations.
- Enter yes to proceed with reload. A successful installation displays the Ivanti EPMM CLI banner on the console. The installation script continues, displaying status on the console. This may take several minutes.