Running the Initial Configuration Wizard

Before you begin this procedure, make sure you have met all the requirements listed in Prerequisites. Ivanti recommends that you read this section fully before continuing.

A newly installed Traffic Manager appliance requires some basic information in order to function. The Traffic Manager gathers this information over a series of steps that form the Initial Configuration wizard.

Type the URL of the Admin UI into your Web browser to view the first step of the wizard:

Click Next to begin the initial configuration of your appliance.

Read and accept the Ivanti Terms and Conditions of Sale, available from the URL shown:

Read the agreement fully. If you agree to its terms, click I accept the license agreement and then click Next to continue. You cannot proceed with the wizard, and thus use the software, if you do not accept the license agreement.

Use this page to set your appliance basic network configuration. A summary of the network settings to be applied to your appliance is given at the end of the wizard.

Configure the following settings:

To modify the network settings of a fully configured Traffic Manager, use the System > Networking page in the Admin UI. For further details, see the “Configuring System Level Settings” chapter of the Virtual Traffic Manager: User’s Guide.

CAUTION Configuring IP addresses on unplugged interfaces is not recommended. Routing problems could occur if the IP address is located on the same subnet as an IP address on a connected interface. If the IP is on the same subnet as the management port, your appliance might become unreachable.

For optimum performance, Ivanti recommends that you use separate interfaces for front and back end traffic. In other words, for traffic between remote clients and the Traffic Manager, and for traffic between the Traffic Manager and the servers that it is load balancing.

You might find the "Network Layouts" chapter of the Virtual Traffic Manager: User’s Guide helpful in planning your network. Additionally, the Ivanti Community Web site (https://forums.ivanti.com/s/?language=en_US) contains several articles about configuring your Traffic Manager.

Use this page to configure the IP addresses of the name servers to use for DNS resolution and the DNS search domains. In each case, enter a single value or space-separated list of values. These settings are optional, but if you configure one or more name servers, you can use your servers' hostnames rather than IP addresses. This can make subsequent configuration tasks easier.

The Traffic Manager works correctly without access to external name servers, however you then have to use IP addresses instead of hostnames when setting up pools of servers, or manually enter the hostname to IP mappings, which can be done from the Admin UI (in the "DNS" section of the System > Networking page) once you have completed the initial configuration wizard.

The Traffic Manager attempts to resolve your chosen hostname to an IP address using the Name Servers specified (or obtained through DHCP). Where the hostname cannot be resolved, the wizard suggests using one of the IP addresses assigned to your network interfaces instead to identify this Traffic Manager to other cluster members:

Select the desired IP address from the drop-down list, or select "None" to force the wizard to set the Traffic Manager name to be the unresolvable hostname. However, you can experience connectivity issues until the hostname successfully resolves to an IP address within your DNS. Read and confirm your acknowledgement of the Ignore Warning message by clicking the checkbox provided.

To change the identifying IP address after the wizard has completed, use the “Replace Traffic Manager Name” section on the System > Traffic Managers page of the Admin UI.

Use this page to set the time zone for the appliance. This ensures that any logs and diagnostic messages generated by the Traffic Manager have the correct timestamps:

After initial configuration is complete, you can additionally configure your appliance to synchronize with a collection of Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers. For further details, see the Virtual Traffic Manager: User’s Guide.

Use this page to set the password for the admin user. This is the master password that is used when configuring the appliance through a Web browser, or when you log in to the Traffic Manager command line using SSH (with the username "admin"):

The Traffic Manager also contains the option to enable SSH Intrusion Detection to help prevent brute-force SSH attacks on your appliance. Ivanti strongly recommends you enable this option.

Use this page to optionally configure the IPMI settings for this appliance. Choose whether to disable LAN access to the IPMI module, or whether to set the IPMI user account to the Traffic Manager admin username and password defined in this wizard.

Note that if you disable IPMI LAN access, you cannot then set the IPMI user.

The Traffic Manager requires a license key to operate fully. The feature set and bandwidth limits are determined by the license applied, the details of which can be seen on the System > Licenses page of the Admin UI after the Initial Configuration Wizard has completed.

Choose either to upload the license key now, or to upload it later once you have completed the wizard.

This page includes the option to skip uploading a license key and instead run the Traffic Manager software as the Community Edition. For further information, see The Community Edition.

For information about paid licensing, contact Technical Support.

Before your settings are applied to the appliance, the initial configuration wizard displays a summary of the settings you have configured.

Review these settings, and in particular the specified network settings, since your appliance might become uncontactable if any of the settings are incorrect. Use the Back button to go back through the wizard to make any changes.

To apply your settings, click Finish.

The Admin UI presents a page with a link to the new URL of the Admin UI. Ivanti recommends waiting a short period (typically 10 – 30 seconds) before clicking the link, to allow the appliance time to reconfigure its network interfaces. You might also need to reconfigure your computer’s network settings so that it can send packets to the IP address of the appliance management interface.

Click the link to view the login page of the Admin UI. Log in using the username "admin" and the password you chose during the wizard.