Useful System Information

If your license key expires (or if you actively select it the first time you log in), the Traffic Manager operates in a default state known as the Community Edition. In this state, the Traffic Manager operates normally and with full functionality, but with a bandwidth limit of 10Mb/second and cluster size limit of 4. The Community Edition is designed as a free, production-ready, variant of the Traffic Manager useful for system administrators and application developers wanting to try out advanced vADC (virtual Application Delivery Controller) capabilities in a production environment.

To upgrade the Traffic Manager from the Community Edition to incorporate a full license key, use the System > Licenses page of the Admin UI.

Where the Traffic Manager is operating inside a cluster, you must ensure that the proposed license key update is compatible with other fully licensed cluster instances to avoid unintended functionality impairment. Ivanti strongly recommends that you seek advice from your support provider before updating license keys in a mixed cluster of Community Edition and fully-licensed Traffic Managers.

You normally administer the virtual appliance through the Web-based Admin UI. However, you can also access the Traffic Manager through the console (command line) to access files stored on the system. To do this, use an SSH client to log in to the virtual appliance.

Over time, your appliance can run low on disk space. For example, your system logs can become large if you have configured your Traffic Manager to produce detailed request log information.

The Traffic Manager warns you if disk space is running low through the Event Log and Diagnose > Cluster Diagnosis page. You can also view disk space usage at any time through the System > Traffic Managers page.

To free up disk space, click Free up some disk space from the Wizards: drop-down menu in the main tool bar. You can also run the wizard from the "Free Disk Space" link on the System > Traffic Managers page at any time, and from the Diagnose > Cluster Diagnosis page when a low disk space warning appears.

CAUTION This operation is irreversible. Make sure you have created a backup of any files you need to keep before running the wizard. Note also that any "Technical Support Reports" you create afterwards contain only those logs generated since the wizard was run.

Each Traffic Manager in your cluster uses a DNS resolvable hostname with which it can be identified and contacted by each other cluster member. If you are unable to use a resolvable name, you can instead use a contactable IP address. You set the hostname or IP address during the initial configuration of your Traffic Manager. See Using the Initial Configuration Wizard.

To change the designated Traffic Manager hostname after you have completed the initial configuration, or to instead switch to using an IP address, run the Ivanti Configuration Program from the virtual appliance console:

This program displays the following options:

Select Perform the post-install configuration again and then choose which action you want to perform from the further options provided:

You can also switch to using an IP address from the Replace Traffic Manager Name section on the System > Traffic Managers page of the Admin UI. You cannot, however, switch back to using a resolvable name from this page. Instead, rerun $ZEUSHOME/zxtm/configure as previously described.

If you would like to completely reset the virtual appliance back to its unconfigured state, use the following command. Be aware that this command completely erases your existing configuration, including the network configuration and any additional software modules you might have installed (such as the Virtual Web Application Firewall).

After the virtual appliance has been reset, reconfigure the virtual appliance using the instructions in Using the Initial Configuration Wizard or Configuring a Virtual Appliance From the Command Line.

If you forget the admin user password, you can reset it from the virtual appliance console.

To reset the admin user password