Starting the Virtual Appliance

Welcome Screen and IP Address

 After starting up the appliance for the first time, you should be presented with a panagenda iDNA Applications welcome screen. If your network has a public DHCP server available, the system might already have acquired an IP address and will display the URL. Use the shown IP address (interface URL) in your web browser to connect to the panagenda iDNA Applications web interface. If DHCP is not available within your network or the panagenda iDNA Applications appliance did not acquire any IP address, you have to configure the panagenda iDNA Applications appliance network settings (see further below).

Appliance Login

iDNA Applications provides a console and a graphical user interface in order to configure operating system level settings like network, time and time zone settings.

Default login information:

user "root" with password "config"

Changing default credentials:

We strongly suggest changing the default credentials for these components:

• Linux user "root" (using the "passwd" command)
• VNC server (see Remote Appliance Access (VNC))
• Web user "config" (see Change Password)

Console

After login, basic information, such as disk space, system time and IP address, are shown:

Graphical User Interface

There are two ways to use the GUI to configure your iDNA Applications appliance:

1. Local
   In order to start the GUI locally, enter the command "startx"
   To start the GUI automatically when iDNA Applications is booted, please enter the following command: "systemctl set-default graphical.target"
   
   

2. Remote Access via VNC
   

   Please note that remote VNC access is only possible if the iDNA Applications appliance received an IP address via DHCP.

   Please refer to Remote Appliance Access (VNC) for more details.

GUI Basics

 

The Applications menu provides access to all required applications:

To check an established internet connection, a web browser (Mozilla Firefox) is available on the panagenda iDNA Applications appliance. 

You can use the terminal window to check if your TCP/IP connection is established, using Linux ping and ifconfig command. For more information about ping and ifconfig commands, type man ping or man ifconfig in the terminal console window. 
panagenda iDNA Applications log files can be found within the /opt/panagenda/logs directory. The main log file (idna/idna.log) holds essential information about panagenda iDNA Applications runtime behavior. Use the Files application to navigate to these log files.
To check the panagenda iDNA Applications appliances system behavior, you can use the installed system monitor.

Network Settings:

To change the IP address and DNS configuration please click on the Network icon. Select the Ethernet connection and click on Edit:

Go to the IPv4 Settings tab and select Manual from the Method drop down menu to configure the network settings as required:

Host Name Configuration:

The host name of the appliance must be changed to reflect the DNS settings in the customer's environment. This can either be accomplished by using the desktop application "Host Information" or by manually editing the file /etc/hostname.

Editing via "Host Information"

In this field, only the server's common name is entered. E.g. if the full server name is "server1.acme.com", only "server1" would be entered here.

Editing "/etc/hostname" manually

When editing the hosts file (e.g. with gedit or vim), both the common name and the fully qualified name should be entered as additional alias for 127.0.0.1. The existing aliases "localhost" and "localhost.localdomain" must remain as aliases.

Time Zone Settings:

Please check the time zone settings of the appliance, use the Time and Date application to adjust.