VMware Aria Operations for Networks (vrni) 6.11 Series Part 11 – vrni architecture on-premises diagram
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Before an upgrade of vrni ensure you have an offline snapshot of platform(s) and collector (s) nodes. Post upgrade delete snapshots, VMware doesn’t recommend to run VMs with snapshots for…
Vrni certificate official VMware article https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2148128 Download openssl for windows https://kb.firedaemon.com/support/solutions/articles/4000121705#Download-OpenSSL Extract the zip Create a vrni-config.cfg file Put the below information in it but adjust it to your environment…
Official VMware article to configure vidm with vrni https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vRealize-Network-Insight/6.9/com.vmware.vrni.using.doc/GUID-82E02DB9-A601-4A9D-9C1F-52204AAA203E.html Login to the platform UI, expand settings, click identity and access management, click vmware identity manager tab, click configure Login to…
Login to the platform UI, expand settings on the left, click alerts and notifications, click mail server tab Type in the mail server details and click submit Click alert definitions…
I will do a three node platform cluster. I created two more dns entries You can look at the previous sections for deploying a platform node but deploy two more…
Changing the host name is now supported in vrni 6.11 Login in as consoleuser to each platform node and collector Type ‘hostname update –hosts ni-p.vmware.local’ Or for cluster Type ‘hostname…
I will create the following AD accounts and groups in active directory to use for the vrni configuration. vrni-joinad – active directory account with delegated permissions to join to domain.…
Deploy a new ovf file in vcenter Select the collector ova file and click next Type in a virtual machine name and click next Select a host or cluster and…
When you login the first time into VRNI you add a source to start collecting. I do recommend creating service accounts in vCenter and NSX-T if adding those sources. Accounts…