Create the Control Plane Virtual Machine

This is part two of a five-part process.

1. Open the controlplane.conf file, which you obtained when you untarred the release tar file.
2. Update controlplane.conf as described in the comments of the file.
   • To be able to discover 9920 devices that have IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, set the eth0_ADDRTYPE variable to v4v6 and enter both addresses.
   • To be able to discover 9920 devices that have only IPv4 addresses, set the eth0_ADDRTYPE variable to v4 and then enter the addresses.
   • You cannot change the mode (v4 or v4v6) after you install Visibility Manager.
3. Copy controlplane.conf to xvmconf.
   

   # cp controlplane.conf xvmconf

4. Copy the xvmconf file to the qcow image.
   

   # virt-copy-in -a <absolute-path-for-controlplane-qcow2-file> xvmconf /etc/

5. Install the control plane VM.
   For example:

   

   virt-install --name controlplane198  --ram 4096 --vcpus 2 
   --disk path=/home/user/sbrBuilds/controlplane-xvm.qcow2,bus=sata  --nographics --import 
   --os-variant centos7.0 --network bridge:<name-of-bridge> --console pty,target_type=virtio

   

   Note

   The <name-of-bridge> variable is the name of the bridge that is built into your host system. You can use the ifconfig command to identify the bridge configuration of the host.
   The VM starts.
6. Log in with the following credentials.
   • user name: root
   • password: password