Setting up a BMC Discovery appliance

A BMC Discovery appliance is required if you are using BMC Helix with the on-premises version of BMC Helix Operations Management and BMC Helix Service Monitoring (AIOps). You can use an an existing cluster or stand-alone BMC Discovery appliance. If you don't have an existing BMC Discovery appliance, you need to deploy one. For more information, see  Installing the virtual appliance .

1. Make sure that the BMC Discovery appliance can communicate with RSSO and the Ingress controller. You can test it with the ping and nslookup commands. 
   If it fails, add the entry for the appliance in the /etc/hosts or /etc/resolve.conf file.

2. Test the HTTPS connection by using the following command:
   curl -vv RSSO_HTTPS_FQDN/rsso/admin/#/
   

    Click to see the sample output of the curl command

   curl -vv https://pelab3-sso-private-poc.dsmlab.bmc.com/rsso/admin/#/
   
   
   *   Trying
   172.19.48.113...
   
   
   * TCP_NODELAY set
   
   
   * Connected to pelab3-sso-private-poc.dsmlab.bmc.com (172.19.48.113)
   port 443 (#0)
   
   
   * schannel: SSL/TLS connection
   with pelab3-sso-private-poc.dsmlab.bmc.com port
   443 (step 1/3)
   
   
   * schannel: checking server certificate
   revocation
   
   
   * schannel: sending initial
   handshake data: sending 202 bytes...
   
   
   * schannel: sent initial handshake
   data: sent 202 bytes
   
   
   * schannel: SSL/TLS connection
   with pelab3-sso-private-poc.dsmlab.bmc.com port
   443 (step 2/3)
   
   
   * schannel: failed to receive
   handshake, need more data
   
   
   * schannel: SSL/TLS connection
   with pelab3-sso-private-poc.dsmlab.bmc.com port
   443 (step 2/3)
   
   
   * schannel: encrypted data got 3977
   
   
   * schannel: encrypted data buffer:
   offset 3977 length 4096
   
   
   * schannel: sending next handshake
   data: sending 358 bytes...
   
   
   * schannel: SSL/TLS connection
   with pelab3-sso-private-poc.dsmlab.bmc.com port
   443 (step 2/3)
   
   
   * schannel: encrypted data got 91
   
   
   * schannel: encrypted data buffer:
   offset 91 length 4096
   
   
   * schannel: SSL/TLS handshake
   complete
   
   
   * schannel: SSL/TLS connection
   with pelab3-sso-private-poc.dsmlab.bmc.com port
   443 (step 3/3)
   
   
   * schannel: decrypted data buffer:
   offset 0 length 102400
   
   
   < HTTP/1.1 200
   
   
   < Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2021
   12:15:57 GMT
   
   
   < Content-Type: text/html
   
   
   < Content-Length: 1719
   
   
   < Connection: keep-alive
   
   
   < Vary: Accept-Encoding

3. Log on to the BMC Discovery appliance URL. 
   The default username is system and the default password is system.

4. On the Change password screen, set the following three passwords and note them down:

   Example
   Smart Appliance URL
   Username / password : system / myP4sswd#
    
   tideway login
   ssh login : tideway / myP4sswd%
    
   Root login
   su root
   password: myP4sswd$

5. Set the hostname.
   For more information, see  The netadmin user  

   
   

   su - netadmin
   [root@dhcp-10-128-127-93 tideway]# su - netadmin
    
   ADDM Appliance Network Administration Shell
   -------------------------------------------
    
     G  Configure General Settings
     I  Configure Network Interfaces
     P  Change netadmin password
     R  Exit & Reboot the appliance
     Q  Exit *without* rebooting
    
   Select option: G
    
   Configure General Settings
   --------------------------
    
     H  Change Hostname: localhost.localdomain
     G  Change Gateway: None
     D  Discard changes
     C  Commit changes
     Q  Return to the Main menu
    
   Select option: H
   Hostname or FQDN [localhost.localdomain] : <hostname>
    
   Configure General Settings
   --------------------------
    
     H  Change Hostname: <hostname> [CHANGED]
     G  Change Gateway: None
     D  Discard changes
     C  Commit changes
     Q  Return to the Main menu
    
   Select option: C
   Are you sure [n] ? y
    
   Configure General Settings
   --------------------------
    
     H  Change Hostname: <hostname>
     G  Change Gateway: None
     D  Discard changes
     C  Commit changes
     Q  Return to the Main menu
    
   Select option: Q
    
   ADDM Appliance Network Administration Shell
   -------------------------------------------
    
     G  Configure General Settings
     I  Configure Network Interfaces
     P  Change netadmin password
     R  Exit & Reboot the appliance
     Q  Exit *without* rebooting
    
   Select option: R

6. Create a DNS alias for the URL created for the Discovery appliance with the IP of the Discovery appliance machine.
   For example, acme-disc-private-poc.lab.bmc.com
   Make sure that the format of the URL is as shown in the above example.
7. Apply the Technology Knowledge Updates (TKU). For more information, see  Knowledge management (for BMC Discovery appliance) .