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Chapter 6 Administering the MARS Appliance
Image downloading from the CD (about 30 minutes)
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Image installation after the download (about 45 minutes)
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Basic system configuration (about 5 minutes)
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To re-image your Global Controller, follow these steps:
Performing this procedure destroys all data stored on the MARS Appliance.
Caution
Before You Begin
• You must provide the license file during the initial configuration following the re-image operation.
• Before you can re-image a Global Controller, you must purge the data that the Global Controller
pushed down to the Local Controllers that it monitors. For each Local Controller that is monitored
by the Global Controller that you want to recover, execute the following command at the command
line interface of each Local Controller.
pnreset -g
This command clears the global inspection rules and user accounts from the Local Controller, which
prepares it to be managed by the re-imaged Global Controller. However, it does not remove the
global user groups; instead they are renamed (appended with a date) and converted to local user
groups. You can edit or delete these empty groups after the reset. Because user groups are often used
as recipients for rule notifications, they are not deleted to avoid invalidating the Action definition of
such rules.
After you have executed the pnreset -g command on each Local Controller as described in
Step 1
Begin, page
PS/2 keyboard port. (To view a diagram of the MARS Appliance VGA and serial ports, refer to the
appropriate model in
page 1-4.)
Disconnect any connected network cables from the eth0 and eth1 ports.
Step 2
Put the Recovery DVD in the MARS Appliance DVD-ROM drive.
Step 3
Do one of the following:
Step 4
Log in to the MARS Appliance as pnadmin and reboot the system using the reboot command
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Power cycle the MARS Appliance
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Result: The following message displays on the console:
Please Choose A MARS Model To Install...
1. Distributed Mars - Local Controller
3. Mars Operating System Recovery
4. Quit
Using the arrow keys, select 2. Distributed MARS — Global Controller at the Recover menu and press
Step 5
Enter.
Result: The image download to the appliance begins. After the image download is complete, the
Recovery DVD is ejected and the following message appears on the console:
Please remove the installation DVD and press Reboot to finish the installation.
Remove the Recovery DVD from the MARS Appliance.
Step 6
Press Enter to restart the MARS Appliance.
Step 7
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