Juniper NETWORK AND SECURITY MANAGER NSMXPRESS SERIES II - QUICK START REV1, NETWORK AND SECURITY MANAGER NSMXPRESS SERIES II Quick Start Manual

Network and Security Manager
NSMXpress Series II Quick Start

November 17, 2010
Revision 1

NSMXpress Series II is an appliance version of Network and Security Manager (NSM).
NSMXpress Series II simplifies the complexity of network administration by providing a
single, integrated management interface that controls device parameters.

This robust hardware management system installs in minutes with full high availability
(HA) support, making it easy to scale and deploy. Enterprise customers with limited
resources can benefit significantly from NSMXpress Series II because it eliminates the
need to have dedicated resources for maintaining a network and security management
solution.

NSMXpress Series II makes it easy for administrators to control device configuration,
network settings, and security policy settings for multiple families of Juniper devices
including:

•

IDP Series Intrusion Detection and PreventionAppliances and Firewall and VPN devices
running ScreenOS

•

Devices running Junos OS, such as J Series Services Routers, SRX Series Services
Gateways, EX Series Ethernet Switches, M Series Multiservice Edge Routers, and MX
Series Ethernet Services routers

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SA Series SSL VPN Appliances

•

IC Series Unified Access Control Appliances

For a complete list of supported device families and platforms, see the Network and
Security Manager Administration Guide.

Up to 10 administrators can log into NSMXpress Series II concurrently.

This quick start explains the following steps for installing and configuring NSMXpress
Series II and for configuring NSM.

1. Install the NSMXpress Series II appliance hardware.

2. Set up the NSMXpress Series II appliance using the serial port.

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3. Configure the NSMXpress Series II software using the Web interface.

4. Configure the NSM software which is preinstalled onto the NSMXpress Series II

appliance, with site-specific parameters.

Contents

Hardware Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

NSMXpress Series II Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Installing the Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Initial Setup Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Boot NSMXpress Series II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Set Up Your Appliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Web Interface Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Configuring the NSM Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Configuring Basic Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Configuring High Availability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Advanced Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Enabling and Configuring Remote Replication of the Database . . . . . . . 16

Enabling and Configuring SRS (Regional Server Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Installing NSM Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Managing NSM Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Changing the Superuser Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Downloading NSM MIBS (Regional Server Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Exporting Audit Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Exporting Device Logs (Regional Server Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Generating Reports (Regional Server Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Modifying NSM Configuration Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Backing Up the NSM Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Changing the NSM Management IP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Scheduling Security Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Managing System Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Rebooting or Shutting Down NSMXpress Series II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Changing the User Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Configuring the Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Network Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Routing and Gateways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Hostname and DNS Clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Host Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Managing RADIUS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Adding a RADIUS Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Changing the Priority of RADIUS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Deleting a RADIUS Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Editing RADIUS Server Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Monitoring with SNMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

SNMP Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

SNMP System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

SNMP Trap Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

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Forwarding Syslog Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Viewing Syslog Receivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Adding and Configuring Syslog Receivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Editing Syslog Receiver Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Deleting Syslog Receivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Changing the System Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Installing Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Managing Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Creating New NSMXpress Series II Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Deleting a User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Editing User Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Understanding User Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Configuring the Web Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Maintaining NSMXpress Series II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Viewing System Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

CPU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Log Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

CPU Load . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Memory Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Network Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Process Count . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Disk Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Tile All Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Upgrading the Recovery Partition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Auditing User Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Error Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Network Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Ping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Traceroute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Lookup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

IP Subnet Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Tech Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Viewing System Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Rack-Mounting the NSMXpress Series II Appliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Front-Mounting Flush to Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Front-Mounting Recessed in Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Front-Rear-Mounting Flush to Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Front-Rear- Mounting Recessed in Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Mid-Mount in Two Post Equipment Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

List of Technical Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Requesting Technical Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Self-Help Online Tools and Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Opening a Case with JTAC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Revision History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

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Hardware Installation

We recommend that you install NSMXpress Series II on your LAN to ensure that it can
communicate with your applicableresources, such asauthentication servers, DNSservers,
internal Web servers through HTTP/HTTPS, external Web sites through HTTP/HTTPS
(optional), the Juniper update server via HTTP, Network File System (NFS) file servers
(optional), and client/server applications (optional).

NSMXpress Series II Ports

Table 1 on page 4 provides required port information on the NSMXpress Series II.

Table 1: Required Ports on NSMXpress Series II

NOTE: If you decide to install NSMXpress Series II in your DMZ, ensure that
it can connect to your internal resources.

443

8443

7800

7801

7802

7803

7804

Depends on
ConfigurationInternetLANDescriptionPortDirection

NoNoYesSSH command-line management22In

NoNoYesWeb interface for administrator

login

YesYesLANWebinterfacefor listening for NSM

API messages.

NoYesYesConnections from managed

devices to NSMXpress Series II

NoNoYesConnections from the NSM GUI

Client to NSM

YesNoYesHeartbeat between peers in an HA

cluster

YesYesYesConnections from managed IDP

devices to NSM

YesYesYesConnections from devices running
Junos , Secure Access devices, or
Infranet Controller devices

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Table 1: Required Ports on NSMXpress Series II (continued)

Depends on

ConfigurationInternetLANDescriptionPortDirection

For more information on ports, refer to the Network and Security Manager Installation
Guide.

Installing the Hardware

Follow these steps to unpack the NSMXpress Series II appliance and connect it to your
network.

22Out

23

80

123

NoYesYesSSH connection to new managed
device

YesNoYesTelnet connection to new
managed device

NoNoYesDNS lookups53

YesYesNoSystem Security Updates from
Juniper Networks

YesNoYesShared Disk portmap lookup111

YesYesYesNetworkTime Protocol (NTP) time
synchronization

YesNoYesShared Disk NFS connection2049

To install NSMXpress Series II:

1. Place the shipping container on a flat surface and remove the hardware components

with care.

2. Remove the NSMXpress Series II device from the shipping container and place it on

a flat surface.

3. Mount NSMXpress Series II in your server rack using the attached mounting brackets.

4. Plug the power cord into the AC receptacle on the rear panel.

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Power
supply

AC Power
supply
receptacle

AC Power Blank power

supply tray

switch

Fan 0 Fan 1

CONSOLE ETH1 ETH0

g040404

Power

LED

Hardware

LED

Hard disk LED

Left
LAN
LED

Right
LAN
LED

NSMXpress II

Hard disk

Activity LED

Hard disk
Failure LED

Network ports

Console
port

USB
maintenance
port

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Figure 1: Rear Panel of NSMXpress Series II

If your NSMXpress Series II contains two power supplies, plug a power cord into each
AC receptacle.

5. Plug the other end of the power cord into a wall socket.

If your NSMXpress Series II contains two power supplies, plug each power cord into
a separate power circuit to ensure that the NSMXpress Series II continues to receive
power if one of the power circuits fails.

6. Plug the Ethernet cable into the network port marked ETH0 on the front panel. See

Figure 2 on page 6.

Figure 2: Front Panel of NSMXpress Series II

7. Plug the console cable with the DB9 to RJ45 adapter into the console port. See Figure

2 on page 6.

This cable was shipped with your NSMXpress Series II. See Table 3 on page 7

8. Push the power button on the rear panel. See Figure 1 on page 6

The green LED on the bottom left corner of the front panel turns on. The NSMXpress
Series II hard disk LED turns on wheneverthe appliance reads data from or writes data
to an NSMXpress Series II hard disk.

The internal port uses two LEDs to indicate the LAN connection status, which is
described in Table 2 on page 7.

Hardware installation is now complete. The next step is to set up the software, as
described in “Initial Setup Configuration” on page 7.

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Initial Setup Configuration

Table 2 on page 7 provides LED information for the ETH0 and ETH1 ports.

Table 2: Ethernet Port LEDs

LED2LED 1LAN Status

OffOff10 Mbps connection

OffGreen100 Mbps connection

OffOrange1000 Mbps connection

BlinkingOrange, Green, or OffData is being transferred

OffOffNo connection

Table 3 on page 7 provides RJ-45 Console Connector Pinout information.

Table 3: RJ-45 Console Connector Pinout

Initial Setup Configuration

When you first turn on an unconfigured NSMXpress Series II appliance, you need to enter
basic network and machine information through the serial console to make your appliance
accessible to the network. After entering these settings, you can continue configuring
the appliance using the CLI or the Web interface. You are not prompted for the initial
setup information again.

DescriptionSignalPin

Request to SendRTS Output1

Data Terminal ReadyDTR Output2

Transmit DataTxD Output3

Chassis GroundGND4

Chassis GroundGND5

Receive DataRxD Input6

Data Set ReadyDSR Input7

Clear to SendCTS Input8

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This section describes the required serial console setup and the tasks you need to perform
when connecting to your NSMXpress Series II for the first time:

•

Boot NSMXpress Series II on page 8

•

Set Up Your Appliance on page 8

Boot NSMXpress Series II

To configure NSMXpress Series II for the first time, you must attach your NSMXpress
Series II appliance to a console terminal running an emulation utility such as
HyperTerminal.

1. Configure a console terminal or terminal emulation utility to use the following serial

connection parameters:

•

9600 bits per second

•

8-bit no parity (8N1)

•

1 stop bit

Set Up Your Appliance

•

No flow control

2. Connect the terminal or laptop to the null modem serial cable plugged into the

NSMXpress Series II console port.

3. Turn on the NSMXpress Series II appliance.

When NSMXpress Series II is powered on, the serial console displays diagnostic
information before proceeding to the boot countdown. When complete, the serial
console displays the login prompt terminal emulator.

NSMXpress.juniper.net login:

4. Enter admin as your default login name.

5. Enter abc123 as your default password.

6. Change your default password when prompted. Enter the default password first,

followed by your new password. All passwords are case-sensitive.

This section provides the minimum informationnecessary to make your appliance active
on the network.

To set up your appliance either as a regional server or a central manager, follow these
steps:

1. Enter the IP address for interface eth0 and press Enter.

2. Enter the subnet mask for interface eth0 and press Enter.

3. Enter the default route or default gateway address for interface eth0 and press Enter.

Applying changes...
Re-loading database
ip_tables: (C) 2000–2002 Netfilter core team

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ip_tables: (C) 2000–2002 Netfilter core team
ip_tables: (C) 2000–2002 Netfileter core team
Done!

Your NSMXpress is now active on the network.
To configure your system via a web browser, connect to:
https://10.150.43.205/admin

To configure your system via command line, type:
nsm_setup

For operation of NSM server, switch to user “nsm”.
Please consult NSM product documentation for details.

[admin@NSMXpress ~]$

To configure the NSM software using the CLI, see the NSMXpress and NSM 3000 User
Guide. To configure the NSM software using the Web interface, go to “Web Interface

Configuration” on page 9.

Web Interface Configuration

To configure NSM on your system from a Web interface, use the following steps.

1. Copy the URL (starting with https://) from the terminal emulator after installing

NSMXpress:

Your NSMXpress is now active on the network.
To configure your system via a web browser, connect to:
https//10.150.43.205/administration

2. Open a Web browser and paste the URL into the address text box.

3. Press Enter to open the NSMXpress Series II login page.

4. Enter the admin user name and password and then click Login.

5. See “Configuring the NSM Software” on page 9 for details about how to install and

configure NSM on your NSMXpress Series II appliance from the Web interface.

Configuring the NSM Software

After logging in as an ‘admin’ user, an initial setup script walks you through additional
configurationsystemsettings before finalizing the NSM installation. This chapter describes
that setup process.

Your NSMXpress Series II appliance comes preconfigured as a regional server or a central
manager. Most installation and configuration steps in this section are identical for both
types of server. All exceptions are noted.

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NSMXpress Quick Start

After logging into the NSMXpress Series II Web interface, NSMXpress Series II provides
you with the following installation options:

•

Configuring Basic Settings on page 10

•

Configuring High Availability on page 12

•

Advanced Options on page 15

•

Installing NSM Software on page 18

Configuring Basic Settings

To install the regional server or central manager software using the minimum
requirements:

1. Install your NSMXpress Series II hardware as described in “Hardware Installation” on

page 4.

2. Boot and setup your NSMXpress Series II appliance as described in “Initial Setup

Configuration” on page 7.

3. Enter the https://<ip>/administration URL for your appliance in a Web browser. See

“Web Interface Configuration” on page 9 for details.

4. Log into the Web interface. The System Info page opens.

5. Click the link Install NSM Regional Server (see Figure 3 on page 11) to go to the Install

Regional Server window or click the Install NSM Central Manager link to view the Install
NSM Central Manager window (see Figure 4 on page 11), as the case may be.

NOTE: The “admin” user default username is admin and the password is

the one you created in Step 6 of “Boot NSMXpress Series II” on page 8.

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Figure 3: Regional Server Configuration Main Menu

Configuring the NSM Software

Figure 4: Central Manager Configuration Main Menu

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6. Enter the primary IP address of your management server for eth0 (the default).

You can use the default IP address next to the first radio button or select the second
radio button and then enter a different IP address. Each IP address you add (in addition
to the default IP address) will be available in the drop-down list after you click the
second radio button.

7. Enter the NSM superuser password in the top text box, and then reenter it in the text

box below it.

This password must be at least eight characters long and is case-sensitive. This
password is used by the NSM superuser (also referred to as the NSM administrator).
This user has the highest level of privileges in NSM.

8. Enter the GUI Server one-time password in the top text box, and then reenter it in the

text box below it. This password is used to authenticate this NSM server with other
NSM servers with which it communicates. Regional servers use this password to
authenticate peer servers in an HA configuration and to authenticate the central
manager. The central manager uses this password to authenticate its peer server in
an HA configuration and any regional servers it manages. NSM servers must have the
same GUI Server one-time password, or the authentication will fail.

9. Select the license option. (This option is available only for regional servers.)

a. Select Base Install to use the built-in limited device license for as many as 25

devices.

b. Click Upload license file to upload the license file you generated using the Juniper

License Management System (LMS), which permits you to manage more than 25
devices. This license file must be located on your local hard drive.

See the Network and Security Manager installationGuide for more information about
NSM licensing.

10. Click Submit to save any changes, and then click Install to install the software.

Configuring High Availability

To configure high availability (HA) settings:

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Configuring the NSM Software

1. On the NSM Configuration Main Menu, click Menu next to High Availability to access

HA options. See Figure 5 on page 13.

Figure 5: High Availability Options

2. Use the High Availability option to turn HA on (y) or off (n). The default is off.

3. Use the Primary Status option to set your NSMXpress Series II appliance as either the

primary or secondary server in the HA cluster. If you select y, it is the primary server
(the default). If you select n, it is the secondary server.

4. Use the HA Remote IP option to enter the IP address for the HA peer in the HA cluster.

5. Use the HA Link Failure Detection IP option to enter the IP address of a computer

outside the HA cluster that you can ping to verify connection status.

6. Use the HA Inter-serverpasswordoption to enter the heartbeatpasswordused between

the primary and secondary servers.

7. Click Submit to save the changes.

8. Click Menu next to Shared Disk (see Figure 5 on page 13) to configure a shared disk

for regional servers (see Figure 6 on page 14) or for central managers (see Figure 7
on page 14). This step is optional.

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Figure 6: Shared Disk Options for Regional Servers

Figure 7: Shared Disk Options for Central Managers

NSMXpress Series II supports shared disk via NFS only. Due to the data-intensive
nature of NSM, we recommend gigabit speed links (1000 Mbps) for shared disk use.
For more information about custom settings, refer to the Network and Security Manager
Installation Guide.

9. Click Menu next to HA Links (see Figure 5 on page 13) to configure the second link in

the HA cluster (see Figure 8 on page 14). This step is optional.

Figure 8: HA Links Options

Use the options in this menu to set up a redundant link for the HA cluster. If you are
going to use a second link, you need to set the IP address for eth1 before configuring
this setting (see “Configuring the Network” on page 24 for details). Setting a redundant
link is optional. For more information about custom settings, refer to the Network and
Security Manager Installation Guide.

If you configure HA with just one heartbeat link, then device management traffic and
data replication traffic both use that link. If you configure two links, device management
traffic uses the first link and data replication uses the second.

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If you set the HA link count to 2, an expanded menu appears to configure the second
link:

Figure 9: Redundant Links

10. Click Menu next to HA Advanced Settings (see Figure 5 on page 13) to configure HA

advanced settings (see Figure 10 on page 15). This step is optional.

For more information about custom settings, refer to the Network and Security Manager
Installation Guide.

Advanced Options

Figure 10: HA Advanced Settings

11. Click Submit to save the HA options and return to the NSM Configuration Main Menu.

To display the Advanced Options menu, on the NSM Configuration Main Menu, select
Menu next to Advanced Options. The Advanced Options menu appears as shown in
Figure 11 on page 15.

Figure 11: Advanced Options Menu

Advanced installation options include:

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https port for NBI service—Allows you to configure a port to listen for messages for the
NSM API. By default, this value is 8443. You can configure it to any port number from
1025 to 65535.

•

Remote Replication of Database—Mirrors the daily backup to an external server. You
can toggle it on or off. After you turn it on, use the menu options to configure this option.

•

SRS Enabled Options (regional server only)—Opens a menu to enable and configure
the Statistical Report Server (SRS). These options enable NSMXpress Series II to
interface with SRS. You can toggle it on or off. When it is on, a menu with additional
options is available.

NOTE: SRS must be installed on a separate server from NSM.

The following sections provide details about the remote replication and SRS options:

•

Enabling and Configuring Remote Replication of the Database on page 16

•

Enabling and Configuring SRS (Regional Server Only) on page 17

Enabling and Configuring Remote Replication of the Database

To configure remote replication of database settings:

1. On the Advanced Options menu, click Menu next to Remote Replication of Database

(see Figure 5 on page 13) to configure daily backups (see Figure 12 on page 16).

Figure 12: Remote Replication of Database Options

2. Use the Remote Replication of Database option to turn remote replication on (y) or

off (n). The default is off.

3. Use the Hour of day to Replicate Database option to start the backup. The valid range

(in hours) is 00 through 23. The default is 2 AM.

4. Use the Remote Backup IP option to enter the IP address of the remote backup server.

Backup information is copied to the /var/netscreen/dbbackup directory on the remote
server. The “nsm” user must exist on both servers and you must establish an SSH trust
relationship. See the Network and Security Manager Installation Guide, for details.

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5. Use the Remote Replication Timeout option to set up a timeout for Rsync. The valid

range (in seconds) is 1-65535. The default is 1800 seconds.

6. Click Submit to save the options and return to the main menu or continue with the

other advanced installation options.

Enabling and Configuring SRS (Regional Server Only)

This option is not available on a central manager. To configure statistical report server
(SRS) settings:

1. On the Advanced Options menu, click Menu next to SRS (see Figure 5 on page 13) to

open the SRS menu (see Figure 13 on page 17).

Figure 13: SRS Menu

2. Use the SRS options to turn SRS on (y) or off (n). The default is off. If you turn on this

feature, the server is used with the GUI server.

3. Use the SRS DB IP option to enter the IP address for the server on which you have

installed the SRS database server.

4. Use the SRS DB Type option to select the database type. The values are pgsql (the

default), oracle, or mssql.

5. Use the SRS Database Name option to enter the name of the SRS database. The

default value is netscreen. To enter another name, click the radio button next to the
blank text box and enter the name in the text box.

6. Use the SRS DB Owner Name option to enter the owner’s name of the SRS database.

The default value is netscreen. To enter another name, click the radio button next to
the blank text box and enter the name in the text box.

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