SevOne Data Insight 3.

11 Pre-Installation Guide
07 July 2022
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Table of Contents
1 About 2
2 Introduction 3
2.1 Dependencies 3
2.2 Private IP Address Ranges 3
2.3 SevOne NMS Requirements 3

3 Overview 5
3.1 Deploy Appliance 5
3.2 Deploy OVA 7
3.3 Deploy on AWS 13
3.4 Deploy on Azure 14

4 Login Credentials & Password Change 15

5 Configure Network Settings 16
5.1 Set Chrony (NTP Servers) and SNMP 20

6 Pre-Deployment Checklist 22
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1 About

 IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ BEFORE CONTINUING WITH THE INSTALLATION

As of SevOne Data Insight 3.5 release, the operating system has been changed from Red Hat Enterprise Linux
(RHEL) to CentOS 7. You will not be able to rollback the operating system once you install SevOne Data Insight 3.5 or
higher version.

 Warning# 1
SevOne Data Insight depends on SevOne NMS to generate the reports. It is very important that resource names in SevOne
NMS that are being used by SevOne Data Insight are NOT changed. Changing the resource names will break the reports
that are dependent on them.

 Warning# 2
New installation of SevOne Data Insight can be performed by only using .iso / .ova that is the matching version of SevOne
Data Insight. Using an older version of the .iso / .ova file to provision a newer version of SevOne Data Insight is not
supported due to minimum platform dependencies requirements.

 Please do not run sevone-cli command from a subdirectory under /opt/SevOne/upgrade. It can be run from any directory
except for from subdirectories under /opt/SevOne/upgrade.

 RADIUS is currently not supported due to REST API limitations.

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2 Introduction
This document describes the steps to deploy SevOne Data Insight. There are two options to provision SevOne Data Insight.
• Deploy Appliance - is Appliance-based installation and deployment of the SevOne Data Insight appliance.
• Deploy OVA - deploys the SevOne Data Insight .ova on your own Linux machines using VMware.

 Please refer to the details and Pre-Deployment Checklist in this document before proceeding with the initial provisioning
or upgrade of SevOne Data Insight.

2.1 Dependencies
The following table lists the minimum versions required for third-party packages prior to the deployment of SevOne Data Insight 3.11.

Third-party for Upgrades for New Provisioning Commands to check version

Packages

Helm 3.5.4 3.5.4

$ helm version

Kubernetes 1.21.4 1.21.4

$ kubectl version o --short

2.2 Private IP Address Ranges

These are the default IP Ranges used for standard deployment. If there is a conflict with the flannel CNI (Container Network Interface)
IP Range, you will need to customize your deployment.

 If the SevOne Data Insight Virtual Machine or Appliance that you are provisioning conflicts with any of the IP ranges listed
below, you will need to customize your deployment. For IP Range Conflicts, please refer to SevOne Data Insight 3.11
Administration Guide > section Use-Cases > subsection IP Range Conflicts for both fresh provisioning and existing clusters.

Flag Description IP Address IP Range

--cluster-cidr Pod IP addresses 192.168.80.0/20 192.168.80.0.0 - 192.168.95.255

--service-cidr Service IP addresses 192.168.96.0/20 192.168.96.0 - 192.168.111.255

--cluster-dns Cluster DNS 192.168.96.10 n/a

(must be in Service's range)

Please refer to SevOne Data Insight 3.11 User Guide for information on using SevOne Data Insight and the SevOne Data Insight
3.11 Administration Guide for information about administrative features.

2.3 SevOne NMS Requirements

• An NMS cluster or appliance running version 5.7.2.x.
• (Optional) A SevOne NMS User Role created for SevOne Data Insight users. You can set up a user role if you would like to
specify which users have access to SevOne Data Insight. If this is not done then, all SevOne NMS users will have access to
SevOne Data Insight as report consumers. For more information on creating user roles and assigning users to user roles,
please refer to topic User Role Manager in SevOne NMS 5.7 System Administration Guide. Role ID can be obtained from REST

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API's swaggerUI. For additional details, please refer to SevOne Data Insight 3.11 Deployment Guide > Configure SevOne Data
Insight, section Obtain User Role ID.

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3 Overview
The appliance-based installation is very similar to the installation based on deploying an .ova to your own Linux machine. The
following is an overview of each approach as well as the upgrade process.

3.1 Deploy Appliance

Perform the following steps to set up your SevOne Data Insight appliance. Repeat the steps for each Data Insight appliance.
These steps don't apply if you are deploying SevOne Data Insight .ova to your own Linux machines.
1. Unpack your Data Insight appliance and identify each item.
• Rail Kit
• Cable Management Arm (CMA) Kit
• Faceplate/Bezel
• Power Cords
• SevOne NMS Appliance
2. Install the appliance into a computer cabinet/rack. See the Rack Installation Instructions booklet located in the Rail Kit box.
Note: You will install the faceplate/bezel in a later step.
3. Connect a keyboard and a monitor to the SevOne NMS appliance. Typically you use the connections on the front of the
appliance although you can use the connections on the back of the appliance.
Note: If you connect two monitors, only the monitor you connect to the front of the appliance displays.
4. Connect the network RJ45 cable to port eth0 on the back of the appliance.
5. Plug in all applicable power cords: two cords for appliance (second for redundancy) one for monitor.
Note: A green light flashes on the back and the network port light flashes but you have yet to power on the appliance.
6. Press the Power button located on the top left-hand corner on the front of the appliance to power on your SevOne Data
Insight appliance and power on the monitor.
7. Appliance front view.

Item Ports, Panels, & Slots Icon Description

1. Left Control Panel N/A Contains the system health and system ID, status LED, and the iDRAC
Quick Sync 2 (wireless) indicator.
The iDRAC Quick Sync 2 indicator is available only on certain
configurations.
Status LED: Enables you to identify any failed hardware components.
There are up to five status LEDs and an overall system health LED
(Chassis health and system ID) bar.
Quick Sync 2 (wireless): Indicates a Quick Sync enabled system. The
Quick Sync feature is optional. This feature allows management of the
system by using mobile devices. This feature aggregates hardware or
firmware inventory and various system level diagnostic and error
information that can be used in troubleshooting the system. For more
information, see the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller User’s
Guide at
Dell.com/poweredgemanuals.

2. Drive Slots N/A Enable you to install drives that are supported on your system.

3. VGA Port Enables you to connect a display device to the system. 

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Item Ports, Panels, & Slots Icon Description

4. Right Control Panel N/A Contains the power button, USB port, iDRAC Direct micro port, and the
iDRAC Direct status LED.

5. Information Tag N/A The Information Tag is a slide-out label panel that contains system
information such as Service Tag, NIC, MAC address, and so on.
8. Appliance rear view.

Item Ports, Panels, & Slots Icon Description

1. PCIe expansion card slot(3) N/A The expansion slot(s) enable you to connect PCI Express expansion
cards. If you have purchased an add-on NIC, it will be installed here.

2. Power supply unit (2) N/A Power supply.

3. NIC port (4) The NIC ports that are integrated on the network daughter card (NDC)
provide network connectivity. eth0 will be the left-most port.

4. USB 3.0 port (2) The USB ports are 9-pin and 3.0-compliant. These ports enable you to
connect USB devices to the system.

5. VGA port Enables you to connect a display device to the system.

6. Serial port Enables you to connect a serial device to the system.

7. iDRAC9 dedicated network Use the iDRAC9 dedicated network port to securely access the
port embedded iDRAC on a separate management network, see
the Dell.com/poweredgemanuals

8. System status indicator N/A Enables you to connect the status indicator cable and view system
cable port status when the CMA is installed.

9. System identification The System Identification (ID) button is available on the front and back
button of the systems. Press the button to identify a system in a rack by turning
on the system ID button. You can also use the system ID button to reset
iDRAC and to access BIOS using the step through mode.
9. Wait as the following messages appear when the appliance powers on(~ 3 minutes).
a. Configure Memory
b. BIOS Revision
c. Select "Install SevOne DataInsight v3.11.0"
10. When the console prompt appears, enter localhost login/password as sevone/sevone. 
11. Continue to the section Login Credentials & Password Change.

 IMPORTANT
Failure to change the default password presents a significant security risk. This publication includes a default
password and this document has probably been made available to the public.

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3.2 Deploy OVA

The steps in this section cover SevOne Data Insight .ova deployment process. You will need to deploy SevOne Data Insight .ova if you
are not using a SevOne Data Insight appliance. Deploy the .ova on each Linux machine you plan to install Data Insight on. You will
need to deploy the .ova when installing SevOne Data Insight on your own Linux machines (not using a SevOne Data Insight
appliance).

 If you have a SevOne Data Insight appliance, skip this section. The .ova is not necessary for appliance-based installations.
Please proceed to Configure Network Settings section.

3.2.1 Save OVA

1. Please contact SevOne Production Team for SevOne Data Insight .ova file.
2. Save the .ova to a folder on your server.

3.2.2 VMware Implementation
1. Open your VMware vSphere Client.

 Your pages may vary from the screenshots in the steps below.

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2. Login to your VMware vSphere Client to display the vSphere Client.

3. Right-click on your folder for example, SDI-DOC, and select Deploy OVF Template...

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4. Enter the URL or the browse for your Local file (.ova file saved locally).

5. Click NEXT.
6. Enter the Virtual machine name you want to create. For example, sdi-v3.11.0, and choose the location where you want to
create your virtual machine. For example, SDI-DOC.

7. Click NEXT.

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8. Select the destination compute resource. For example, QA.

9. Click NEXT.
10. Review the template details and click NEXT.
11. Select the storage for the configuration and disk files. 
a. From Select virtual disk format drop-down, choose Thin Provision. This is only an example. 

 Each virtual machine must have the ability to grow up to 250 GB. Please make sure the virtual disk format
for your virtual machine can accommodate the 250 GB requirement.

b. Select the storage. For example, QA-Pure.

12. Click NEXT.

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13. For the Source Network, select the Destination Network. For example, dev-dhcp-VL2808.

14. Click NEXT.

15. You are now ready to create your Virtual Machine. Check the details and click FINISH.

 This will take a few minutes.

16. You are now ready to power on your Virtual Machine. From ACTIONS drop-down, select Power > Power On.

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 This will take a few minutes. An IP address will be assigned to the Virtual Machine created.

17. After deploying the .ova, click Launch Web Console to manually configure the network settings.

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 Optional
Virtual Machine with DNS Name = sevonek8s and IP Address = 10.128.10.192 has been created. You may change
the name of your virtual machine by executing the following steps.

$ ssh sevone@<virtual machine IP address or hostname>

$ sudo hostnamectl set-hostname "<enter hostname>"

Example

$ ssh sevone@10.128.10.192

$ sudo hostnamectl set-hostname "sdi-node01"

After resetting the hostname, log out and log back in for it to take effect.

18. Please proceed to Configure Network Settings section.

3.3 Deploy on AWS

3.3.1 AWS Instance Types for SevOne Data Insight

License AWS Instance Primary Disk Data Disk
Type (GiB) (GiB)

SevOne Data Insight m5.2xlarge 250 n/a

SevOne Data Insight Virtual Appliance Images for AWS are available from http://cloudimages-www.s3-website-us-
east-1.amazonaws.com/. Please refer to SevOne Data Platform Deployment on Amazon Web Services guide for details on how to
perform the deployment.

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 The root disk should be 250 GiB for SevOne Data Insight as shown in AWS Instance Types for SevOne Data Insight table
above.

Please refer to SevOne Data Insight 3.11 Deployment Guide for details to access the new instance via SSH.

3.4 Deploy on Azure

3.4.1 Azure Instance Types for SevOne Data Insight

License Azure Instance Primary Disk Data Disk
Type (GiB) (GiB)

SevOne Data Insight Standard_D8s_v3 250 n/a

SevOne Data Insight Virtual Appliance Images for Azure are available from http://cloudimages-www.s3-website-us-
east-1.amazonaws.com/. Please refer to SevOne Data Platform Deployment on Microsoft Azure guide for details on how to perform
the deployment.

 The root disk should be 250 GiB for SevOne Data Insight as shown in Azure Instance Types for SevOne Data Insight table
above.

Please refer to SevOne Data Insight 3.11 Deployment Guide for details to access the new instance via SSH.

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4 Login Credentials & Password Change

To perform SevOne Data Insight installation process, you will need to SSH into your machines using non-root credentials for the
user sevone. Before continuing, you will need to SSH into each machine that you plan to run Data Insight on and change the default
password for this user. This applies whether you are using a Data Insight appliance or have deployed an .ova. You will need to do this
for all nodes (master and all worker nodes). This is important for security reasons.

 If you are performing an appliance-based installation (instead of deploying an .ova), you will need to perform the steps
below after configuring the network (see section Configure Network Settings).

 IMPORTANT
Failure to change the default password presents a significant security risk. This publication includes a default password
and this document has probably been made available to the public.

1. SSH into your SevOne Data Insight machine and log in as sevone.
2. At the Password prompt, enter sevone.
3. Execute the following command:

$ passwd

4. At the prompt New password, enter a new password for the sevone user.

5. At the prompt Retype new password, enter the new password again.
6. Repeat the steps above for each machine that you plan to run SevOne Data Insight on.

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5 Configure Network Settings

 If you see the following when deploying SevOne Data Insight .ova file on your Linux machine, login as sevone and
password, sevone.

 It is important to change the default password. Please follow the steps in Login Credentials & Password Change to change
the password.

Perform the following steps to configure the network settings manually.

1. Execute the following commands to display the NetworkManager TUI.

 IMPORTANT
A working DNS configuration is a requirement for any SevOne Data Insight deployment. Otherwise, SevOne Data
Insight will not work.
Please refer to SevOne Data Insight 3.11 Administration Guide > Troubleshooting > section Domain Name
Resolution (DNS) not working for details.

$ sudo -i
$ nmtui

2. At the prompt [sudo] password for sevone:, enter the password for the sevone user.

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3. Select Edit a connection.

4. Select the Ethernet interface (not the Docker Bridge).

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5. Select <Edit...>.

6. Go to IPv4 CONFIGURATION and change <Automatic> to <Manual>.

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7. Select <Show> for IPv4 CONFIGURATION.

8. Configure the following settings for IPv4 CONFIGURATION as well as any other settings relevant to your network.
• Addresses
• Gateway
• DNS servers
• Search domains
9. Confirm that the following options are selected.
• Automatically connect
• Available to all users
10. Click OK.

5.1 Set Chrony (NTP Servers) and SNMP

1. Change directory to /opt/SevOne/upgrade/ansible/playbooks/.

$ cd /opt/SevOne/upgrade/ansible/playbooks/

2. Copy chrony.example.conf and snmpd.example.conf files.

$ cp /etc/chrony.example.conf /etc/chrony.conf
$ cp /etc/snmp/snmpd.example.conf /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf

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3. Using a text editor of your choice, edit /etc/chrony.conf and/or /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf files to customize your configuration
settings.
4. After all configuration changes are complete, run up.yaml for the configuration settings to take effect.

$ sevone-cli playbook up

 SevOne recommends you to discover each new appliance from SevOne NMS using the SNMP community strings.

Now that you have deployed SevOne Data Insight .ova, you are ready to initialize Data Insight. Please refer to SevOne Data Insight
3.11 Deployment Guide.

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6 Pre-Deployment Checklist
Please ensure that you have reviewed the pre-deployment checklist below before proceeding with SevOne Data Insight provisioning
or upgrade.
SSH into your SevOne Data Insight machine and log in as sevone to execute the commands in the checklist.

$ ssh sevone@<IP address or hostname for SevOne Data Insight>

Question Description / Command(s)

1. Verify the minimum version Please refer to Dependencies section above.

requirements for the third-
party packages.

2. Are there any IP conflicts? Please refer to Private IP Address Ranges section for details on IP-ranges.

3. What are the deployment Please refer to Release Notes SevOne Data Insight 3.11 > section Deployment
recommendations for Recommendation for details.
production and non-
production environments?

4. What are the installer and Please contact SevOne Production Team for the latest file(s).
checksum filenames?
For example, sdi-v3.11.0-build.69.tgz or sdi-v3.11.0-build.69.tgz.sha256.txt files.

Example

Installer file

$ ls -l /opt/SevOne/upgrade/sdi-v3.11.0-build.69.tgz
 
$ md5sum /opt/SevOne/upgrade/sdi-v3.11.0-build.69.tgz

Checksum file

$ ls -l /opt/SevOne/upgrade/sdi-v3.11.0-build.69.tgz.sha256.txt
 
$ md5sum /opt/SevOne/upgrade/sdi-v3.11.0-build.69.tgz.sha256.txt

 Checksum applies to upgrades only.

For example, if upgrading from SevOne Data Insight <= 3.4.1 to SevOne
Data Insight 3.11, the checksum file will be available from /opt/SevOne/
upgrade.

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Question Description / Command(s)

5. If you are performing an If yes, please schedule a session with the Solutions Team to upgrade the Solutions
upgrade, are there Solutions widgets.
widgets?

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