PoC Installation - vAppliance - v2024.12

Monofor PoC installation can be done with the steps below.

Before Start Installation

Monofor products are designed to work on container architecture. Therefore, in order to download the images, it is necessary to download them from Monofor's Official Repositories. If you do not have access to the Official Repositories, the installation cannot be performed. To overcome this, you can contact Monofor Sales Engineers or authorized partners to receive support.

Monofor Virtual Appliance

Monofor has providing virtual machine which is ready for Monofor Products. If you don’t want lose any time to preparing of the linux server you can download and import your VMware Infrastructure.

Supported Virtualization Platform

Virtualization Platform	Version	Information
VMware	ESXi 7.0 U2 or newer
^*HyperV	Not Supported Yet

Monofor Virtual Appliance can be download below link

BASH

https://download.monofor.com/install/latest/monofor-vapp-latest.zip
OR
https://download.monofor.com/install/v2024.12/monofor-vapp-v2024.12.zip

MD5 - for file integrity check.

BASH

https://download.monofor.com/install/latest/monofor-vapp-latest.md5
OR
https://download.monofor.com/install/v2024.12/monofor-vapp-v2024.12.md5

File Name	Hash md5
`monofor-vapp-latest.zip`	`f7f70107a8c788bd2fbeca9686e183b4`

If you want to check hash of the monofor-vapp-latest.zip file with command line you can use below methods.

with Powershell on Windows

BASH

Get-FileHash .\monofor-vapp-latest.zip -Algorithm MD5

Algorithm       Hash                                    Path
---------       ----                                    ----
MD5             f7f70107a8c788bd2fbeca9686e183b4        C:\monofor-vapp-latest.zip

with Shell on Linux

BASH

root@monofor:/# md5sum monofor-vapp-latest.zip
f7f70107a8c788bd2fbeca9686e183b4  monofor-vapp-latest.zip

If you already downloaded md5 file you can use below example.

BASH

root@monodeb:/# md5sum -c monofor-vapp-latest.md5
monofor-vapp-latest.zip: OK

Importing vAppliance

VMware Vcenter

Monofor vAppliance will be import to VMware Vcenter. Below steps will help how to import monofor-vapp-v2023.04.ova file

Open your vcenter admin UI on your browser.

Right Click your Datacenter → Click Deploy OVF Template

Click(1) Local File and Click(2)UPLOAD FILES

Choose Monofor Virtual Appliance OVA file monofor-vapp-v2023.04.ova and click Open

You will see selected files right side of the UPLOAD FILES button then click NEXT button.

Input(1) Virtual machine name, Choose(2) location of virtual machine and click(3) NEXT.

Select(1) Compute Resource if needed and Click(2) NEXT.

Review details and Click NEXT.

Select virtual disk format(1), Choose(2) Datastore and Click(3) NEXT.

Select(1) Network and Click(2) NEXT.

Now Monofor Virtual Appliance Ready to complete. Click(1) NEXT.

After that ova file import will start. It can be follow status in Recent Tasks.

It can be verified if successfully completed in Recent Tasks.

Now you can go to Inventory & Host in Vcenter and verify imported ova machine will be there. In this example Monofor Virtual Appliance name is vapp01.monofor.com.

Before Power On virtual machine please verify hardware resources CPU, Memory, Disk and Network Mapping.

CPU	8 Core
Memory	16 GB
Disk	100 GB

Right Click of virtual machine and Click Edit Settings.

You can verify hardware resource in this menu

Right click of the virtual machine, go to Power and Click Power On the start

After virtual machine Powered On you can Click(1) LAUNCH WEB CONSOLE.

Now you can access Monofor Virtual Appliance in console mod.

Operating System Initial Configuration

Monofor Virtual Appliance has default user. After connecting via console you can able to login to server with this default user credential.

Credential Information

BASH

User     : monofor
Password : Monofor.2025!

Network Configuration

Monofor Virtual Appliance network configuration is stored /etc/network/interfaces. You can edit this file to set correct IP configuration.

Original File

Change of the IP address in this file you can edit /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/eth0.nmconnection with your text editor like vim or nano.

BASH

with vim
vi /etc/network/interfaces
OR

with nano
nano /etc/network/interfaces

We will continue to edit and save the configuration

BASH

vi /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/eth0.nmconnection

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet static
  address IPADDR/CIDR
  gateway GW
  dns-nameservers DNS1, DNS2
  dns-search SEARCH DOMAIN

You need to change IP_ADDR/CIDR,GW, DNS1,DNS2 and search domain domain.com

Example

IPADDR/CIDR	`192.168.1.55/24`
GW	`192.168.1.1`
DNS1	`192.168.1.11`
DNS2	`192.168.1.12`
SEARCH DOMAIN	`monofor.com`

Change values then save the file and reboot the virtual appliance.

Now you can access your vAppliance via SSH.

Time Zone and NTP

Change NTP

Monofor services are sensitive to time synchronization. If Linux server time is different than the client devices time this will cause an issue.

First ntp must be change on vAppliance. It can be done with editing /etc/chrony.conf file and restart chronyd.service

/etc/chrony.conf file is containing default NTP server configuration pool 0.pool.ntp.org iburst you need to change value.

Before editing:

BASH

# Use public servers from the pool.ntp.org project.
# Please consider joining the pool (https://www.pool.ntp.org/join.html).
# Add your NTP server here
# Example pool ntp.monofor.com iburst
pool 0.pool.ntp.org iburst

...

After changes done:

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# Use public servers from the pool.ntp.org project.
# Please consider joining the pool (https://www.pool.ntp.org/join.html).
# Add your NTP server here
# Example pool ntp.monofor.com iburst
pool ntp.monofor.com iburst

...

Restart NTP services:

BASH

systemctl restart chronyd.service

It can be verified with below commands

BASH

[root@monofor ~]# chronyc tracking
Reference ID    : C21BDE05 (ntp.monofor.com)
Stratum         : 2
Ref time (UTC)  : Wed May 17 13:42:03 2023
System time     : 0.000020147 seconds fast of NTP time
Last offset     : +0.000012351 seconds
RMS offset      : 0.000133759 seconds
Frequency       : 11.033 ppm slow
Residual freq   : +0.006 ppm
Skew            : 0.777 ppm
Root delay      : 0.019084107 seconds
Root dispersion : 0.002137284 seconds
Update interval : 64.4 seconds
Leap status     : Normal

Change Timezone

Timezone can be change with below command.

First you need to list timezones. This command list all of the timezones.

BASH

timedatectl list-timezones

To find the local timezone according to your location, run the following command:

BASH

timedatectl list-timezones | grep -o "America/.*" | column
timedatectl list-timezones | grep -o "Asia/.*" | column
timedatectl list-timezones | grep -o "Europe/.*" | column

Set your local timezone in vAppliance, you will use the set-timezone switch as shown below.

BASH

timedatectl set-timezone America/New_York

and it can be check with below command.

CODE

timedatectl

Now you can continue with the other requirements. Please visit this page.