Netmanage Bootstrap

Use the contents of this repo to bootstrap or upgrade an instance of NetManage. For now the virtual machine(s) must be running a variant of RHEL (RHEL, CentOS, etc).

If you'd like to quickly demo NetManage, the Vagrant install option will get an instance of NetManage, infrastructure and application, up and running quickly.

Setup

Pre install/upgrade

Edit group_vars/all to your liking
If upgrading, take a backup of your database with mysqldump -u <user> -p netmanage > netmanage.sql and store this somewhere safe.

Install/upgrade

Option 1 - Vagrant:

Fast and easy, use Vagrant to setup a single multi-function (app and db) instance for hosting NetManage. The included Vagrantfile will configure the instance with a public interface (bridged) which is typically required to accept incoming connections such as log messages and tftp uploads.

Option 2 - Ansible:

Use Ansible and the included configuration to setup a single multi-function instance, or separate application and database instances.

Edit hosts if you'd like to use separate servers for hosting the application and database.
Install the EPEL repo rpm -i http://fedora-epel.mirror.lstn.net/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
Install ansible sudo yum -y install ansible
Start the orchestration ansible-playbook -i hosts site.yml

Post setup

First Install

Verify you can log into NetManage web interface using the server name (apache_server_name) you configured in group_vars/all. The default username and password is admin and netmanage.
Configure any online settings within the NetManage web interface under Settings.
Setup regular backups of the NetManage database, usually mysqldump -u app_netmanage --password=<password> netmanage > netmanage.sql, and store them in a safe location.

To Do

Figure out a better way to handle the firewall configurations
Look into a better password generation solution

JCotton1123/netmanage-bootstrap