Hi, In this post I showed you, how you can reset the root password. Now, I would like to show you, how you can unlock the root account in vRealize Operation 8.x.
Log into the vRealize Operations admin UI as the local admin user.
Select the desired node and click Take Node Offline/Online.
Note: If using a single node cluster, click Take Offline under Cluster Status.
In the vSphere Client, open the console of the desired node.
With the console open, restart or power on the virtual machine.
Type the letter e to go to the GNU GRUB edit menu.
When the GRUB loader menu appears, immediately use the up and down arrow keys to navigate to the end of the line that starts with Photon OS or linux for new 8.x deployments.
Add a space, then type rw init=/bin/bash which adds another option to the line.
8. Press F10.
Note: The virtual appliance starts in single-user mode.
9. To unlock the root account, open /etc/pam.d/system-auth in a text editor.
Comment out the following line by adding a # in front of it:
Log into the vRealize Operations Manager Admin UI as the local admin user.
Click Take Offline under Cluster Status.
Note: Wait for Cluster Status to show as Offline.
Copy the attached data-rc-witness-log4j-fix.sh and vrops-log4j-fix.sh files to the /tmp directory on all Analytic, Remote Collector and Witness nodes in the cluster using an SCP utility.
Log into each Analytic, Remote Collector and Witness node as root via SSH or Console, pressing ALT+F1 in a Console to log in.
Change to the /tmp directory on all nodes
cd /tmp
Run the following command on all nodes to make the data-rc-witness-log4j-fix.sh script executable:
chmod +x data-rc-witness-log4j-fix.sh
Run the following command on all nodes to make the vrops-log4j-fix.sh script executable:
chmod +x vrops-log4j-fix.sh
Run te following command on all nodes to execute the data-rc-witness-log4j-fix.sh script:
./data-rc-witness-log4j-fix.sh
Note: Ensure there are no ERROR messages in the script output.
Run the following command on all nodes to execute the vrops-log4j-fix.sh script:
./vrops-log4j-fix.sh
Note: Ensure there are no ERROR messages in the script output.
Run the following command on all nodes to restart the CaSA service:
service vmware-casa restart
Log into the vRealize Operations Manager Admin UI as the local admin user.
Hi, I have a vRops 8.5, and I would like to show you how we can reset the root password.
Log into the vRealize Operations admin UI as the local admin user.
Select the desired node and click Take Node Offline/Online.
Note: If using a single node cluster, click Take Offline under Cluster Status.
In the vSphere Client, open the console of the desired node.
With the console open, restart or power on the virtual machine.
Type the letter e to go to the GNU GRUB edit menu.
When the GRUB loader menu appears, immediately use the up and down arrow keys to navigate to the end of the line that starts with Photon OS or linux for new 8.x deployments.
Add a space, then type rw init=/bin/bash which adds another option to the line.
8. Press F10.
Note: The virtual appliance starts in single-user mode.
Type passwd root and follow the prompts to create a new root password.
Note: If the above command fails, try running sudo passwd root instead.
1- Login to your vRops, then go to Administarion –> Solutions –> Repository, Press the ADD button
2- Click on Browse
3- Select pakcage file that you downloaded it before.
4- Select Check box and press on UPDOAD button
5- Next
6- Select check box License Agreement and NEXT
7- Install Successful
8- You can see it in your Repositry, you must enter your storage username and password.
9- Enter a name for your account name, Your storage IP address and credential, Select your storage models from Connection Type, I select my Unity storage
10- You can add/delete more storage account in Other Accounts section
11- You can see your install result in Dashboard –> Dell EMC
We want upgrade vRops 7.5 to 8.5. There are some software update best practice:
Take a snapshot of your deployed vRealize Operations clusters or back them up before you begin the software update. See the release notes for details on how to snapshot correctly.
Run the pre-upgrade assessment tool before the upgrade. This is imperative and will provide you with a list of impacted content caused by the removal of numerous metrics from the product. Ignoring this step may potentially lead to broken content.
Remove your snapshots after the software update completes or you may experience performance degradation.
Ok, let start the upgarde.
1- Login to your vRops admin UI:
https://your-ip/admin
2- Take cluster into offline status
3- Then go to the System Status section
4- Press Install a software update button and select your update file. Update files format must be *.PAK .
5- Then press upload button
6- If you have get error that means you dont have enough space, you can check you server space
According part1, In first DataCenter we intstalled and configured vRops 8.5 in large mode, Now we are going to add a collector in second dataccenter. Each datacenter has own vCenter server.
1- Select an OVF template
2- Select a name and folder
3- Select a compute resource
4- Review details
5- Accept license agreements
6- According the our senario, I select Remote Collector deployment
7- Select storage
8- Select networks
9- Customize template [ Your Gateway, Domain Name, Domain Search Path, Domain Name Servers, Network IP Address and Network Netmask]
In first DataCenter we want to intstall and configure vRops 8.5 in large mode, Analytics nodes, witness nodes, and remote collectors have various hardware requirements for virtual machines and physical machines. You can find more information about the components to install on each server profile in your deployment, and the required hardware specifications, see the KB article vRealize Operations Manager Sizing Guidelines (KB 2093783).
1- Select an OVF template
2- Select a name and folder
3- Select a compute resource
4- Review details
5- Accept license agreements
6- According the our senario, I select Large deployment
7- Select storage
8- Select networks
9- Customize template [ Your Gateway, Domain Name, Domain Search Path, Domain Name Servers, Network IP Address and Network Netmask]