Server Configuration and Deployment (part 1) Lotus Foundations Essentials

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1 Server Configuration and Deployment (part 1) Lab Manual Lotus Foundations Essentials

2 Introduction: In this lab, students will configure an IBM Lotus Foundations server using a virtual image to perform a complete installation of Lotus Foundations Start. The Virtual Machine will use one main virtual drive and one drive for backup. This lab illustrates the steps required for a typical out of the box experience in a third party hardware environment. Learning objectives: After this lab, you will be able to do the following. Install Lotus Foundations on third-party hardware, simulated using VMware. Setup a basic Lotus Foundations configuration including a main disk and backup disk. Rename the server and set the time zone. Reboot the server and verify it is running from the hard drive. What you need: VMware Server , installed on your Microsoft Windows desktop VMware image, created in advance - Server Configuration and Deployment (1) IBM Lotus Foundations core on an ISO (image file) to use for booting the image (located at c: \foundations\ on the classroom workstations). A web browser This document Procedure: PART 1: BOOT A LOTUS FOUNDATIONS SERVER VIRTUAL IMAGE In this lab, you will leverage a pre-configured virtual machine shell to install the Lotus Foundations Server. This VM has the virtual machine settings for CD-ROM configured to boot from an ISO image supplied in the course materials. After this, you will configure a main and a backup (idb) disk. After the Lotus Foundations base server configuration is complete, you will change your CD-ROM VMware configuration back to start up the image using the created disks instead of the ISO, and reboot the Foundations server to boot from the drives you configured. Locate and open the folder on the desktop called Foundations Labs. Step 1 Step 2 Double click the virtual machine shortcut titled Server Configuration and Deployment (1). This will launch VMware Server and load the virtual machine for the first portion of this lab Click Start This Virtual Machine in the Commands section

3 Step 3 Observe this screen. You may press 1 to start Lotus Foundations, or wait a few minutes as it will automatically choose to Launch Lotus Foundations for you. Step 4 Boot Progress starts, notice system startup messages. After a few moments, the system prompts you to press enter. This process is shortly after Stage 4b.

4 Step 5 Press Enter when prompted. Note: Pressing enter does nothing? Click into the window or use the control-key combination CTRL + ALT to toggle from your desktop (the host) and the VMware image (the guest). As a reminder, this is a basic navigation construct of VMware. Remember this for future labs. Step 6 Use Webconfig Instead RED box prompt displays. Press enter as indicated in this picture. Step 7 On the upper left of the blue box, next to the Webconfig prompt, observe an IP address, prefaced with Write this down now. This is the IP address of your Lotus Foundations

5 Server. Later on you use this to navigate to the server administration system, Webconfig. Note: It may take a few minutes for the system discovery process to assign an IP address, please wait for this to automatically happen, through the system autonomics. Step 8 With the Virtual Machine still running and Lotus Foundations Server started, open a browser and access the Webconfig site using the IP address. Tip: you MUST use Step 9 Click Yes at the Security Alert Window prompt. If you are using a different browser, this screen and security alert could differ in presentation. You must accept the certificate. Step 10 Observe the Welcome screen and accept all licensing agreements.

6 Step 11 The Create Administrator Account page displays. Create an administrator account leaving the user id as root. Enter the password as password. For the internet domain, please use demo.null. Typically you may enter in a random domain, for example, your name and the extension.com as the internet domain. Please do NOT use three-part domains, or real domains such as IBM.com. Please keep this to 8 letters for the domain, and use *.com for the extension. Tip: The IBM Lotus Domino server inherits this domain name. Step 12 Step 13 Click OK to save your changes. Webconfig displays a message that the account was created. Click Login and Web Configuration continues the setup and initial server configuration.

7 Step 14 Log into Webconfig using the root admin account you created. Step 15 Scroll under System Status on the right side of the screen until you get to Disk Status Step 16 Click Configure disk #1 as a stand-alone disk and disk #2 as an idb backup.

8 Step 17 Click OK past the choice verification prompt. After the Browser refreshes, Disk Status should display that configuration is in progress. Click Update Status to check when the configuration process completes. Step 18 Observe the disk status section shows green check-marks after disk configuration. Note, this may take a few minutes, depending upon your system resources, unless you see the checkmarks, assume this is not complete:

9 Step 19 Open the Local page of the Webconfig to set the Server Name, and the appropriate Time zone. Note that the Domain name you configured on the initial page is present on this page and can be changed (but only before the Start package is installed) Don't forget to save your changes... Access the VMware Server application to unmount the CD so that the server will boot from the primary drive.

10 Step 20 Return to the status page and scroll to the bottom. Choose 'Reboot' to restart the server and boot from the drives you configured a few steps back.

11 The VM will restart now. Observe that you now are booting from the configured disks instead of the ISO. Log back onto your system and verify this under STATUS Disk Status, and you will see this indicated in the Disk Status Section. Section Summary: So far, you have installed and configured IBM Lotus Foundations on a third-party machine, in this case VMware. You created a main and a backup drive for Lotus Foundations, and verified that you are able to securely connect to the system through Webconfig. You renamed the server and set its time zone to allow for automatic DST adjustments. You have setup a server with base configuration, including the domain name and administrative user. These steps are typical of installation on non-certified hardware. The foundations Appliance has a DOM built in to eliminate the need for a CD or.iso, once the server appliance is booted the basic steps are the same.