Delivering Active Farms

If you are activating farms on behalf of users and account managers, delivering an active farm to the user entails communicating the following information:

• IP addresses

• Device passwords

• Additional information

Communicating Activation Information To Users

This section describes the type of information you need to communicate to users when delivering a farm.

IP Addresses

Users need to know the IP addresses for the farm. Users can view IP addresses for each device through the Control Center. You can also produce a report showing all the IP addresses assigned to the user devices. The data can be found by using the command lr -lv farm_ID.

For external public subnetworks, the address in a network, before broadcast, is the HSRP address, default gateway. The two addresses before are the edge router interfaces. The simplest report format is a spreadsheet as shown in Figure 4–4:

Figure 4–4 Simple Report Format

Device Passwords

Users also need to know the default passwords for farm devices and the passwords you assigned .

Additional Information

Advise the user about the following information:

• The user should not change network device passwords (load balancers)without notifying the administrator. Failure to notify the administrator after changing the password of network devices results in the Control Center being locked out of network devices. Monitoring also ceases to function.

• The user should change device passwords on the servers, all operating systems, immediately after they are initially assigned. The Control Center continues to access the servers. Monitoring continues to function, unless the user disables the monitoring agents.