After you install the SolutionPack for Network Configuration Manager, you must configure the IP address of the M&R server in the NCM Application Server. If the M&R IP address was already set during the NCM installation, skip this task.

Procedure

  • Follow these steps to set the IP address of the M&R server in the NCM Application Server:
    Operating system Steps
    Linux
    1. Open the <Product directory>/db/controldb/data/pg_hba.conf file for editing.
    2. Add this line at the end of the pg_hba.conf file: host all all <M&R IP address>/32 md5
    3. Save and exit the pg_hba.conf file.
    4. Open the <Product directory>/db/controldb/data/postgresql.conf file for editing.
    5. Find the line #listen_addresses = 'localhost'.
    6. Add the M&R entry. For example: listen_addresses = 'localhost,10.31.149.68,10.31.151.223'
    7. Save and exit the postgresql.conf file.
    8. Type service controldb restart to restart the controldb service.
  • If you have selected ElastiSearch DB for Jobs data, you need to manually create the schema. You have to create the following ES-NCM-JOBS resource for the tomcat server, This enables the connection to NCM Jobs database. For example, to create a schema:
    In Linux: 
    Elastic Search:
        ./bin/manage-resources.sh create dba/ES-NCM-JOBS '{ "type": "elasticsearch", "datasource": 
        { "hosts": ["http://<Elastic Search Server IP Address>:9200"],"prefix": "/ncm*"},"settings": {"mapping": "ES-NCM-JOBS.xml"},
        "disabled": false }'
  • Restart Tomcat service.