Pre-Deployment (On-Site)

The following items must be addressed before FireScope DDM can be initialized.

1. NTP must be configured in the Firescope Console of each VM. 
   Record the IP address or DNS name for an authoritative NTP time source here: _______________
2. The following VMware OVAs from Firescope are delivered prior to onsite visit:
   1. SAPP
   2. SEDGE
   3. SMONGO
   4. SWEB
3. Access to vCenter with correct permissions to deploy, edit, and start/stop VMs.
4. Access to the OVAs location (e.g., shared drive, datastore).
5. IPs pre-allocated for each VM.
   1. Complete the DDM Core Setup Table.
6. Access to a primary and secondary DNS server with the ability to do forward and reverse DNS lookup of IP addresses.
7. DNS A records and reverse lookup entries for all Stratis servers.
8. Load balancer configuration pre-allocated and configured.
   1. See the Load Balancer Configuration Example.
9. Pre-allocated storage space for each Mongo database.
   1. Separate VMDK in the datastore (minimum size recommendation 200GB)
   2. Network Attached Storage
      • Firescope will assist with this.
   3.  Other
      • Firescope will assist with this.

 Firewall settings. For more information, see the Deployment Guide SDDM Core Setup Table

Considerations

Give some considerations such as system requirements or "gotchas" for this setting or control or programming syntax.