SANnav 2.0 Single Node Install

Roughly a year ago Broadcom / Brocade introduced it's new SAN management software named SANnav. This software will replace BNA as the go forward SAN management platform. The install is only supported on Redhat or CentOS for now. It showcases a full HTML5 interface and a Rest API. I have replaced the 1.x install we had with a freshly installed 2.0 in our lab to use and work with the API.

Below walks through my install.

This software is container based and runs on docker swarm at the moment. You probably wouldn't much notice if you didn't know what was passing by in the install. Brocade has done of a good job of making a container app deployment fairly seamless.

We will be using CentOS Linux release 7.7.1908 (Core) minimal installed on VMware VM

The machine used MUST HAVE the specs below or the install will not proceed.

There is a larger install for supporting up to 15k ports. This install will support up to 3k ports.

Here are the specs for the supported configuratons.

The specs we will use are below and are checked by the installer

2 sockets with 16 cores total (2×8) >=2Ghz
48GB RAM
610GB single disk partitioned with defaults

hostname -i must return server ip address from DNS

**Removed the last entry in the /etc/hosts file pointing the short name and the fqdn to 127.0.1.1**

Assuming you have downloaded the Portal_2.0.0-distribution.tar.gz
from broadcom CSP….

SANnav will need to be installed as root
Verify that docker is not installed

To find out use the below command

yum list installed | grep docker

umask will need to be set before extracting the tar file on the server

You can copy your tar file to the server before changing the umask but do not unzip it.

Run the commands to configure the umask and set elasticsearch limits

umask 0022 echo "elasticsearch - nofile 65536" >> /etc/security/limits.conf

Firmware updates use the port 22 interface in SANnav so we will need to move ssh to a non-standard port. We will use 8022 as shown in the image.

Below is the guide details on this.

The below commands install all necessary packages, change ssh to port 8022, allow ssh to run on port 22, restart ssh, open firewall ports and setup ip forwarding. In that order.

Run the commands below

yum install policycoreutils-python-2.5-33.el7.x86_64 yum install bind-utils lsof -y sed -i_bkp 's/#Port 22/Port 8022/' /etc/ssh/sshd_config semanage port -m -t ssh_port_t -p tcp 8022 systemctl restart sshd firewall-cmd --add-service=http --permanent firewall-cmd --add-port=8022/tcp --permanent echo "net.ipv4.ip_forward=1" >> /etc/sysctl.conf /sbin/sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1

**From now on you will need to specify -p 8022 on ssh connections**