I’ll be going through a scalable and resilient deployment in parts, as there is simply too much to get through in a single post. Some will also be applicable to single deployments. The CMS design is using three CMS Call Bridges and Expressway as the reverse proxy and video path. I will not be deploying an Edge Server in this design.. However, I’ll add on the Edge configuration after the blog series, as the CMA App still requires this infrastructure.

Start Virtual Server from VMWare, then log into CMS as username: admin and password: admin. The system will have you change the password. Select a secure password and confirm. We now have access to the console. Lets configure some basic connectivity and system settings.

Add IP Address to Interface ‘a’ – ipv4 a add ipaddress/prefix gateway_ipaddress
Add DNS Servers – dns add forwardzone . dns_server_ipaddress **The dot represents ALL Domains.
Add NTP Servers – ntp server add ntp_server_ipaddress
Add Hostname (Reboot required) – hostname name_of_CMS (exclude the domain suffix)
Add Timezone (Reboot required) – timezone Australia/Sydney. (timezone list, shows you all the Timezones available to use if you’re not in Aussie Land)

To validate above settings run the below commands

Validate IP Address and Gateway -> ipv4 a
Validate DNS server and forward zone -> dns
Validate NTP server and sync -> ntp status
Validate Timezone -> timezone

**Note**

CMS passwords expire after 6 months by default. Hence, I also like to set the password age to the max 9999. Below is how to achieve this.

Firstly display the current password age/expiry

>user info admin

Configure the new password age rule (global)

>user rule password_age 9999

We then have to reset the admin username’s password for the password age rule to take effect.

>passwd admin
>ENTER THE PASSWORD FOR THE ADMIN ACCOUNT

Confirm the password age for the admin account

>user info admin