12.0 Planning Network Support

Table 12-1 Worksheet 20 - IP Address Infrastructure Information

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Information and Instructions:

Primary Network

  1. On Worksheet 20 - Primary Network, record the IP address information for the network that your Filr deployment will communicate on, including:

    • Subnet Address:

    • Subnet Mask:

    • Name Servers:

    • Search Domain: (default is domain specified for appliance DNS names)

    • Gateway:

Secondary Network (optional for Filr appliance administration)

  1. (Optional) If you plan to administer Filr through a second network card, record the same IP address information for the secondary network that you did for the first.

  2. If you will use only one network, leave this section blank.

Load Balancing

  1. Mark or write in the load balancer solution you plan to use.

  2. Note any information about the solution you plan to deploy or integrate with.

Port 9443 Admin Console Access Restrictions

  1. If you want to limit appliance administration, specify the IP addresses of the networks from which you want to allow administrative access on Port 9443.

Table 12-2 Worksheet 20 - Appliance-Specific IP Address Information

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Information and Instructions:

Preparing the worksheet

  1. Copy the pertinent appliance sections, until you have one for each Filr and Filrsearch appliance you will deploy.

    Micro Focus recommends the following:

    • At least 3 Filr appliances (two in a Filr cluster and one dedicated to indexing and Net Folder synchronization

    • Two Filrsearch appliances

    • An in-house SQL server

NIC Configuration Settings

  1. Change each angle-bracketed name to a name that identifies each Filr and Filrsearch appliance.

  2. For each appliance and the SQL server, record the IP address information you will specify during deployment.

IMPORTANT:Filr requires that static IP addresses be used throughout (as indicated on the worksheet).