Documentation | Support

Go to the table of contents Go to the previous page Go to the next page View or print as PDF
Installation > Scripts > Installation steps
Installation steps
The lastline-virt-install script creates the VM, installs the Lastline Manager software, configures DHCP in the host system and updates the VM's configuration. It executes as follows:
1.
The lastline-virt-install script runs the virt-install tool as a detached command (notice the parentheses and the '& disown' at the end) to create the VM and install the Lastline software in a single step as described below:
(virt-install --virt-type=kvm --name tmp_lastline --ram 49152 --vcpus=12 --os-variant=ubuntu14.04 --hvm --network=bridge=virbr0,model=virtio --graphics vnc --disk path=/data/lastline.raw,size=4096,bus=ide,format=raw,cache=none,io=native --cdrom=/data/ISO/branded_lastline-manager-725~6-6547-39c4616.iso --wait=60 --noautoconsole >> ${LOGFILE} 2>&1 & disown)
The installation process will take approximately 20 minutes to complete. No output is generated since all activity is happening inside the guest VM.
NOTE: We use the IDE driver for the virtual disk because the guest system cannot detect disks running with the high performance virtual driver (virtio). Apparently, Ubuntu's 14.04 installation scripts cannot see drives that are named vda as required by the virtio driver. Only sda and hda are supported by the scripts. We will update the VM's configuration to use the right driver (virtio) once the installation is complete.
2.
Once the VM has been created, the script will update the DHCP configuration in the host system and assign the new VM the default IP of 10.0.0.10.
3.
The script will wait for the VM to become online. It will ping the default IP (10.0.0.10) until the Lastline Manager responds. If the manager does not respond in 30 minutes, the installation will fail and exit.
4.
Once the installation is complete, the VM is powered off to update the configuration of the disk driver from IDE to virtio.
5.
The VM is configured to start on boot.
6.
The Advanced Malware Detection On-Premises system is rebooted to complete installation.

Go to the table of contents Go to the previous page Go to the next page View or print as PDF
Installation > Scripts > Installation steps
Copyright 2017 Forcepoint. All rights reserved.