Mounting an NFS Server on a Pulse One Appliance

To mount an NFS server on a Pulse One appliance, do the following:

1.Configure and provision the Pulse One appliance.

2.Ensure that the NFS server is configured correctly.

3.Ensure that Pulse One appliance is on a subnet that can reach the NFS server.

4.From the Pulse One CLI, run the following command:

p1 log-aggregator show

Example output for this command is shown below:

keep_days: 30

type: local

5.With the above confirmation, mount the NFS server by running the following command:

p1 log-aggregator nfs -v <NFS_server_IP or FQDN>:/<path_on_remote_server>

To use NFS for log storage, both Active and Passive nodes must be configured to use separate NFS mounts.

A message appears:

This will delete all existing appliance logs. All services will be stopped if currently running.

Continue? [y/N]:

6.At the confirmation prompt, type y and press Enter.

Note: If confirmed, all current logs are lost, so perform this step after the initial set up to avoid loss of needed logs.

7.To check the status of NFS mount, run the following command:

p1 log-aggregator show

Mounting an NFS server on Pulse One stops all Pulse One services. To continue accessing the Pulse One UI, run the services start CLI command.

8.Confirm on the NFS server that Pulse One appliance logs are being synced to it.

If the data partition of the target system is full or reaches the disk-usage threshold, then the forwarded logs will not be stored. Follow the steps in Managing System Files and Settings to clear older logs.

9.Proceed as normal with using Pulse One appliance from the UI.

See the Pulse One Command Reference Guide for full details of individual commands.