Step 1. Assemble the following before you begin

To prepare for the deployment of the Guardium® system, the network administrator needs to supply the following information.

  • IP address for the interface card (the primary interface)
  • Subnet mask for primary IP address
  • Default router IP address.
  • Hostname and domain name to assign to system
  • DNS server IP addresses (up to three addresses), and add the new Guardium system to your DNS domain
  • (optional) IP address for secondary management interface
  • (optional) Mask for secondary IP management interface
  • (optional) Gateway for secondary IP management interface
  • (optional) NTP server hostname
  • (optional) SMTP configuration information (for email alerts): IP address, port, and if authentication is used, an SMTP user name and password
  • (optional) SNMP configuration information (for SNMP alerts) the IP address of the SNMP server and the trap community name to use.