Thunderstone Search Appliance Manual

Console Menu

To use the console menu you need to attach a keyboard and VGA monitor to the standard ports on the rear of the Parametric Search Appliance. You will see the following menu:

    Thunderstone Search Appliance Summary on YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS    
Thunderstone phone: 216-820-2200
MAC Address       : xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
Ethernet 1        : xxxxx
Ethernet 2        : xxxxx
IP Address        : xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Index Admin Page  : http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/texis/dowalk
System Admin Page : https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:999

    Thunderstone Appliance Setup and Information    
   T) Thunderstone information
   N) Network and system information
   S) Setup network
   F) drop Firewall/NAT (Allow all network access)
   A) drop Admin restrictions (HTTPS,IP,Cipher requirements)
   I) dIagnostics
   R) Reboot system
   D) shutDown system
   H) Help
   L) Login (Thunderstone tech support only)
Enter your choice:

Choose an item by entering the letter on the left of the item.

• T) Thunderstone information will display information about the Parametric Search Appliance software version, license information.

• N) Network and system information will display information about the network and firewall settings.

• S) Setup network will prompt for network info and change settings accordingly. Entering "q" for any prompt will abandon changes and return to the menu.

  • Use DHCP?(y/n/q) Enter "y" to get IP information automatically from DHCP and not ask further questions. Enter "n" to specify the IP information manually.

  • Enter IP address or q: Enter the IP address in dotted-decimal form: nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn

  • Enter net mask, blank, or q: Enter the IP netmask in dotted-decimal form: nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn

  • Enter gateway, blank, or q: Enter the network gateway IP address in dotted-decimal form: nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn

  • Primary nameserver, blank, or q: Enter the IP of the primary nameserver in dotted-decimal form: nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn

  • Secondary nameserver, blank, or q: Leave blank for no secondary nameserver. Or enter the IP of the secondary nameserver in dotted-decimal form: nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn

  • Enter hostname, blank, or q: Enter the host name of the Parametric Search Appliance. Ideally this will match whatever your DNS has for the assigned IP. At the very least it should be a fully qualified name such as "app.mydomain.com" so that email notifications etc. can work. It should never be a single word like "mysearch" as that can delay the boot process.

  • Enter DNS Domain Name, blank, or q: Enter the domain to use on unqualified host names, such "mydomain.com". Or leave blank to prevent unqualified names from resolving.

   

• F) drop Firewall/NAT (Allow all network access) will drop all firewall ant NAT rules that you may have setup using the webmin web interface. It will also permanently delete the firewall and NAT configs so they will not come back on upon boot. This is most useful when you've accidentally created a firewall configuration that locks you out of the admin interface.

   

• A) drop Admin restrictions (HTTPS,IP,Cipher requirements) will remove all system-wide settings that restrict the web admin interface. This is useful if you've accidentally created a config that locks you out of the admin interface. This is permanent. Any desired restrictions will have to be re-added from the web interface.

• I) dIagnostics will enter a sub-menu of network diagnostics as follows.

    Thunderstone Appliance Diagnostics | YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
   P) Ping
   T) Traceroute
   L) Lookup hostname
   F) Fetch a URL
   S) System view
   R) RAID info
   M) Main menu
Enter your choice:

• Menu items:

  • P) Ping will request a hostname or IP and send icmp packets to that host. It will run continuously until you press C.

  • T) Traceroute will request a hostname or IP and trace the network route to that host.

  • L) Lookup hostname will request a hostname and, optionally, a name server IP and will lookup the IP for the given hostname on the configured, or given, DNS server.

  • F) Fetch a URL will request a URL and attempt to fetch that URL. It will print out all of the received HTTP/HTTPS headers but not the content. You may also enter a FILE URL of the form the appliance takes to test mounted fileservers. See Network Filesystems & Shares (3.3).

  • S) System view will give a self-updating view of the running system showing actively running processes, CPU and memory utilization. Press q to quit.

  • R) RAID info will display the status of the RAID disk array.

  • M) Main menu will return to the main menu.

• R) Reboot system will stop and restart the Parametric Search Appliance.

• D) shutDown system will cleanly stop and power down the Parametric Search Appliance.

• H) Help will show a short help message.

• L) Login (Thunderstone tech support only) will provide low-level system login for extended troubleshooting. This can only be used by Thunderstone technical support staff.