Adding a Second Network Interface to the File Fabric™ For Administration (Draft)

File Fabric™ administrators may wish to add a second network interface to the File Fabric™ appliance so that server management can be done without using with the File Fabric’s™ application network interface. These notes, which are intended for experienced Linux system administrators who also have a good understanding of File Fabric™ system administration, summarize how to do this. Extensive File Fabric™ application knowledge is not needed.

The procedure consists of two parts: 1. Changing the File Fabric™ appliance’s configuration so that a specific IP address will be used for all network access to the File Fabric. 2. Establishing a second network interface with its own IP address for server management.

Important Points to Note Before Beginning

1. All commands should be executed as root.
2. The appliance should be configured with smeconfigserver before executing the steps in this document.
3. If smeconfigserver is run after these steps have been performed then the changes made by following these steps may be overwritten and have to be repeated.

These notes refer to two IP addresses: - IPADDRESS - the IPV4 address of the interface you will use for the File Fabric™. - IPADMINADDRESS – the IPV4 or IPV6 address you will use for server management.

Changing the File Fabric™ Appliance’s Configuration

vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Change Listen directive from: Listen 80 to: Listen IPADDRESS:80 Listen 127.0.0.1:80 HTTPS protocol vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf Change listen ports from: Listen 443 https to: Listen IPADDRESS:443 https Listen 127.0.0.1:443 https Restart Apache systemctl stop httpd systemctl start httpd FTP* Services FTP Service vi /var/www/smestorage/ftpserver/ftpserver.conf And bind to the IP address: ftpserverip=IPADDRESS SFTP Service vi /var/www/smestorage/ftpserver/sftpserver/sftpserver.conf and replace: ftpserverip=0.0.0.0 with: ftpserverip=IPADDRESS Restart FTP Services systemctl stop cloudftp systemctl start cloudftp Establishing a Second Network Interface ZZZ Fabric™ administrators may wish to add a second network interface to the File Fabric™ appliance so that server management can be done without using with the File Fabric’s™ application network SSH IP Binding vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config Change Listen IP address ListenAddress IPADMINADDRESS Restart service systemctl restart sshd