Testing Appliance Connectivity

To test connectivity to another host:

1. Go to the Collector CLI.

2. Use the up and down arrow keys to navigate to the Test Connectivity option, and press Enter.

3. Use the up and down arrow keys to navigate to the Test connectivity to another host (using PING) option, and press Enter.

4. In the Type host address field, enter the host address you want to reach and press Enter. A message is displayed whether the host is reachable or not.

5. Press Esc until you go back to the main menu.

This process performs four connectivity tests. The first test, tests the reachability of the appliance to the cloud URL Uniform Resource Locator. URL is a global address used for locating web resources on the Internet. discovery server. Perform this test before you register the appliance. The second test, tests the reachability of the appliance to the Aruba cloud URL. Perform this test after you register the appliance. The third and fourth tests, test the reachability of the application metadata server and application containers server. Perform these tests before registration,

To test connectivity to all required servers:

1. Go to the Collector CLI.

2. Use the up and down arrow keys to navigate to the Test Connectivity option, and press Enter.

3. Use the up and down arrow keys to navigate to the Test connectivity to all required servers option, and press Enter.

The following messages are displayed:

Ensure that the first, third, and fourth tests are successful. Otherwise, check if the DNS Domain Name System. A DNS server functions as a phone book for the intranet and Internet users. It converts human-readable computer host names into IP addresses and IP addresses into host names. It stores several records for a domain name such as an address 'A' record, name server (NS), and mail exchanger (MX) records. The Address 'A' record is the most important record that is stored in a DNS server, because it provides the required IP address for a network peripheral or element. servers are reachable from the appliance. For more information, see Testing Appliance Connectivity.

The following messages are displayed after registering an appliance: