When deploying a vShield Manager VA, its IP address is set to DHCP by default. Once deployed and started, you can log on through the console to change it to a fixed IP.

Open a VMWare console to the appliance and log on:

manager login: adminPassword: ****** (the CLI 'admin' password you entered during the deployment)

Go into enable mode and enter the setup:

manager> enablePassword: ****** (the enable password you entered during the deployment)manager# setup

Enter the IP address, subnet mask, gateway and DNS settings. When finished, you will be prompted to log out.

Note that after setting the IP address, I had to restart the appliance because the web interface was only accessible on t  ...