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So now that we have deployed

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our first NSX Manager right here,

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it's now time to go ahead and verify that it is functional.

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So as I mentioned earlier, we did the demo install process

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and I earlier today installed this NSX Manager,

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but I have not yet connected to it

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from my management PC right here.

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So my management computer is .151

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on the management network of 192.168.1,

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and we should be able to reach this NSX Manager

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that we just deployed at .11.
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that we just deployed at .11.

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So we'll connect initially together

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so you can see every step along the way.

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So let's head over to our management computer right now

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and log in to this NSX Manager 11 at 192.168.1.11

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using a browser.

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All right, and we are off to a fabulous start

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because it's using a certificate

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that my management computer cannot verify.

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That's why I have the certificate warning.

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I'm gonna click on Advanced.

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So we're at the right address, 1921.168.1.11,

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and I'll click on Proceed.

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All right, then it presents me with this beautiful login
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All right, then it presents me with this beautiful login

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and these little red squares

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are due to my local password manager.

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Those are not part of NSX or this interface.

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So we'll log in as admin

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and then I'll specify the password that I set up

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during the deployment of this NSX Manager.

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So with that password supplied, we'll click on Log In

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for the very first time to this NSX Manager.

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All right, and here we go.

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So we have an end-user license agreement,

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and then we'll go ahead and say "I understand and accept"

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and click on Continue.

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Then it's asking me, do we wanna join the customer

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experience improvement program?
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experience improvement program?

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And in my lab environment here,

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I'm gonna say no to that for this and click on Save.

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Then it's giving us a little welcome to NSX.

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There's a little tour that we can run on and say,

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"Please don't show that again," and skip the tour.

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Now, if you want the tour and didn't do the tour,

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you can go back up here to the question mark,

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use the dropdown,

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and then click right here on View Product Tour,

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and it'll be happy to take you through that product tour.

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So by default, we have dark mode.

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If you wanna change that,

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you can just click up here on the little sun icon

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and that takes it to the lighter mode.

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If you wanna go back to dark mode, click on the moon.
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If you wanna go back to dark mode, click on the moon.

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So for recording purposes, I'm gonna go ahead

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and leave it on light mode.

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It's also warning us up here at the top

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that you have not configured backups of NSX Manager,

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and that's because we just deployed it.

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We haven't actually done much with it except for deploy it.

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So I've got one message there,

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I'll go ahead and arrow to the right.

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And some features are not supported

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with the Endpoint license, that's the default one.

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Please upgrade the license to use more supportive features,

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where it's asking us to go ahead

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and deploy the additional license.

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So we can do that either by clicking here

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on Managed Licenses.
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on Managed Licenses.

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And by clicking there,

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it took us to the System tab right here.

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And then on the left under Settings,

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it took us down to Licenses.

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So that's the default license that came with it.

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And then by clicking right here on Add License,

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I'm gonna add my VMUG Advantage license,

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which again is an evaluation license

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as part of the VMUG Advantage program.

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And that eval license is good for one year.

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So I'm gonna supply that key right here.

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So now that I've added my license,

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I'll go ahead and click on Add,

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and that's going to refresh this page

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and then effectively activate that license.
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and then effectively activate that license.

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So here's the license that came with it,

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and then this top one here

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is the Data Center Evaluation License

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that I just added as part of the VMUG Advantage program.

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And then for the warning message about backups

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of NSX manager, we'll get to that later.

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I'll click on the X in the upper right hand corner there.

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So with System selected, on the left,

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let's click on System Overview.

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And it's currently showing us

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what we currently have in place.

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So we have one NSX Management nodes,

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and that's the current NSX Manager that we're sitting at.

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Then we have zero host transport nodes,

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and that's a fancy way of saying an ESXi host
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and that's a fancy way of saying an ESXi host

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that's been enabled for NSX.

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We have zero edge transport nodes,

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and then we have two transport zones that come by default.

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So we don't have to use those.

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We can use those if we want,

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but there's two that are there by default that we can use.

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And if we wanted to check on the health

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and welfare of our NSX appliance,

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once again, we click here on the system tab on the top,

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and on the left, we simply click on Appliances

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in the Configuration section.

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So here with appliances selected,

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it gives us the big warning saying A compute manager

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is required to deploy, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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is required to deploy, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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So when it talks about a compute manager,

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what it's really referring to is we need to know,

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says NSX Manager, about the vCenter server

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that's in charge of your ESXi hosts.

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So before we get too far along,

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we'll need to make sure we have a license,

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which we've already done.

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And then secondly, we'll also need to tell NSX

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about where that vCenter server is and how to log onto it.

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So we'll get to that in just a moment.

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But as far as the health and wellbeing of this NSX cluster,

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here it's showing us that we have one appliance
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right here in this cluster.

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So the cluster of one.

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And currently, it shows as stable, that's a good sign.

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And here for this first node that we're working with,

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if we go down here to View Details,

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here it can give us additional information

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regarding the status of various services on the NSX Manager.

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So we'll go ahead and close that.

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And since we enabled SSH access

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over to this NSX Manager here at 192.168.1.11,

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let's also open up a terminal window and go to the CLI.

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We'll log in as admin,
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and we'll do some verification at the CLI as well.

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So I'm using a terminal emulator called SecureCRT.

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I'll click here on the little lightning bolt,

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and let's connect over to 192.168.1.11.

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And port 22 is the well-known port for SSH services.

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We wanna log in as admin, and then we'll click on Connect.

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We have not connected before because it's a brand new host.

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So we'll go ahead and say, regarding the host key,

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we'll accept it and save it.

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And then we'll log in.

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And for the admin password,

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I'll supply the password that I configured
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I'll supply the password that I configured

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when we deployed that NSX Manager.

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And I'm also gonna click on Save password.

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So if we log in in the future, I wouldn't have to re-put in

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that password over and over again.

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So we'll click on OK,

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and we're now logged on to NSX Manager 11.

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So there's the version number,

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and we are effectively at this NSX Manager

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at the NSX Command Line Interface.

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So we do a question mark right there.

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It gives us a list of possible first commands

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that we could issue.

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And so the primary one I wanna do here is get.

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So we'll type in get, or we can copy paste get,

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a space, and a question mark.
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a space, and a question mark.

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And here are the options that we could use

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after the word get.

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And these are in alphabetical order.

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So if we scroll up a little bit, let's go to cluster.

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So I'll go ahead and copy and paste cluster

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and a space and a question mark.

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Then we have these four options that can follow clusters.

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So we'll type in status, I'll tab it out,

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and a question mark.

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And then we could either just press Enter,

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that's what the CR there is, carriage return,

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or we could use a pipe symbol or we could type in verbose.

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So let's just do a get cluster status and press Enter.

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And lemme scroll up to the top of this output.

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So there's our command, get cluster status,
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So there's our command, get cluster status,

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from the NSX CLI.

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And this effectively is a command line option

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for seeing what we saw in the GUI.

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So what we're looking for is stable across the board.

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And if we see degraded or some other message

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indicating a problem, we'd wanna look into it.

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So here we have MANAGER and HTTPS

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and SITE_MANAGER, et cetera, et cetera.

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And again, these are the same options

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that are appearing in the GUI.

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So we went back to the web interface.

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And for this node, which is part of the cluster,

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if we clicked here on View Details,

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you'll notice we have MANAGER and HTTPS
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you'll notice we have MANAGER and HTTPS

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and SITE_MANAGER, et cetera.

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So if you can't get to the GUI,

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or you're currently at the CLI and you wanna see the status,

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it's get cluster status.

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So again, a question mark

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will give you context sensitive help

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for where you're currently at.

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So if we go back to the very beginning

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of our command line here,

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if we type in get, space, a question mark.

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And if we wanna verify our version, for example,

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we can type in get version, a space, and a question mark.

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And again, the only options here is a carriage return

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or we could do a pipe and modify the output.

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So we'll press Enter, and that'll show us the version.
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So we'll press Enter, and that'll show us the version.