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BVQ web server 

• add scanners, to receive your data
• activate the alerting, to see your Health Map
• enable notifications
• make use of reports
  
  

Grafana 

• BVQ custom Dashboards for your systems
  
  

BVQ Expert GUI

• complex and deep analysis tool

We recommend to connect to your windows server with a local "bvq" user(which should be a member of the administrators group).

Open the install file as an administrator

We also have in our Knowledge Base.

The installation wizard uses default values,

you are able to install and run BVQ with these values.

You do not have to fill in a domain name, if you are using a local user,
if you are using a domain user, as you do not want to have a local users, you have to fill in the correct domain name.

With clicking the finish button the wizard will close and BVQ WebGUI will open up (Internet Explorer is not supported).

To reach the BVQ WebGUI the specific services will start, which can take up to a few minutes, after the installation.

The default address of the BVQ Server is:

The first login after an update or an installation you will be shown the BVQ Maintenance page.

There you need to start the schema adjustments and Activate Demo, after this task you will be redirected to the BVQ main page.

Depending on your browser, it may be necessary to clear the cache, when the sites are not loading or the screen is flickering.

BVQ uses data, collected by scanners from the connected systems. The scanners are product-specific and are managed in the scanner area.

• Open "Scanner" and "Scanner configuration"

BVQ uses data, collected by scanners from the connected systems. The scanners are product-specific and are managed in the scanner area.

• Open "Scanner" and "Scanner configuration"

• "Name" the scanner

"Hostname" is the FQN or the IP

The Credentials are used for the connection to the specific system, which will be scanned

The default values do not have to be changed.

• If you are configuring a Brocade scanner, you may need to use the Discover Fabric button
• If you are configuring a VMware scanner, you need to add the "/sdk" behind the URL
• If you are configuring a VMware scanner, you need to use the username@vCenter as username
• Press Save & Exit 

You need specific scanner instructions?
Please visit our KB articel for

Due to the different amount of data it is possible that the scanners will need quite some time to move to a green state

With this step, you will take the BVQ Systems Health map into operation.

Navigate to the main tab ALERTING and then to the sub tab Configuration.

The Alert rules are categorized by systems and chapters.

Initially all predefined alert rules are disabled.

Enable some (slider) or all alert rules for the systems applicable to your environment.

After enabling the alert rules, the System Health Map will be ready.

Navigate to the main tab ALERTING and then to the sub tab Results.

Mouseover an alert rule, will give you a short summary of the results of the alert rule. 

By simply clicking on an section or alert, the shown area will be changed. By clicking into the center, you can drill up again.

Start Grafana monitoring in the web browser

Use http://localhost:3000 from the BVQ Server

Use http://<name of BVQ Server>:3000 if you access the BVQ server from any other workstation

When you start Grafana, use the user bvq with the password P@ssw0rd

Move to Dashboards and Browse

There you can open up the specific System and the specific Dashboard