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--- gettingstarted [2010/11/18 13:56] – replace gDD info with ipdevpoll morten
+++ gettingstarted [2011/04/11 06:30] (current) – fix various stale details morten
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 ===== Install NAV and dependencies =====
-In principle, NAV can run on any Unix-like platform, as long as Apache, postgresql, Perl, Python, PHP and Java are supported.
+In principle, NAV can run on any Unix-like platform, as long as Apache, postgresql, Python and Java are supported.
 Several distribution packages are available or you can install NAV from source if you like.
    * See our [[navdownload|download page]] for details.
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+==== Even easier install ====
+  * Use our available [[navappliance|virtual appliance]] with NAV preinstalled!
 ===== Adjust NAV configuration files =====
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    - In ''nav.conf'' set ''ADMIN_MAIL'' to the email account of your NAV administrator.
    - In ''nav.conf'' set ''DOMAIN_SUFFIX'' to your domain.
-   - In ''db.conf'' set ''userpw_nav''. NAV will use this password to access the NAV database. For debugging purposes you use it yourself to access the database from the shell with ''psql manage nav''.
+   - In ''db.conf'' set ''userpw_nav''. NAV will use this password to access the NAV database. For debugging purposes you use it yourself to access the database from the shell with ''psql nav nav''.
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 <code>
 $/usr/sbin/nav status
-Up: alertengine cricket eventengine getDeviceData iptrace logengine mactrace maintengine networkDiscovery pping servicemon thresholdMon
+Up: alertengine cricket eventengine ipdevpoll logengine mactrace maintengine networkDiscovery pping servicemon snmptrapd thresholdMon
 Down: smsd
 </code>
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 After you have registered your equipment in NAV, the background processes starts collecting information with snmp:
-   * [[backendprocesses#ipdevpoll|ipdevpoll]] should notice the new IP device within 2 minutes, and will then classify the new box in terms of OIDs supported. This can be seen from the IP device report from the [[reporttool|report tool]].
+   * [[backendprocesses#ipdevpoll|ipdevpoll]] should notice the new IP device within 2 minutes and will start collecting switch/router port information and more. Verify the status using the report tool (or network explorer). You may also check the ''ipdevpoll.log'' file.
-   * The next step for getDeviceData will be to gather switch/router port information and more. Verify the status using the report tool (or network explorer). You may also check the ''ipdevpoll.log'' file.
 After the individual components has its collected data [[backendprocesses#mactrace|mactrace]] will every 15 minutes gather mac to switch port data. This will in turn be used by the