We've created a virtual appliance in OVF format for those who want to get quickly started with NAV. Most popular virtualization environments can import this appliance.

The appliance runs 64-bit Debian GNU/Linux 6 (a.k.a. Squeeze), with NAV installed from the packages available at http://pkg-nav.alioth.debian.org/. This also means that NAV is easily upgradeable using Debian's aptitude or apt-get tools.

Download the appliance from eske (UNINETT's cloud storage “Dropbox clone”)

• log in as 'root' and change the root-password (passwd)
• add a decent email-address to forward root's email to in /etc/aliases
• fix the network-configuration (/etc/network/interfaces) and restart network with /etc/init.d/network restart
• add networks that shall be allowed to talk to the appliance in /etc/hosts.allow (both clients to the NAV webinterface and network equipment that send SNMP traps)
• also fix hostname/domainname in the following files: /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/mailname and /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf

• OVF - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Virtual_Machine_Format
• NAV - http://nav.uninett.no/
• Debian GNU/Linux - http://www.debian.org/
• NAV virtual appliance recipe