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2. Lab Environment

In this Lab, you will have access to one OpenShift cluster via a bastion virtual machine that has installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Note that inside OpenShift, the cluster has installed the Cloud Pak for AIOps. It also has installed the Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF) which is a software-defined, container-native storage solution that provides storage classes that will be used by the Cloud Pak for AIOps to dynamically request storage.

The following diagram describes the infrastructure for the Lab:

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There is also a regular virtual machine present that has Netcool/OMNIbus and Netcool/Impact installed. A Simnet Probe is running and feeding a stream of events into Netcool/OMNIbus. The Netcool assets on this virtual machine will be used in this lab.

2.1: Prerequisites​

Obtain your Entitlement key​

You will need an IBM ID to request an entitlement key. You can create an IBM ID from here.

To complete this lab you will need an entitlement key. Navigate to this link to obtain your entitlement key that is assigned to your IBM ID which will grant you access to the IBM Entitled Registry. Copy this into a text editor as we will need it later in the Lab.

You can check your entitlement for the Cloud Pak for AIOPs by clicking View Library

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If your entitlement key is not valid for the Cloud Pak for AIOPs, you can register for a 60 day trial using the following link: Request trial.

2.2: Requesting a Lab Environment​

Below is a live chart showing Tech Zone capacity in each available region. When requesting your environment it would be wise to select the region that has the most capacity available.

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Follow these instructions for step by step guidance on requesting a new lab environment in IBM Tech Zone.

Request Tech Zone environment:

2.3: Accessing your Lab Environment​

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Once you have received an eMail confirming that your environment is ready, follow these instructions for step by step guidance on accessing your lab environment in IBM Tech Zone.

2.4: Running 'oc' Commands to Connect to the Cluster​

In the previous section, we described how to access the bastion VM. Now we will connect to the OpenShift cluster using the OpenShift CLI (oc commands).

  • From the bastion VM desktop, open a Terminal window (you may need to click on Activities in the top-left to remove the screen-saver)
  • In the Terminal window, copy & paste the oc command below to login into the cluster. Get your kubeadmin password from your environment details page. This command will make a connection to your cluster and authenticate you, so you will be ready to start issuing oc commands during the Lab as needed.
oc login --server=https://api.ocp.techzone.lan:6443 --username kubeadmin --password <your password>

2.5: Log in to the Cloud Pak for AIOps console​

Now you are going to locate the console URL and the admin login credentials from your deployed instance of the Cloud Pak for AIOps.

Find the Cloud Pak for AIOps URL to access the console by running the following command from the Terminal window:

echo -e "https://$(oc get route -n cp4aiops cpd -o jsonpath='{.spec.host}')\n"

Find the password for the admin username by running the following command from the Terminal window:

oc -n cp4aiops get secret platform-auth-idp-credentials -o jsonpath='{.data.admin_password}' | base64 -d ; echo -e "\n"

Open a Firefox browser window and navigate to the AIOps dashboard using the url you discovered in the previous step.

https://cpd-cp4aiops.apps.ocp.techzone.lan

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You will get one or more security Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead. This is because we have used self-signed certificates for this Lab. Just accept the risk and continue.

  • Username: cpadmin
  • Password: The password you found in the previous step.

After you login, you will land into the Cloud Pak for AIOps home page as shown below: