Install the Virtual Sensor

Prerequisites:

The Virtual Sensor installation file is an .ova file. Make sure this file is accessible from your client machine.
Standard vSwitches and switch port groups are available for the Sensor management port and monitoring ports that you plan to use. Consider that you are installing IPS-VM5000, which has one management port, one response port, and 6 monitoring ports. Currently you plan to deploy ports 1-2 in inline mode between 2 vSwtiches. You do not plan to use ports 3, 4, 5, and 6 for now. For this example, make sure you have the following:
- Standard vSwitch with switch port group for the management port. The Sensor must be able to communicate with the Manager through this switch port group.
- Two standard vSwitches with switch port groups for monitoring port 1 and 2. That is, the Sensor will act as a bridge between these two vSwitches with port pair 1-2 inline between these two vSwitches.
- Different dummy switch port groups for the Sensor ports that you do not plan to use now — response port and monitoring ports 3, 4, 5, and 6.
You have added the Virtual Sensor in the Manager.

Steps:

Log on to the ESX as the root user in VMware vSphere Web Client.
Navigate to the required node such as a resource pool, right-click, and select Deploy OVF Template.
In the Select an OVF template section, click UPLOAD FILES and locate the .ova file. Click NEXT.
In the Select a name and folder section, enter a name for the Sensor in the Virtual machine name field and select the corresponding data center.
Preferably, enter the same name that you entered when adding the Sensor in the Manager.
In the Select a compute resource section, click NEXT.
Review the template details in the Review details section and click NEXT.
In the Select storage section, select Thin Provision from the VM Storage Policy drop-down, select the datastore, and click NEXT.
In the Select networks section, select the switch port group for the corresponding Sensor port.
In the Customize template section, specify the Sensor setup details.
1. Enter the same Sensor name that you specified in the Manager.
2. Optionally, enter the IPv4 address for the Sensor.
  You can specify IPv4, IPv6, or both type of IP addresses to the Sensor.
3. If you had specified an IPv4 address, specify the subnet mask for the IPv4 address that you provided.
4. If you had specified an IPv4 address, specify the default gateway for the IPv4 address.
  This is mandatory if the Sensor needs to communicate outside its network. For example, the Manager could be on a different subnet.
5. Optionally, specify an IPv6 address to the Sensor.
6. If you had specified an IPv6 address, specify the default gateway for the IPv6 address.
7. Specify the IPv4 or IPv6 address of the hypervisor, such as VMware ESX server on which you are deploying the Virtual Sensor.
8. Specify the Manager's primary IPv4 or IPv6 address.
  To specify the Manager's secondary IP address, use the set manager secondary ip command in the Sensor CLI after the Sensor is installed.
9. Specify the shared secret key and also confirm it by re-entering.
10. Click NEXT.
Review the configuration that you specified and click FINISH.
Click BACK and make changes, if required. Note that the Sensor setup details that you entered are listed under Customize template.
After the Virtual Sensor is installed, power on the Sensor. Open an SSH client session to logon to the Sensor.
Alternatively, you can click LAUNCH WEB CONSOLE or LAUNCH REMOTE CONSOLE in the vSphere Web Client.
Note
You need to install VMware Tools to use the LAUNCH REMOTE CONSOLE option.
In the Sensor CLI, enter admin and admin123 as the login name and password respectively.
Use the status CLI command to check if trust is established with the Manager and if signature set is present in the Sensor.
If the signature set is not present, you can deploy the signature set from the Deploy Pending Changes page of the Manager. Alternatively, for the respective Sensor, you may use the Sync option in the Device Manager page of the Manager.