topic Test for new getting started guide - your help is needed in Hyperscale Firewall (Maestro)

Test for new getting started guide - your help is needed

Anatoly — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 10:00:40 GMT

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to ask your help to test our new Getting started guide.

This is the guide for initial configuration of setup with two MHO-140 and some gateways.

Accordingly to our expectations, if you follow this guide (starting from page #8), you should be able to bring setup working at the basic level in less than 1 hour.

Please try it in your labs. PS colleagues – please try to use it next time you deploy at your customers.

Please DO NOT use your personal knowledge for shortcuts this time, it is critical for us to ensure this guide provide all required knowledge even for newbies.

Thank you for cooperation and please report about results and difficulties if any!

Re: Test for new getting started guide - your help is needed

Timothy_Hall — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 14:37:17 GMT

Nice guide, a few things you may wish to add:

1) Probably should add at least a reference to the the supported "mix and match" combos in the case someone is cobbling together a Maestro system from existing gateways instead of receiving them all at once in a new order

2) The cabling of the downlinks and uplinks (along with configuration of switches/routers attached to uplinks in regards to bonding/VLANs) is a major struggle for most customers and generates lots of TAC calls. Pages 54-75 of the CCME R81.10 course integrates a lot of tips and cabling limitations I ran into when attempting to cable up my first Maestro stack; you may want to look through these pages for some extra detail to include.

Thanks!

Re: Test for new getting started guide - your help is needed

the_rock — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 14:44:48 GMT

Im learning about Maestro and guides like this one are fantastic! Thanls a lot @Anatoly

Re: Test for new getting started guide - your help is needed

Anatoly — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 14:45:20 GMT

Hi Timothy,

Very appreciate your feedback. Regarding Mix and Match - it is included in full admin guide, but the aim of this getting started is to let people establish environment at basic level. The same reason - we do not explain here about VSX, for example. For more advanced features and settings we have admin guide.

But in any case, it would be nice if you will dry run this guide in your lab.

Thank you so much!

Re: Test for new getting started guide - your help is needed

the_rock — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 14:46:30 GMT

I did have a question @Anatoly , apologies if it may sound a bit silly, but I read somehwere that Maestro solution is strictly active-active, is that true? Is there no actual active-standby config like in regular cluster?

Andy

Re: Test for new getting started guide - your help is needed

Anatoly — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 14:46:53 GMT

Thank you!!!

Re: Test for new getting started guide - your help is needed

Anatoly — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 15:19:04 GMT

Currently there's no Active/Active between sites, however gateways are Active/Active within the Active site

Re: Test for new getting started guide - your help is needed

the_rock — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 15:20:23 GMT

Ah, kk...so gateways cant be active/standby?

Re: Test for new getting started guide - your help is needed

Anatoly — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 15:49:00 GMT

nope. It's Active / Active by design. That is all beauty of Maestro 😉

Re: Test for new getting started guide - your help is needed

the_rock — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 15:52:46 GMT

Noted, thank you @Anatoly 🙂

Re: Test for new getting started guide - your help is needed

Juan_Carlos_Rom — Wed, 03 May 2023 15:21:17 GMT

Hi Anatoly,

My comments:

- I would include information about JHF installation (at least when we recommend to do it like before the SG configuration, etc.).

- I would move chapters like Hardware Components, Mounting in a Rack, etc, before "Getting Started with MHO-140" chapter.

- And the last, I would also include licensing information information for Maestro inside Getting started chapter.

Great doc!!

Best regards,

Juan Carlos.

Re: Test for new getting started guide - your help is needed

Anatoly — Wed, 03 May 2023 15:29:04 GMT

Hi Juan,

Regarding JHF - this is next step. The purpose of this document was to run system at basic level. JHF is not there as this is not mandatory step to let system run. Regarding license - the same.

About moving mounting to other place - we will consider

Re: Test for new getting started guide - your help is needed

Daniel_Szydelko — Fri, 05 May 2023 07:30:09 GMT

Hi Anatoly,

What about adding info from sk169732?

Daniel

Re: Test for new getting started guide - your help is needed

Anatoly — Fri, 05 May 2023 08:55:06 GMT

Hi Daniel,

For this thing we have set maestro configuration orchestrator-member-id command

Thanks