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title: "Installing the B1-105 Appliance"
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<span style="color: #000000">Before deploying the B1-105 appliance, consider the following when setting up your B1-105 appliance:</span>

- Ensure that review the <u><span style="color: #0000ff">*[connectivity and service requirements](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/createpage.action?spaceKey=BloxOneInfrastructure&title=NIOS-X%20Server%20Connectivity%20and%20Service%20Requirements)*</span></u> for the deployment.
- <span style="color: #000000">If you plan to configure the on-prem appliance using a static IP, obtain the IP address, subnet mask, gateway, and other DNS information.</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">For more deployment information, see </span><span style="color: #0000ff">*[Best Practices for Deploying NIOS-X Servers](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/BloxOneInfrastructure/pages/204538456)*</span><span style="color: #000000">.</span>

When you purchase the B1-105 appliance from Infoblox, the appliance is pre-provisioned and automatically appears on the list of NIOS-X servers in the Infoblox Portal. At this stage, the appliance is in a **Pending** state.

To activate the host connection to Infoblox Portal, complete the following:

1. <span style="color: #000000">Connect the following to your B1-105 appliance:</span>
  1. <span style="color: #000000">The power cable that comes with the appliance.</span>
  2. <span style="color: #000000">An Ethernet cable using the LAN2 port on the front of the appliance. (You must use the LAN2 port to connect the appliance in the initial setup. Once the appliance is up and running, you can use both the LAN1 and LAN2 ports in your configuration.)</span>  
**Note**: O<span style="color: #000000">n the Infoblox Portal, the LAN2 port appears as </span><span style="color: #000000">**enp1s0**</span><span style="color: #000000"> while the LAN1 port as </span><span style="color: #000000">**enp2s0**</span><span style="color: #000000">.</span>
2. <span style="color: #000000">Power up the appliance by pressing the power button and releasing it quickly. If your network has DHCP service available, your B1-105 appliance will automatically receive an IP address and Universal DDI can detect the appliance and its IP address.</span>  
**Note**: Once you power up the appliance, the appliance automatically enters the **Awaiting Approval** state. You can now log in to the Infoblox Portal to approve or deny the host connection.
3. <span style="color: #000000">If your network does not have DHCP servers available, the appliance will fall back to the default IP address 192.168.1.2. Configure the B1-105 appliance through an internet browser. To do so, the management PC or workstation on which you open the browser must have an IP address in the same subnet as the B1-105 appliance (for example, use 192.168.1.0/24 if your network does not have a DHCP server).</span>
4. <span style="color: #000000">Open the internet browser on the management PC or workstation and enter http://192.168.1.2 or http://</span><span style="color: #000000">*<allocated_IP>*</span><span style="color: #000000"> if the IP address was allocated via the DHCP server in your network.</span>
5. <span style="color: #000000">The bootstrap interface appears in the browser. Based on whether you are using DHCP or a static IP, select the respective Network Mode, and then enter the required IP address information. </span>
6. <span style="color: #000000">Click </span><span style="color: #000000">**Apply Changes**</span><span style="color: #000000"> on the bootstrap UI to submit the configuration changes.</span>

> ⚠️ ### Notes
> ⚠️ 
> ⚠️ - <span style="color: #000000">Once you have set up the B1-105 appliance successfully, you will not be able to access the bootstrap UI again. If you need to re-configure the appliance, you must first reset the appliance to the factory default. For information, see </span><u><span style="color: #0000ff">*[Setting B1-105 to Factory Default](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DeployBloxOneAppliance/pages/43778289)*</span></u><span style="color: #000000">. </span>
> ⚠️ - <span style="color: #000000">When connecting a hardware appliance to the Infoblox Portal, ensure that you DO NOT enter the join token in the Device UI. Otherwise, the appliance will lose connectivity to the Infoblox Portal when the host certificate expires. Instead, use the serial number of the appliance to connect to the Infoblox Portal.</span>

<span style="color: #000000">In addition, if you have not configured any NTP server or local DNS resolver, the appliance uses the Ubuntu NTP server (ntp.ubuntu.org or ubuntu.pool.ntp.org) and Infoblox DDI DNS (IP: 52.119.40.100). The communication to these services does not use the HTTPS proxy, and you must ensure that the NTP port (UDP 123) and the DNS port (TCP/UDP 53) are opened on your firewall</span>