Contents

Overview·· 1

Installation and startup· 2

Requirements on the host PC· 2

Supported macOS operating systems· 2

Installing the macOS iNode management center 2

Starting up the macOS iNode management center 3

Uninstallation· 6

Overview

The macOS iNode management center is designed to customize iNode clients running in macOS operating systems and manage the client customization history. This document describes how to install and uninstall the macOS iNode management center.

·     iNode Client: A multifunctional access software that can network with Ethernet switches, routers and other devices. Together with IMC EIA/EAD, it can realize authentication and security check of access users.

·     IMC: Intelligent Management Center (IMC) is a comprehensive network management product launched by H3C based on B/S architecture. IMC focuses on network management, with emphasis on network resources, users, and services, providing a unified solution for administrators to manage networks end-to-end.

·     EIA: Endpoint Intelligent Access (EIA) provides unified network access policies for managing wired, wireless, and VPN networks for enterprises. It offers precision network access control for employees, visitors, and device administrators based on user role, device type, access time and location. This ensures seamless execution of endpoint security policies across the network, meeting the needs of unified operation and management for multiple network access types, endpoint types, and user roles in an enterprise.

·     EAD: Endpoint Admission Defense (EAD) controls user endpoint security access to the network, integrating network access control and endpoint security products. Through the collaboration of security clients, security policy servers, network devices, and third-party software, EAD enforces enterprise security policies on user endpoints accessing the network, strictly controlling endpoint user network behaviors and effectively enhancing proactive defense capabilities. It provides network administrators with effective and easy-to-use management tools and solutions.

Installation and startup

Requirements on the host PC

·     If the iNode client cannot communicate with the iNode management center in real time, the iNode client cannot be automatically upgraded through the iNode management center. As a best practice, install the iNode management center on a computer that is continuously online and has a fixed IP address.

·     The iNode management center cannot be installed on a virtual machine.

Supported macOS operating systems

The macOS iNode management center supports installation on popular macOS operating systems, including:

·     macOS 10.9

·     macOS 10.10

·     macOS 10.11

·     macOS 10.12

·     macOS 10.13

·     macOS 10.14

·     macOS 10.15.11

·     macOS 11.4

·     macOS 11.5

·     macOS 11.6

·     macOS 12.0

·     macOS 12.1

·     macOS 13

Installing the macOS iNode management center

In a macOS system, the iNode management center does not need to be installed. Double-click the iNode management center installation file to unpack the file. Once unpacked, it can be used. This example uses macOS 13 to demonstrate how to decompress the macOS iNode management center.

1.     Copy the macOS iNode management center installation file to a user directory. Replicate the installation file iNodeManager_H3C.tar.gz to the personal directory of the logged-in user as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1 Replicating the installation file to a user directory

2.     Decompress the macOS iNode management center installation file. Double-click the installation file to extract it, and the installation directory obtained after extraction is shown as Figure 2.

Figure 2 Decompressing the installation file

Starting up the macOS iNode management center

After decompression, iNode Management Center can be directly launched on macOS without the need to restart the operating system.

1.     Go to the installation directory of the macOS iNode management center, which is the decompression directory of the installation package. In this example, it is /Users/inode/Desktop/iNodeManagerSetup/iNodeManager.

Figure 3 macOS iNode management center installation directory

2.     Double-click iNodeManager to open the main interface of the macOS iNode management center, as shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4 macOS iNode Management Center main interface

Uninstallation

To uninstall the macOS iNode management center:

1.     Close the running macOS iNode management center.

2.     Delete the entire installation directory.