Receive your Edge Appliance

Verify the package contents

Before connecting Edge Appliance, we strongly recommend that you verify that the package arrived intact, with all required cables and equipment.

After receiving Edge Appliance, verify that package contents are intact by doing the following:

Confirm that the shipping case and tamper-evident seals are intact.

Caution: If the tags on the shipping case are missing or broken, contact the Transfer Appliance Team.
Cut the tamper-evident wire tags and open the shipping case. You'll need side cutters or other wire cutting tool.

Contact the Transfer Appliance Team if any of the following items are missing:

Item	Description
	Envelope with shipping pouch, zip tie, and tamper-evident tags
	2 power cables
	2 power extension cables
	Ethernet cable
	Edge Appliance
	2 power bricks in a frame
	Dust cover, with key taped to the back

Validate the appliance

Edge Appliance supports two options for validating the integrity of the appliance:

Online attestation: the appliance verifies its integrity by communicating with Google Cloud over the network. Once your appliance is connected to the internet, it will automatically perform remote attestation without further action on your part. You should use this method if your network allows the appliance to use DHCP to obtain an IP address.
Offline attestation: before connecting the appliance to your network, you run an application on your laptop to validate that the appliance hasn't been tampered with during shipping. Use this method if your appliance requires a static IP address.

Online attestation

Your appliance is initially configured to use DHCP to obtain an IP address automatically. If your network setup supports this, follow these instructions to validate your appliance using online attestation.

Connect the appliance to your network. Connect an ethernet cable between the left-most port 1 on the appliance, shown in the lower-right circle in the image below, and an open RJ45 port that's connected to your network.
Use the two provided power cords to plug in the server. There are two power bricks in the inner center box, and two power cords in the side boxes.

The power supplies are redundant and the appliance will work with only one power cord. We recommend plugging one of the power cords into an uninterruptible power supply in case of a power outage.
Power on Edge Appliance by pressing the power button at the top-left shown in the upper-left circle in the image in step 1.
Go to the Google Cloud console. Verify that the correct project is selected.
If Cloud Shell doesn't open automatically, click Activate Cloud Shell. Cloud Shell may take a few minutes to finish activating.

Enter the following command to download the attestation application:

wget https://storage.googleapis.com/transferappliance/edge_attestation_passcode/edge_attestation_passcode_x86_64-linux -O edge_attestation_passcode_x86_64-linux

Run the attestation application. Make sure to replace APPLIANCE_ID with the correct value, as found in the Appliances page of the Google Cloud console.
```
chmod 0777 edge_attestation_passcode_x86_64-linux && ./edge_attestation_passcode_x86_64-linux --appliance_id=APPLIANCE_ID
```
The application displays the time since the most recent attestation. Confirm that this time is later than the time that you connected and powered on the appliance, and select Yes. If the time does not look correct, contact the Transfer Appliance Team for next steps.

After you've confirmed the value, your attestation passcode is returned.
Complete the form in the email titled Arrival and Validation Steps for Google Edge Appliance. Enter your attestation passcode in the form.

The Transfer Appliance Team will respond with your login credentials.

Continue to Connect and configure Edge Appliance.

Offline attestation

Before connecting the appliance to your network, you run an application on your laptop to validate that the appliance hasn't been tampered with during shipping.

The Edge Appliance Attestation Application supports the following 64-bit operating systems:

Linux kernel 2.6.23 or later
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 or later
Microsoft Windows 10
Apple macOS 10.11 or later

To validate the appliance, do the following:

Connect the ethernet cable between your laptop and the configuration port 3 on the front of the appliance shown in the lower-right circle in the image below:
Connect the power bricks to the 2 power sockets on the rear of the appliance, and plug them into a power source using the supplied cables:
Power on Edge Appliance by pressing the power button on the top-left shown in the upper-left circle in the image in step 1.

Use ping to verify that you can contact the appliance through its configuration port:

ping 169.254.20.1

The following sample response resembles the output that is returned:

PING 169.254.20.1 (169.254.20.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 169.254.20.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.060 ms
64 bytes from 169.254.20.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.039 ms
64 bytes from 169.254.20.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.039 ms
^C
--- 169.254.20.1 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2045ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.039/0.046/0.060/0.009 ms

To download the Edge Appliance Attestation Application to your laptop, do the following:
Microsoft Windows
1. Download the Edge Appliance Attestation Application to your laptop.
2. Open a Command Prompt, and navigate to the location where you downloaded the Edge Appliance Attestation Application.
3. To validate the appliance, run the following command on your laptop:
```
taattestator_x86_64-windows.exe
```
Linux
1. On your laptop, open a terminal app.
2. To download the Edge Appliance Attestation Application, run the following command on your laptop:
```
wget https://storage.googleapis.com/transferappliance/attestator/taattestator_x86_64-linux
```
3. Run the following commands on your laptop to validate the appliance:
```
chmod 0777 taattestator_x86_64-linux
./taattestator_x86_64-linux
```
Apple macOS
1. Open the Terminal app.
2. Run the following command on your laptop to download the Edge Appliance Attestation Application:
```
curl -O https://storage.googleapis.com/transferappliance/attestator/taattestator_x86_64-darwin
```
3. Run the following commands on your laptop to validate the appliance:
```
chmod 0777 taattestator_x86_64-darwin
./taattestator_x86_64-darwin
```
Complete the form in the email titled Arrival and Validation Steps for Google Edge Appliance. Enter the Edge Appliance Attestation Passcode returned by the appliance in the form.

If the device was not tampered with during shipping, the Transfer Appliance Team provides the appliance login credentials.

If the device was tampered with during shipping, the Transfer Appliance Team provides you with return shipping instructions, and arranges for another appliance to ship to you.