AVE 19.4 fresh install, avinstaller not accepting root / changeme

Hi all,

I am trying to deploy AVE 19.4 latest version, freshly downloaded from dell.com on the newest vCenter 6.5 patchlevel, from .ovf. I have the correct forward / reverse DNS entries and correct system times.

The problem is that the default gateway is not responding to ping, allegedly "for security reasons". I am assured it is not just to make my life hard.

As a result, avenetconfig throws a warning, but then says an error has occurred.

Is this a showstopper?

The problem is when I browse to the AVInstaller page, it refuses to accept root / changeme, even though it's a brand new installation and I just used root / changeme to set the network parameters!

AVE 19.4 initial boot configAVE 19.4 fresh install refusing root / changeme