After deploying Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) Virtual Edition (VE) to ESX server, then providing valid network information during the initial bootstrap, the ATP VE install fails to raise the management interface.

• Messages similar to the following will appear on screen during the bootstrap
  
  ERROR ERROR parsing output line: ERROR: Error creating CInterfaceConfig
INFO ERROR: Error creating CInterfaceConfig
   
• After bootstrap completes and reboots the ATP VE instance, output from the status_check command will contain multiple occurrences of the phrase "Management port is inactive".

Corrupt OVA file

1. Confirm integrity of the OVA file
2. If necessary, re-download the OVA and repeat step 1.
3. Delete the copy of the OVA from the ESX server.
4. Transfer the OVA to the ESX server
5. Re-deploy the OVA

To confirm the integrity of the OVA file

1. Download the OVA
2. Extract the OVA from the archive
3. Identify the filesize in bytes using the dir command
4. Generate MD5 and SHA-1 hashes with the fciv.exe utility from Microsoft, available on microsoft's website, here: Availability and description of the File Checksum Integrity Verifier utility (MSKB 841290)
5. Compare the file attributes to the table below