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nameConfigure guest initial password

The platform can set an initial password for a VM before it deploys. The administrator can configure this option in a VM template but the user may then edit the VM to change the option.

To configure guest initial passwords, do these steps.

  1. To configure the length and characters, on the Abiquo API server edit abiquo.properties and set the following properties:

    Code Block
    abiquo.guest.password.exclude
abiquo.guest.password.length

    For more details see Abiquo configuration properties

  2. To customize messages see the following pages.

    1. Customize emails for guest password

    2. Customize emails for guest password SMS

  3. To enable guest initial passwords, in Abiquo, go to Configuration view → Security (see Configuration view).

    1. To enable password emails, select the Enable password emails option

    2. To enable password SMS, enter the SMS gateway address

  4. In Abiquo, load and configure appropriate VM templates! See Edit VM templates for guest setup

Related pages:

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Configure FQDN

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nameConfigure FQDN

Abiquo can set a hostname and fully qualified domain name (FQDN) before the VM is deployed.

Tip

If a user enters an FQDN when they configure the VM, this will override the defaults because it is the highest priority FQDN

If the user does not enter an FQDN, Abiquo uses the following default:

  • Abiquo database ID (on Windows) or the VM_uuid (on Linux, etc); and

  • VM network domain name (from VM NIC or VDC default network) or localdomain

To change the default to always generate the automatic VM name from the database ID:

  1. Login to the Abiquo API Server as administrator

  2. Edit the abiquo.properties file and set the following property

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# Generate VM name from database ID. If false use VM_uuid on Linux and VM_database ID on Windows  
abiquo.api.experimental.hostname13charsFromVirtualMachineDatabaseId=true

After the user deploys the VM, the user can change the FQDN in the VM operating system. In this case, Abiquo will update the FQDN stored in the platform.

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Prepare templates for cloud-init

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