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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:

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   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:

• Display VM initial password

• Reset guest password in vCloud Director

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

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

# 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.

To prepare a VM template for guest setup:

1. Go to Catalogue

2. Edit a template with cloud-init or hypervisor tools installed.

3. Go to Advanced

4. For Guest setup, select Cloud-Init or Hypervisor tools.

   1. For Windows on AWS, you can select from: CLOUDBASE_INIT, EC2LAUNCH_V2, EC2LAUNCH, EC2CONFIG

5. Select Guest initial password to generate an initial password according to platform configuration

   1. For Windows systems we strongly recommend this option

   2. The platform will log in with the template User and Password (see below) and change the Password to the guest initial password.
      The platform will send the guest initial password to the user via mail or SMS, and users can display it with the VM key button

6. For the User,enter the default user for the template

   1. On Windows, enter "Administrator"

   2. On Linux, enter "root" or another user that can run chpassword, with sudo and by always entering the password

      1. If sudo is not available, please contact Abiquo Support to configure the “nosudoerrequiredforuser” property

7. For the Password,enter the default password of the user on the VM template

   1. The platform does not save VM passwords

      1. On Linux, before deploying an instance template, edit the instance template's password to set it to the current VM password.

8. Select the Operating system. If required, enter the OS version. For more details see Set the guest operating system for VMware

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9. Optionally, go to Variables and set variables for the VM template. The platform will add these variables to the VM using metadata or user data. See VM variables

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10. If you are using Cloud-init or similar, you can enter a startup script or configuration on the Bootstrap tab. The platform will add this script to the VM and the VM user may also be able to modify it. For more details, see VM bootstrap script

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