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  1. In the main menu go to the Infrastructure tab, select the Private tab then select your datacenter. Go to the Network tab and the External sub-tab and choose your network.

  2. In the External IPs pane find some IPs that are not currently in use, if necessary they can be selected and reserved or quarantined to avoid them being used elsewhere. For more details see Put an IP address on a deny https://abiquo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/doc/pages/311371160/Manage+external+networks#How-to-put-an-IP-on-a-deny-list

    Find and reserve IPs

Create the rack, the physical machine and the allocation rule

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  1. In the main menu go to the Catalogue tab, select Services, click the + add button then choose AWXRepoService.

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  2. Go to the Can be used by tab, click the + add button and select the Enterprise entity. Repeat to add the Virtual datacenter entity

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  3. Go to the Properties tab and complete the dialog. In this demo system, we will only be using one AWX configuration, so we can add the AWX endpoint and credentials to the default service. Also add your Abiquo endpoint and credentials. 

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Configure and launch the AWXRepoService

  1. To configure the AWXRepoService at enterprise level, in the main menu go to the Users tab, select your enterprise, go to the Service configurations tab, click the + add button in the Service configurations pane then choose AWXRepoService.

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    Note that you can also configure Service with an AWX system at the datacenter level, in which case the Enterprise Admin can enable it for a location and the end users can work with it in the virtual datacenter. 

  2. In the Create service configuration popup, go to Properties, add the credentials and click Save.

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  3. Back in the Service configuration pane, select AWXRepoService, then choose List workflows from the menu that appears alongside it to import the workflow.

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  4. A popup window will appear asking Do you want to perform action List workflows? Click Accept.

  5. In the subsequent popup, select the required subservice.

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  6. An Edit service configuration popup will appear, click Save

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  7. Back in the Service configuration pane, select the workflow you have imported, then choose Launch from the menu that appears alongside it to launch the workflow.  

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  8. In the Launch popup, select the virtual datacenter. Note that you can click the magnifying glass icon to display the details of the virtual datacenter. Click Accept to launch the job.

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Abiquo obtains the parameters from the AWX workflow. Your Systems Administrator can create an appropriate configuration for your environment, so it could differ from the configuration shown here.

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