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To access Configuration view:, click the cog Configuration view icon on the main menu

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Privileges: Access Configuration view, Modify configuration data

  1. Click the cog Configuration view icon on the main menu

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Configuration view changelog

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Tip

API Documentation

For the Abiquo API documentation of this feature, see Abiquo API Resources and the page for this resource SystemPropertiesResource.

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Configuration view table

General

Default

Notes

Logo file

theme/abicloudDefault/img/logo.png

Directory and filename of the default enterprise logo file. The directory is relative to the Abiquo UI folder. The logo file should be a .png, .jpg, or other web compatible image file. The resolution should be 72 PPI and the space reserved for the image is 48 x 48 pixels

Enable tutorials

(tick)

See Abiquo tutorials for onboarding users

Elements per page in main lists

25

Refresh interval (seconds) for all views (set to 0 to disable automatic refresh)

600

URL displayed when the enterprise logo is clicked

https://www.abiquo.com

To display this page, the Abiquo server must have access to the URL

Display Report button linked to this URL (empty -> no Report button display)

To enable users to display this button, also assign the privilege to access reports to their user roles. For more details, see the Abiquo reports with Jaspersoft section

Reporting logout URL (empty -> no logout from Abiquo)

Before the user enters Reports through the UI, the platform will use this URL to log out from any previous sessions in Reports

Allow user to change their password

(tick)

Select this option to enable users to open a dialog to edit their personal details

Allow user to change their password

(tick)

Select this option to enable users to open a dialog to edit their personal details from the menu of the User icon in the bottom left corner of the screen. The user can change their password if platform authentication is used. If you disable this option, you can only edit users in Users view. See Configure the user icon menu

Allow user to log out

(tick)

Allow users to log out by selecting Log out from the menu of the User icon in the bottom left corner of the screen.

The user can change their password if platform authentication is used. If you disable this option, you can only edit users in Users view. See Configure the user icon menu

Allow user to log out

(tick)

Allow users to log out by selecting Log out from the menu of the User icon in the bottom left corner of the screen. Otherwise Log out will not display on the menu, and users will only be logged out when their browser session ends

Show virtual machine hard disk tab

(tick)

Display the VM Hard disk tab

Redirect to this URL

Otherwise Log out will not display on the menu, and users will only be logged out when their browser session ends

Show virtual machine hard disk tab

(tick)

Display the VM Hard disk tab

Redirect to this URL after logout (empty -> login screen)

If you do not enter a logout URL, the platform displays the login screen after the user logs out

Default view after login

Home

Select from the list of Abiquo views - Home, Infrastructure, etc. The Home view dashboard is the system default. If another view is set as the system default and the user does not have enough privileges to display it, the Home view will display

Show details of soft limits when reached

(tick)

If you do not select this option, the soft limits message states that the user has reached the soft limit, and asks if they want to continue. See https://abiquo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/doc/pages/311370496/Manage+virtual+datacenters#Manage-resource-allocation-limits-for-a-virtual-datacenter

Show details of hard limit when reached

(tick)

If you do not select this option, the hard limits message states that the user has reached the hard limit and that the operation cannot be performed. See https://abiquo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/doc/pages/311370496/Manage+virtual

+datacenters#Manage-resource-allocation-limits-for-a-virtual-datacenter

Workflow endpoint

Enter the URL endpoint for the workflow process. If workflow is enabled, Abiquo will send workflow requests to this URL. The workflow endpoint is the URL of the web application that connects to the workflow tool. If you do not have the URL for the workflow endpoint, check with your system administrator. See Abiquo workflow feature

Enable workflow

(error)

If you select this option, the platform will hold deploy and reconfigure tasks and display the queue in Virtual datacenters view on the Workflow tasks tab. Before you enable workflow, enter the Workflow endpoint, otherwise any tasks in progress will fail because of the missing endpoint. See Abiquo workflow feature

+datacenters#Manage-resource-allocation-limits-for-a-virtual-datacenter

Enable virtual machine monitoring by default

(error)

If you select this option and monitoring is configured, see Configure VM monitoring and metrics and Abiquo configuration properties for .monitoring., by default the platform will fetch metrics for each VM and display all metrics on the VM graph. This property will apply to all VMs created after you change its value, including newly captured VMs. In the API, the value of client.main.monitorEnabled system property is set to 0 for disabled or 1 for enabled

Infrastructure

Default

Notes

Default Abiquo template repo (will not be created if empty)

http

https://

abiquo

packer-

repository

repo.s3.

abiquo

amazonaws.com/ovfindex.xml

The

From the Abiquo

template repo is now found at https://packer-repo.s3.amazonaws.com/ovfindex.xml

remote template repository you can download sample templates

Default latitude for datacenters map

41.3825

The decimal latitude of the map location to display when the map opens in the Infrastructure view. The default value is for Barcelona. See Infrastructure view

Default longitude for datacenters map

2.176944

The decimal longitude of the map location to display when the map opens in the Infrastructure view. The default value is for Barcelona. See Infrastructure view

Default zoom level for datacenters map

4

See Infrastructure view

Number of IP addresses in lists

25

Allow remote access to virtual machines

(tick)

If you select this option, you can click the console icon of a VM in a virtual datacenter to open a remote access console. This option does not affect remote shell access outside of Abiquo. Otherwise, the console icon is disabled. See Configure remote access to virtual machines

Refresh interval for virtual appliance deployment progress (seconds)

5

How often the background process checks the deployment of virtual appliances and updates the virtual appliance state. See Manage virtual appliances

Default hypervisor password

temporal

Default hypervisor port

Default Hypervisor user

root

Allowed virtual storage volume sizes (gigabytes)

1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256

The platform displays these values in gigabytes to select when adding a new volume in private cloud. Enter values separated by commas with no spaces. You can enter values with decimal places and values lower than one

Default minimum network ID

2

Default maximum network ID

4094

Max quantity of IPs to create

1022

Network

Default

Notes

Name

default_private_network

The name of the default private network

Netmask

24

The network mask of the default private network

Network address

192.168.0.0

The network address of the default private network

Address range

192.168.0.0/16

The default address range for the virtual datacenter network

Gateway

192.168.0.1

The gateway of the network. The gateway IP address must be inside the range defined by the network address and the network mask

Primary DNS

Secondary DNS

DNS suffix

Dashboard

Default

Notes

URL of documentation home page

https://wiki.abiquo.com

Show Users button on main toolbar

(tick)

If selected, the platform displays the Users view button, and administrators can edit users. If not selected, the platform does not display the button, and no one can edit users until the cloud administrator changes this option

URL to purchase licenses

///www.abiquo.com/license

URL that will display in Abiquo to enable users to purchase licenses

Enable maintenance mode

(error)

Enable the display of maintenance window notices. See Show maintenance notices

Maintenance start time

Specify the start of the maintenance period in JavaScript date-time format: yyyy-mm-ddTHH:MM:ss.lo, for example, 2018-10-19T11:00:00.000+0200

Maintenance end time

Specify the end of the maintenance period in JavaScript date-time format: yyyy-mm-ddTHH:MM:ss.lo, for example, 2018-10-20T11:00:00.000+0200

Additional maintenance info URL

Link on the maintenance popup to add additional information about the maintenance. See Show maintenance notices

Restore default dashboards

Click this button to restore the default dashboards to display Metrics, Hybrid, and Optimization tabs.

Security

Default

Notes

Enable two-factor authentication

(error)

See Configure two factor authentication

No. of previous passwords that cannot be repeated

1

Set a history value to prevent users from repeating old passwords. The platform will check new passwords against the password history. The range of values is 0 to 100, and the default value of 1 password means that users cannot repeat the previous password. To disable this check, set the value to 0

Maximum password age (days)

0

Prevent users from keeping the same password for a long time by setting a maximum password age. The range of values is from 0 to 999 days. To disable this check, set the value to 0

Minimum time between password changes (days)

0

Prevent users from quickly changing their password, especially back to an old password by setting a minimum password age. This is the minimum time from when a password is changed until the password can be changed again. The range of values is from 0 to 999 days. To disable this check, set the value to 0

Minimum password length

8

Prevent users from creating short passwords that are easier to break by setting a minimum password length.

The range of values is from 1 to 21 characters

The range of values is from 1 to 21 characters

Days before password expiry on which the platform will notify the user by mail

1,5,14

Up to three values separated by comma (1,5,14 default). For more details, see Notify users before their password expires

Require complex password

(error)

If selected, the user must enter a complex password. A complex password must not contain the user's name and must include at least three of the following five categories - uppercase letters, lowercase letters, digits, non-alphanumeric characters, and other Unicode characters

Tries before user account is locked

0

Number of unsuccessful login attempts that a user can make before their account is locked. The range of values is 0 to 5 tries. The default value of 0 means that the check is disabled by default

Account lock duration (minutes)

1

Length of time in minutes that a user account is locked after the user has made too many unsuccessful login attempts. The range of values is from 1 to 60 minutes

Allow password reset

(error)

If selected, the platform will allow a user to reset their password. See Configure passwords . Further configuration and ReCaptcha is required

Reset password URI

http://localhost/ui/

Enter a URI that the platform will redirect to when users request a password reset. See Configure passwords

Guest password email enabled

(error)

Send guest password by email to the user email address. To configure guest password length and characters, see Abiquo configuration properties for .guest.

Guest password SMS gateway

The URL of an SMS gateway (e.g. email.smsgateway.example.com) for sending guest password by SMS. Leave empty to disable this feature. The platform will send an email to user phone number@sms gateway

Billing

Default

Notes

Enable on premise billing

(tick)

Antiaffinity

(tick)

Backup GB

(tick)

Backup policy

(tick)

Extra charges

(tick)

CPU

(tick)

CPU off

(tick)

CPU on

(tick)

DRAAS

(tick)

External storage

(tick)

Firewall

(tick)

Hardware profile

(tick)

Hardware profile off

(tick)

Hardware profile on

(tick)

IP

(tick)

Load balancer

(tick)

Local storage

(tick)

Local tier

(tick)

Memory

(tick)

Memory off

(tick)

Memory on

(tick)

Repository

(tick)

VLAN

(tick)

Virtual machine

(tick)

Virtual machine off

(tick)

Virtual machine on

(tick)

Default

Notes

Show help button

(tick)

If selected, display the help button on all dialogs. When users click this icon, the platform will open the specific help page for the dialog or the default help page

Show default help button

(error)

For pop-ups without a specific help page link, display the default help button to link to the default help page

Default help URL

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Abiquo+Documentation+Home

URL of the default help page

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Configuration view wiki links table

Dashboard

Default

Manage dashboards and widgets

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Manage+Dashboards

Infrastructure

Default

Create datacenter

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Create+a+datacenter

Edit datacenter

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Edit+a+

datacenter

datacenter

Manage remote services

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Manage+remote+services

Create physical machine

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Create+a+physical+machine

Create rack

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Create+a+rack

Mail notification

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Mail+notifications

Manage hardware profiles

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Hardware+profiles

Manage protection managers

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Protection+managers

Manage hardware profile families and types

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Hardware+profile+families+and+types

Manage Xaas

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Abiquo+XaaS

Create public network

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Manage+Public+Networks

Create external network

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Manage+External+Networks

Manage excluded networks

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Manage+excluded+networks

Manage devices

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Manage+Devices

Manage NAT

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Manage+NAT

Manage NAT QoS

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Manage+NAT+QoS

Manage Public QoS

 

Manage adress ranges

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Manage+address+ranges

Create storage device

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Manage+Storage#ManageStorage-CreatePersistentStorageDevices

Create storage pools

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Manage+Storage#ManageStorage-StoragePools

Edit tiers

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Manage+Storage#ManageStorage-ManageStorageServiceLevelswithTiers

Manage datastore tiers

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Manage+Datastore+Service+Levels+with+Datastore+Tiers

Set global allocation rules

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Allocation+rules

Set datacenter allocation rules

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Allocation+rules

Manage backup policies

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Backup

Edit backup policy properties

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Edit+backup+policy+properties

Manage backup manager

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Backup

Virtual datacenters

Default

Create virtual datacenter

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Manage+virtual+datacenters

Synchronize public cloud

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Onboard+from+public+cloud

Create virtual appliance

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Manage+virtual+appliances

Create virtual appliance based on spec

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Create+a+virtual+appliance+based+on+a+spec

Create virtual appliance spec

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Create+a+virtual+appliance+spec

Create private network

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Create+a+private+network

Create public network

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Obtain+public+IP+addresses

Create network IP

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Create+a+network+IP

Reserve IP(s) for virtual datacenter

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Reserve+private+IPs+for+virtual+datacenters

Manage NAT IPs

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Manage+NAT+for+virtual+datacenters

Create volume

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Create+a+volume

Create virtual machine

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Create+a+virtual+machine

Edit virtual machine

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Configure+Virtual+Machines

Create VM network interface

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/VM+network

Create VM instance

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Save+VM+disks+to+create+an+instance+template

Create persistent VM

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Manage+Persistent+Storage+and+VMs#ManagePersistentStorageandVMs-CreatepersistentVMsusingpersistenttemplates

Capture VM

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Import+and+Capture+Virtual+Machines

More info while deploying VApp

Create VM layer

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Create+a+VM+layer

Manage scaling group

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Manage+Scaling+Groups

Manage snapshots

 https

 https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Manage+snapshots

Create/edit firewall

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Manage+Firewalls

Edit firewall rules

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Edit+firewall+policy+rules

Manage classic firewalls and rules

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Manage+classic+firewalls

Create/edit load balancer

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Manage+Load+Balancers

Manage VPNs

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Manage+VPNs

Manage availability sets

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Manage+Availability+Sets

Manage virtual machine alarms

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Manage+cloud+alarms

Manage resource tags

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Manage+Tags

Manage resource groups

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Manage+Resource+Groups

Manage global networks and subnets

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Manage+global+networks+and+subnets

Catalogue

Default

VM template upload

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Add+VM+templates+to+the+catalogue

Edit VM template

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Modify+a+VM+Template

Export VM template

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/VM+Template+Mobility

Manage spec versions

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Define+the+version+of+a+spec+to+use

Users

Default

Create enterprise

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Manage+enterprises

Datacenter limits

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Configure+an+Enterprise+in+a+Cloud+Location

Create user

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Create+a+user

Create role

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Manage+Roles

Create scope

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Manage+Scopes

Manage themes

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Themes+management

Pricing

Default

Create currency

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Pricing+view

Create extra charge

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Create+an+extra+charge

Create pricing template

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Create+a+new+pricing+model

Manage price factors

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Manage+price+factors

Manage extra charges

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Manage+extra+charges+with+cost+codes

Control

Default

Manage action plans, schedule and alert triggers

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Manage+Action+Plans

Manage alerts

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Manage+Alerts

Manage budgets

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Manage+Budgets

Manage tag policies

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Manage+tag+policies+and+compliance

Configuration

Default

Configuration tab

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Configuration+View

License tab

https://wiki.abiquo.com/display/doc/Configure+licenses