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This document describes how to install a basic Abiquo environment using the Abiquo OVAs. |
Required skills
Some essential system administration skills required for managing the cloud platform are as follows:
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Log in to your monolithic server
Check that the NFS repository is mounted at
/opt/vm_repositoryCheck that the owner of the NFS repository is
tomcat:root, and if not, set it as followsCode Block chown -R tomcat:root /opt/vm_repository chmod -R a+r /opt/vm_repository
Monitoring server install from the OVA
The Abiquo monitoring appliance is optional. To deploy the Monitoring appliance, you will need to enter the following parameter.
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Friendly hostname | The name the appliance will use internally. It is the entire FQDN the UI will have. |
Management IP address | IP of the server’s NIC on the Management Network |
Management IP netmask | Netmask of the Management network |
Default gateway | Default gateway of the NIC on the Management network |
DNS server list | IPs of DNS servers in a list, separate by spaces |
NTP server list | Your servers will use these NTP servers to keep their clocks synchronized |
RabbitMQ IP | The IP address where the rabbitmq runs. In monolithic environment it will be the IP address of the Monolithic server. In distributed environment it will be the IP address of the Abiquo server. |
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Allow ICMP You must allow ICMP between all components of the Abiquo platform, including hypervisors. |
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Browser requirements
Abiquo UI requires a screen resolution of at least 1024 x 768 for productive work.
It is based on HTML5 so browsers must support these HTML5 features: Forms block, Drag and drop.
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