Configuration view table

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Hard and soft limits and Allocation limit messages

Show details of hard limit when reached

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 Hard and soft limits and Allocation limit messages

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

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

Enable virtual machine monitoring by default

If you select this option and monitoring is configured, see Configure VM Monitoring and Metrics and Abiquo Configuration Properties#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

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

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 Display infrastructure map

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 Display infrastructure map

Default zoom level for datacenters map

4

See Display infrastructure map

Number of IP addresses in lists

25

Allow remote access to virtual machines

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

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

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

URL of documentation home page

Show Users button on main toolbar

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

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

Restore default dashboards

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

Enable two-factor authentication

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

Require complex password

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

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

Reset password URI

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

Guest password email enabled

Send guest password by email to the user email address. To configure guest password length and characters, see Abiquo Configuration Properties#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"

Show help button

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

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

Default help URL

URL of the default help page