Configuration view

This page describes general configuration. For licenses, see https://abiquo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/doc/pages/334037612

Introduction to configuration view

In Configuration view, administrators configure many aspects of the platform, including the user interface, infrastructure defaults, password security, licenses, and so on.

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

Privileges: Access Configuration view, Modify configuration data

Configuration view
Configuration view

Configuration view changelog

See https://abiquo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/doc/pages/311368241


Modify platform configuration using the API

API Documentation

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


Configuration view table

 

General

Default

Notes

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

See https://abiquo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/doc/pages/311375478

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

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

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

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

Enable virtual machine monitoring by default

If you select this option and monitoring is configured, see and 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)

https://packer-repo.s3.amazonaws.com/ovfindex.xml

From the Abiquo 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

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

Default zoom level for datacenters map

4

See

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

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

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

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

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

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

See

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

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

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 . 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

Guest password email enabled

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

 

Antiaffinity

 

Backup GB

 

Backup policy

 

Extra charges

 

CPU

 

CPU off

 

CPU on

 

DRAAS

 

External storage

 

Firewall

 

Hardware profile

 

Hardware profile off

 

Hardware profile on

 

IP

 

Load balancer

 

Local storage

 

Local tier

 

Memory

 

Memory off

 

Memory on

 

Repository

 

VLAN

 

Virtual machine

 

Virtual machine off

 

Virtual machine on

 

Default

Notes

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

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

URL of the default help page

 


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

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

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://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

 

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