Configuration View

Logo file

theme/abicloudDefault/img/logo.png

Directory and filename of the tenant logo file. The directory is relative to the Abiquo installation directory. The logo file should be a .png, .jpg or other web compatible image file. The resolution should be 72 ppi and the image size should be 130 x 70 pixels

Enable tutorials

Elements per page in main lists

25

URL displayed when the enterprise logo is clicked

This web page will be displayed when the Abiquo server has access to the URL

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

To display the report button, enter the report URL here. Clicking the icon will open this page and pass the user's enterprise as a parameter (in the form ?enterprise=1). Users must also have the Access Reports privilege in order to display the report icon and access the report page. By default this privilege is assigned to the cloud admin role

Allow user to change their password

Mark this checkbox to enable users to open a popup to edit their personal details by clicking on the link in the top right corner of the screen. The user personal details include the password if platform authentication is used. The information that can be edited varies, depending on the user. If this option is disabled, the user details can only be edited in Users view

Allow user to logout

Allow users to log out by clicking on the "logout" link in the top right corner of the screen. Otherwise the link will not be displayed, and users will only be logged out when their browser session ends

Show virtual machine hard disk tab

Display the virtual machine hard disk tab

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

If no URL is supplied, the login screen is opened after logout

Default view after login

0 : Home

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

• 0: Home
• 1: Infrastructure
• 2: Virtual Datacenters
• 3: Apps library
• 4: Pricing
• 5: Events

Show details of soft limits when reached

If this option is not selected, the soft limits message will state that the limits have been reached and allow the user to decide if they want to continue

Show details of hard limit when reached

If this option is not selected, the hard limits message will state that the limits have been reached and that the operation cannot be performed

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

Enable workflow

If workflow is enabled, in Virtual Datacenters view, the Workflow Tasks tab will display queued tasks. Before you enable workflow, enter the Workflow endpoint, otherwise tasks in progress will fail because of the missing endpoint

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

Refresh interval for remote template download progress (seconds)

10

How often the background process will check the download to update the progress bar when you Add VM Template from Remote Repository to the appliance library of a datacenter. The update interval is indicated by a countdown timer in the lower right corner of the screen

Default latitude for datacenters map

41.3825

The decimal latitude of the map location you will see when OpenStreetMap opens in the Infrastructure view. The default value is for Barcelona

Default longitude for datacenters map

2.176944

The decimal longitude of the map location you will see when OpenStreetMap opens in the Infrastructure view. The default value is for Barcelona

Default zoom level for datacenters map

4

Refresh interval for infrastructure data (seconds)

30

More than one cloud administrator can work with the same Abiquo platform at the same time. Thus the infrastructure page is updated so that changes in datacenters are propagated to all servers. The update interval is indicated by a countdown timer in the lower right corner of the screen in Infrastructure view

Refresh interval for event log (seconds)

10

How often Abiquo updates the display of the event log in the Home View

Number of IP addresses in lists

25

Allow remote access to virtual machines

When enabled, you can click the eye icon for a virtual machine within a virtual datacenter to open a hypervisor shell window. This option does not affect remote shell access (e.g. ssh). Otherwise, the eye icon is disabled. For more information 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. Indicated by a countdown timer in the bottom right corner of the screen on the Virtual Appliance page. For more information please see Manage Virtual Appliances

Refresh interval for virtual appliance (seconds)

30

How often the background process checks the state of virtual appliances and updates the state. Indicated by a countdown timer in the bottom right corner of the screen on the Virtual Appliance page. For more information please 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

Values displayed in gigabytes on the form for adding a new volume to a virtual datacenter. Enter values separated by commas with no spaces. You can enter values with decimal places and values lower than one

Default minimum VLAN ID

2

Default maximum VLAN ID

4094

Refresh interval for missing VM template conversions (seconds)

5

When you edit a virtual machine template in your appliance library (uploaded from local machine/downloaded from repository), you can launch a background process to generate all the missing template formats for other hypervisors. In the template formats list, the state of all template conversions is indicated and it gets refreshed by a background process. Because this is a pop-up screen, there is no countdown timer

Max quantity of IPs to create

1022

Name

default_private_network

The name of the default private VLAN

Netmask

2: /22 (255.255.252.0)

The network mask of the default private VLAN. In the UI, select from the pulldown list with the API numeric options given first:

• 0: /20 (255.255.240.0)
• 1: /21 (255.255.248.0)
• 2: /22 (255.255.252.0)
• 3: /23 (255.255.254.0)
• 4: /24 (255.255.255.0)
• 5: /25 (255.255.255.128)
• 6: /26 (255.255.255.192)
• 7: /27 (255.255.255.224)
• 8: /28 (255.255.255.240)

Network address

192.168.0.0

The network address of the default private VLAN

Gateway

192.168.0.1

The gateway of the network. Make sure the gateway is an IP address 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 users button is displayed, and both cloud administrators and enterprise administrators can edit users. If not selected, no users icon is displayed and no one can edit users until the cloud administrator changes this option

Refresh interval for dashboard (seconds)

30

Time interval between updates of the monitoring dashboard of the Home View to allow multiple users to make and see changes. Indicated with a countdown timer in the lower right-hand corner of the screen

URL to purchase licenses

URL that will be shown in Abiquo to enable users to purchase licenses

Enable two-factor authentication

If selected, it is possible to require two-factor authentication for the users of an enterprise, and any Abiquo user can enable two-factor authentication for their own account

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

Reset password URI

Enter a URI that the platform will redirect to when users request a password reset

Show help button

To display the help icon on all pop-ups, mark the Show help icon checkbox. This icon will take the user to the specific help page for the pop-up or the default help page

Show default help button

If there is no specific help page for a pop-up, show a default help page

Default help URL

To show the help icon on pop-ups without specific help pages. Otherwise, the default help icon will not display

Create datacenter

Edit datacenter

Manage remote services

Edit remote service

Create physical machine

Create rack

Mail notification

Create public VLAN

Create external VLAN

Create storage device

Create storage pools

Edit tiers

Set global allocation rules

Set datacenter allocation rules

Create virtual datacenter

Synchronize public cloud

Create virtual appliance

Create virtual appliance based on spec

Create virtual appliance spec

Create private network

Create public network

Create network IP

Create volume

Edit virtual machine

Create VM network interface

Create VM instance

Create persistent VM

Capture VM

More info while deploying VApp

Create VM layer

Create/edit firewall

Edit firewall rules

Create/edit load balancer

Manage virtual machine alarms

Manage virtual appliance alerts

VM template upload

Edit VM template

Export VM template

Manage spec versions

Create enterprise

Datacenter limits

Create user

Create role

Create scope

Create currency

Create cost code

Create pricing template

Configuration tab

License tab