Nova dashboard barclamp

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Overview

The Nova Dashboard Barclamp installs and configures the Openstack Horizon project. This was once known as nova_dashboard. The dashboard is a UI interface to all the other components.

The Nova Dashboard requires a keystone instance. It can be optionally configured to use a MySQL instance for storing its data.

More information can be found here: http://horizon.openstack.org/#.

Roles

The Nova Dashboard Barclamp provides a single role: nova_dashboard-server. This role installs and configures the Nova Dashboard server.

Scripts

The barclamp provides a single nova_dashboard cookbook. The cookbook handles installation and configuration of the dashboard.

Parameters

The barclamp has the following parameters:

Name	Default	Description
keystone_instance	String name of the proposal	Instance of the Keystone barclamp to use
sql_engine	mysql or sqlite	MySQL uses the instance specified in mysql_instance. If no MySQL is present, it will default to a local sqlite database
mysql_instance	String name of the proposal	Instance of the MySQL barclamp to use
show_swift	false or true	Tells Dashboard to show swift components. Defaults to false unless a swift proposal is detected.

Operations

The Nova Dashboard provides a UI on port 80 of the nova_dashboard-server. Using the keystone credentials, you can access the system.

Useful Commands and Information

The UI is very useful for managing the other services.

Limitations and/or Futures

There are a few problems.

1. The dashboard doesn't maintain SQL connections to pieces so pages sometimes fail. You need to retry pages a couple of times.
2. The VNC proxy for VMs only works on firefox.