Install the dashboard

Before you can install and configure the dashboard, meet the requirements in the section called “System requirements”.

	Note
	When you install only Object Storage and the Identity Service, even if you install the dashboard, it does not pull up projects and is unusable.

For more information about how to deploy the dashboard, see deployment topics in the developer documentation.

Install the dashboard on the node that can contact the Identity Service as root:
```
# yum install memcached python-memcached mod_wsgi openstack-dashboard
```

Modify the value of CACHES['default']['LOCATION'] in /etc/openstack-dashboard/local_settings to match the ones set in /etc/sysconfig/memcached.

Open /etc/openstack-dashboard/local_settings and look for this line:

CACHES = {
'default': {
'BACKEND' : 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.MemcachedCache',
'LOCATION' : '127.0.0.1:11211'
}
}

Notes

	Notes
The address and port must match the ones set in `/etc/sysconfig/memcached`. If you change the memcached settings, you must restart the Apache web server for the changes to take effect. You can use options other than memcached option for session storage. Set the session back-end through the `SESSION_ENGINE` option. To change the timezone, use the dashboard or edit the `/etc/openstack-dashboard/local_settings` file. Change the following parameter: `TIME_ZONE = "UTC"`

The address and port must match the ones set in /etc/sysconfig/memcached.
If you change the memcached settings, you must restart the Apache web server for the changes to take effect.
You can use options other than memcached option for session storage. Set the session back-end through the SESSION_ENGINE option.
To change the timezone, use the dashboard or edit the /etc/openstack-dashboard/local_settings file.
Change the following parameter: TIME_ZONE = "UTC"

Update the ALLOWED_HOSTS in local_settings.py to include the addresses you wish to access the dashboard from.
Edit /etc/openstack-dashboard/local_settings:
```
ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['localhost', 'my-desktop']
    
```
This guide assumes that you are running the Dashboard on the controller node. You can easily run the dashboard on a separate server, by changing the appropriate settings in local_settings.py.
Edit /etc/openstack-dashboard/local_settings and change OPENSTACK_HOST to the hostname of your Identity Service:
```
OPENSTACK_HOST = "controller"
    
```
Ensure that the SELinux policy of the system is configured to allow network connections to the HTTP server.
```
# setsebool httpd_can_network_connect on
```

Start the Apache web server and memcached:

# service httpd start
# service memcached start
# chkconfig httpd on
# chkconfig memcached on

You can now access the dashboard at http://controller/dashboard .
Login with credentials for any user that you created with the OpenStack Identity Service.