Before you install the OpenStack dashboard, you must meet the following system requirements:
OpenStack Compute installation. Enable the Identity Service for user and project management.
Note the URLs of the Identity Service and Compute endpoints.
Identity Service user with sudo privileges. Because Apache does not serve content from a root user, users must run the dashboard as an Identity Service user with sudo privileges.
Python 2.6 or 2.7. The Python version must support Django. The Python version should run on any system, including Mac OS X. Installation prerequisites might differ by platform.
Then, install and configure the dashboard on a node that can contact the Identity Service.
Provide users with the following information so that they can access the dashboard through a web browser on their local machine:
The public IP address from which they can access the dashboard
The user name and password with which they can access the dashboard
Your web browser, and that of your users, must support HTML5 and have cookies and JavaScript enabled.
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To use the VNC client with the dashboard, the browser must support HTML5 Canvas and HTML5 WebSockets. For details about browsers that support noVNC, see https://github.com/kanaka/noVNC/blob/master/README.md, and https://github.com/kanaka/noVNC/wiki/Browser-support, respectively. |
