Administration

Contents

• Administration
  • Administrative Accounts
    • Network Access
    • Console Access
    • Admin UI Access
  • System Configuration

Administrative Accounts

Network Access

Note

You must be able to access the SSH and HTTPS network interfaces of the Management Node in order to be able to configure your PixStor Cloud.

Consult your cloud provider’s documentation for how to configure appropriate network access for your environment, which may include:

• Access via the management node’s Public IP (with appropriate Firewall Rules)
• Access via the management node’s Internal/Private IP via a Site to Site VPN
• Access via the management node’s Internal/Private IP via a Bastion Host

Console Access

By default, shell login accounts are created by the cloud provider, with access granted via your project SSH keys.

Note

Consult your cloud provider’s documentation for how to create admin user accounts for logging into the PixCloud system.

Using a terminal client, ssh to the management node IP address:

ssh username@ip.address

Admin UI Access

The admin user interface user is pixadmin. You must set a password for this user before you can log in to the admin interface. To do this, use the pixcloud-passwd tool on the PixStor Cloud Management Node:

sudo pixcloud-passwd pixadmin

Once you have set the password for this user, you can log into the web admin interface by connecting to https://IP.ADDRESS/ (replace IP.ADDRESS with the management node IP address).

Note

It may take several minutes for the web server to finish configuring before being available.

You will be warned that the site connection is not secure, because there is no valid SSL certificate. Proceed regardless. See the Admin UI documentation for details on installing your own SSL certificates.

The admin interface has panes for:

• Monitoring/metrics
• System Configuration
• Documentation
• Fileset configuration
• NAS Share configuration

More information on using the admin interface can be found in the user guide, accessed via the Docs tab in the web interface.

System Configuration

To manage the system configuration, click on the Config tab in the web interface. Log in to the configuration application with the pixadmin user account and password (as per Admin UI Access).