«Projects» tab¶

Adding project¶

In the general list on the control panel using the «Create project» button, open the wizard window for creating project. Fill in project parameters:

Project creation window¶

Project information:

• Name is optional field, if the value is empty, the name is generated automatically;
• Description is optional field;
• Flag «Active» is the state of the project after creation;
• Integration with public clouds enabled is enabling or disabling integration of the project with the public cloud. Integration with public clouds can be configured only when creating project, it cannot be edited later.

Project creation window¶

Project members:

• All users is a list of all available users;
• Project members is a list of project members.

Project creation window¶

Project groups:

• All groups is a list of all available groups;
• Project groups is a list of creating project groups.

Project creation window¶

On the tab, you need select the type of public cloud with which you want to integrate the project: AWS or Yandex. And also it is needed to specify parameters for integrating the project with public clouds:

Project creation window¶

For AWS:

• Access key is public cloud access key;
• Secret key is secret key;
• Region is the region of the public cloud;
• Availability Zone is public cloud availability zone.

Project creation window¶

For Yandex:

• Authorized key ID is the authorized key identifier in Yandex.Cloud;
• Service account ID is identifier of the service account in Yandex.Cloud;
• Private key is private key (enter manually or upload private key file);
• Folder ID is the catalog ID in Yandex.Cloud;
• Availability zone is public cloud availability zone.

Follow directions on pages of the wizard to select the options you want. We complete creating procedure with the “Create project” button. After that, correctly created project will be displayed in the general list. Otherwise, the system will return you to the wizard window indicating reasons for the impossibility of its creation.

Scheduling actions¶

1. Select required project and call action:

   

   Scheduled action calendar¶

   In the wizard window that opens, select the date. Highlighted days indicate the presence of planned actions on this object for the date, and blue marks indicate their number.

2. To go to the next step in the field of the selected date, click on an empty area or number. In the first case, you will be redirected to the task creation window. When you click on the number, you will be immediately prompted to select the duration:

   

   Scheduled action calendar¶

3. Specify the rest of the parameters of the scheduled action, which contain the internal tabs of the master window:

   

   Task creation window¶

   Let’s analyze their content in more detail:

   Select an action:

   • Task name is the name of the scheduled action; if empty, it will be generated automatically;

   • Action is list of available actions on the project:

     • Launch base instance (only for typical projects);
     • Launch instance (only for typical projects);
     • Launch TRS instance (only for TRS projects);
     • Run openstack shell command;
     • Run curl request;
     • Allocate TRS instances.

     More information about available actions can be found in the corresponding section of documentation.

   User credentials:

   • Username is the login of the user planning the action;
   • Password is password of the user planning the action;
   • Project is working project of user planning the action.

   Details:

   • Type is the type of task. Following types are distinguished:
     • Single task;
     • Repeating task.
   • Repeat, selection of values of the task execution interval. Following options are available:
     • Days;
     • Hours;
     • Minutes;
     • Working days (from Monday to Friday);
     • Days of the week;
     • Year.
   • Repeat with interval, selection of task execution interval;
   • Start date is the start date of the task in the format dd.mm.yyyy;
   • Start time is the start time of the task in the format hh.mm;
   • Time zone is the time zone according to which the task execution time is indicated;
   • End is the conditions for terminating the task. Following conditions are distinguished:
     • Never, when choosing a flag, the task becomes unlimited;
     • Max number of repetitions is limiting the number of task executions;
     • Date is the deadline for the task execution, set in the format dd.mm.yyyy.

   Instance launch details:

   • Instance name;
   • Availability zone;
   • Instance count;
   • Source;
   • Flavor;
   • Networks.

   Base instance launch details:

   • Instance name;
   • Instance count;
   • Image name;
   • Network;
   • CPU;
   • RAM;
   • HDD.

   TRS instance launch details:

   • Instance name;
   • Instance count.

   Complete the procedure with confirmation button.

Created task is displayed in the “Scheduled Tasks” tab.

AppLevel setup¶

Configuring project access to the AppLevel module, which makes it possible to manage gold images for OpenStack projects. Select the required project and call the “Configure AppLevel” action:

In the window that opens, specify:

• AppLevel address is the address of AppLevel golden image management module.
• Checkbox “Use authorization”, when selecting the checkbox, authorization data, such as username and password, are used for connection.
• Username is AppLevel username. The field becomes active when the “Use authorization” checkbox is selected.
• Password is AppLevel password. The field becomes active when the “Use authorization” checkbox is selected.

Complete the procedure with «Set» button.

Monitoring setup¶

Function allows you to integrate the project with monitoring system Zabbix. Action is available in the general list of all projects. Select the required project within which the monitoring system will be integrated. After calling the action, you need to set the login and password of the new user in Zabbix:

Monitoring settings window¶

Confirm the entered credentials and click on the “Configure” button. Username must be unique within the Zabbix monitoring system. Wait for the message that the user has been successfully added. In case of error, you will be shown a message indicating the reason for the unsuccessful addition. Credentials of the Zabbix user created to integrate the project will be needed to log in to the monitoring system Zabbix and view monitoring data.

After adding new user for instances of the project, monitoring templates become available Zabbix. You can customize templates on the «Integration» - «Monitoring» tab using the «Manage templates» function.

Project members management¶

Function is available in the list of actions of the required project. It allows to change project members list.

Project member management window¶

In the window that opens, select required parameters. Complete the procedure with «Save» button.

Aggregates management¶

Function is available only in the general list of all projects. Select the required project and call the action «Manage Host Aggregates»:

Host Aggregates management window¶

Install required aggregators from the list of available ones and complete the procedure with «Submit» button.

Modifying project quotas¶

Function is available in the list of actions of the required project. It allows to change project quotas.

Project quotas change window¶

Project quotas editing form has three tabs:

• Compute;
• Volume;
• Network.

In the window that opens, change required parameters. Complete the procedure with «Save» button.

Editing project¶

Function is available only in the general list of all projects. After calling action in the window that opens, change required parameters:

Window for changing project parameters¶

• Name, any name is available;
• Description is optional field;
• Flag «Enabled» is selection of the project state. Disabling the current project is not possible;
• Project members, project members management;
• Project groups, project groups management.

Complete the procedure with confirmation button.

Group editing project¶

Function is available on the top panel in the general list of all projects. Select required ones and call the action «Edit projects». In the window that opens, set parameters for the selected projects:

Window for changing parameters of projects groups¶

• Description is optional field;
• Flag «Enabled» is selection of the project state. Disabling the current project is not possible;
• Project members, adding of project members ;
• Project groups, adding project groups.

Complete the procedure with confirmation button.

Changing project groups¶

Function is available only in the general list of all projects. After calling action in the window that opens, change required parameters:

Project group management window¶

Complete the procedure with confirmation button.

All available actions not listed above are performed in their master windows with prompts or have ease of management that does not need description.