Hi,

I am wondering where I can define in CPBM which network are offered by default for product bundles?
In my case I had a shared network created in CloudStack which was used as default for new instances. After I have removed this shared network in CloudStack, CPBM still wants to create instances on it.

How can I set this back and specify the networks to be used for products / bundles?

Thanks for your help!

Regards,

Christian

Is there support for CS Projects in CPBM 1.4.+ or does CPBM offers a similar ability for collaboration environment that allows multiple users to access and manage the same instances, storage, snapshots and networks?

Hi,

I do want to publish a bundle.
When trying this on a bundle I created it says I have to define "current charges" by editing bundle pricing.
However the only option I see on a bundle perspective is to set the charge frequency (which is annual in this case).
The single products of the bundle so far don't have any pricing. E.g. there's a Template group with one Windows VM included which shows on the "product pricing" tab "Effective Date 07/31/2012". No option to change anything.

What am I missing here?
I checked documentation but haven't found a valid answer.

My intent is simple: Just want to create a catalog consisting of 1 VM which a user can select when creating a new instance.

Thanks & Regards,

Christian

I installed CPBM 1.4 and can successful login.

Used following mail settings in cloud.properties file:
vmops.mail.protocol=smtp
vmops.mail.host=smtp.gmail.com
vmops.mail.port=465
vmops.mail.username=cpbm2012@gmail.com
vmops.mail.password=******

Added an e-mail address under service account --> root user --> e-mail addresses --> additional alert email

When trying to verify I never get an e-mail in the mentioned e-mail account?

Any idea how to troubleshoot?

Regards,

Christian

Hi,
on CPBM1.4 (CS1.3) I am unable to access a product catalog from a customer dashboard. I always get the same error: "We're sorry, but the page you have requested is not available". Same thing happens when I click on "Manage my Resources".
I am not 100% sure but I think it might have to do with changing the default currency from USD to EUR as described on eDocs "http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/cloudportalbusiness-14/ccpb-activatenewcurrency.html".
Creating and publishing products, bundles and assigning them to channels worked just fine. Can you please give me a help on this?

Thanks,
Hugo

How does CP (or CS) pushes the SSH key to linux VMs?

I installed CentOS 6.2 (Used CentOS 6.2 Minimal ISO) and run 'yum update', after that the boot screen showed CentOS 6.3.

When I attempted to install CPBM 1.4.1 I got the Error at the end saying:

error: Failed dependencies:
tomcat-native is needed by cloud-portal-1.4.1-1.x86_64

when I try to manually install tomcat6, it says it is installed:
*********
# yum install tomcat6
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, priorities
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: less.cogeco.net
* extras: less.cogeco.net
* jpackage: ftp.heanet.ie
* updates: mirror.net.cen.ct.gov
208 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
Setting up Install Process
Package tomcat6-6.0.33-2.jpp6.noarch already installed and latest version
Nothing to do
********
When I try to install CPBM again using the ./install.sh it fails again:
*********

# ./install.sh
Proceed to review the Citrix End User License Agreement, press enter key to continue...

NOTE: Citrix End User License Agreement is also available under "license" directory

I read & agree with the above license agreement (y/N)?y

Welcome to the Citrix CloudPortal Installer. What would you like to do?

D) Install the database server
I) Install CloudPortal
G) Configure CloudPortal
C) Integrate with CloudStack
Q) Quit

> i
Would you like to install CAS with CloudPortal (y/N)?n
Installing CloudPortal without CAS
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, priorities
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: less.cogeco.net
* extras: less.cogeco.net
* jpackage: ftp.heanet.ie
* updates: mirror.symnds.com
208 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
Setting up Install Process
Package yum-plugin-priorities-1.1.30-14.el6.noarch already installed and latest version
Nothing to do
./install.sh: line 57: wget: command not found
Unable to download epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm. Please download and install it manually and re-run install.sh.
Retrieving http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/jpackage/6.0/generic/free/RPMS/jpackage-release-6-3.jpp6.noarch.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
package jpackage-release-6-3.jpp6.noarch is already installed
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, priorities
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirror.cogentco.com
* extras: mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
* jpackage: mirror.ibcp.fr
* updates: mirror.symnds.com
208 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
Setting up Install Process
Package tomcat6-6.0.33-2.jpp6.noarch already installed and latest version
No package tomcat-native available.
Nothing to do

Checking if Iptables enabled

Iptables is enabled
Deleting the rule for accepting connection on 8080
This will not have any effect if this rule does not exist

Adding the rule to accept connection on 8080

Deleting the rule for accepting connection on 20410
This will not have any effect if this rule does not exist

Adding the rule to accept connection on 8080

iptables: Saving firewall rules to /etc/sysconfig/iptables:[ OK ]
iptables: Flushing firewall rules: [ OK ]
iptables: Setting chains to policy ACCEPT: filter [ OK ]
iptables: Unloading modules: [ OK ]
iptables: Applying firewall rules: [ OK ]
Rule added
error: Failed dependencies:
tomcat-native is needed by cloud-portal-1.4.1-1.x86_64
*

Any suggestions?

I noticed that the CPBM 1.4 Install Guide, page 8 says:

"CloudPortal Business Manager and CloudStack must reside on separate nodes. If you have already installed CloudStack, install CloudPortal Business Manager on a different node. The installation will fail if you install them on the same node."

However, further down on pg. 13 there is a note referring to "Setting Port for Single-Node Installation":

"If you have installed CloudPortal Business Manager on the same machine as CloudStack, you need
to modify the default port setting in Tomcat so that they do not both try to use the same default port."....

Can you advise on that? Thanks!

HI Everyone,

I have been working on Integrating the New Cloud Portal Business Manager 1.4 with my CloudPlatform 3.0.3 (formerly CloudStack) in my test lab for a POC. I am using XenServer 6.0.2 as my Hypervisor. I have 2 dedicated machines that I have installed CPBM and CS on respectively all running CentOS 6.2 X64.

Individually the install was quite simple and I have both machines up and running. The CS machine is happily integrated into XenServer and I have my Zones, Pods and clusters all set to go. I then ran the CPBM install.sh script to execute the "Integrate Into CloudStack" script and I manually added an IPTABLES rule for the API port 8096.

I can CURL to the 8096 port with no issues and even browse via chrome from my laptop in my test lab. So far everything seems to be in order. The issues come when I try and actually make the two communicate with each other.

On my CPBM server I edited the cloud.properties file section:

################################################################################
# CloudStack Usage Database configuration
################################################################################
usage.jdbc.url=jdbc:mysql://172.17.7.206/cloud_usage?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=utf8
usage.jdbc.username=[username]
usage.jdbc.password=[username]
usage.jdbc.database.schemaname=cloud_usage

# Cloud Stack core Database Configuration
cloud.jdbc.url=jdbc:mysql://172.17.7.206/cloud?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=utf8
cloud.jdbc.username=[username]
cloud.jdbc.password=[password]
cloud.jdbc.database.schemaname=cloud

################################################################################
# CloudStack Server information
################################################################################
vmops.mgmt.server.publicHost=172.17.7.206
vmops.mgmt.server.publicPort=8080
vmops.mgmt.server.publicProtocol=http

# Semicolon separated list of host:port pairs of management server instances
vmops.mgmt.server.serverList=172.17.7.206:8096
vmops.mgmt.server.nonAdminServerList=172.17.7.206:8080

I have also verified that the admin user in the cloud_portal.cloud_users has the api_key and secret_key from the CS system with the following API call:

http://172.17.7.206:8096/client/api?command=listConfigurations&name=security.singlesignon.key

and

http://172.17.7.206:8096/client/api?command=listUsers&username=admin

I then made sure that the security.singlesignon.key was populated from the 1st query above with the API key from CS. I had to do all this manually as it never transferred automatically. I then reboot both servers and lowered the firewalls through a "service iptables stop" just to be sure that there is nothing blocking on either side.

When I go into my CPBM I finally saw my stats populated after about 20 minutes. When I click the "Launch Console" button it opens another window with the following URL:

http://172.17.7.206:8080/client/?username=admin&domainid=1&timestamp=1341254450556&signature=%2FsxMl%2F4mE%2FQJAQWtVM9p7nnvL7c%3D&tz=5.50&currencyFormat=%23%23%23%2C%23%23%23.%23%23%3B%28%23%23%23%2C%23%23%23.%23%23%29&ticketCapabilities=C&showDelinquent=false&currencyPrecision=none&sharedCloudAccount=false&minFractionDigits=2

It fails to connect with a message of:

"Login to CloudSTack failed"

It goes on to say:

"The webpage your viewing is trying to close the tab"

If I hit no to not close the tab, I am starring at the CloudStack login page with the above URL. I can however login without issue.

Since I am so close to getting everything to work, I am going to assume I have something screwy in the cloudstack section of the cloud.properties config file on my CPBM server. Obviously my DB is working correctly since I can see stats. But the launch cloud console I though depended on the API key from the singleton settings in the Global Settings. I know they are correct as I have compared them dozens of times.

Any help I can get to get the other half of this stack working would be awesome. I will write a rant about ProdDocs later :-)

Edited by: Timothy Schilbach on Jul 3, 2012 3:35 PM

Hey

Is this the new interface for the cloudplatform ui

Tanks Kim

Hi,

What is the preffered CentOS version for CP 1.3.4 or 1.3.5?
My install in CentOS 6.2 doesn't work and the catalina.out log files complains about java errors...could this be centos related...

Is there a commandline to undo the CP integration on CS?

A quick setup guide around CP would be nice :-)

Any tips around single-node installation? (OS, CS & CP versions)

Thanks,
Ralf

Hi,

I think I messed up my install and I was wondering if there are any procedures to remove CPBM (CAS if installed) and clean my Linux OS and start over?!

Few quick questions:
1) Does CS must be fully installed and operational before integrating it with CPBM? eg do I have to create and enable a zone before adding CPBM or can I do it after the ingratiation?
2) For CPBM usage - do I have to install the CS Usage Server?

Hi,

I am building a demo lab with CloudStack 3.0.2 and CloudPortal 1.3.4 on the same CentOS 6.2 server.

So far I managed to install all componenents ,however the http://servername:8080/portal URL doesn't show anything.

So far I did the following:
1. ./install.sh
2. Choose option C (intergrate)
3. yum install httpd mod_ssl
4. Created the file /etc/httpd/conf.d/cloud.conf, and add the lines:
ProxyPass /portal ajp://localhost:20410/portal
ProxyPass /client ajp://localhost:20400/client
5. rpm -ihv http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
6 repeated step 1 & 2

At this stage:
http://servername:8080/client/?direct=true shows the CloudStack portal page
http://servername:8080/portal doesn't show anything...

Any tips appreciated..

Cheers,
Ralf

Edited by: Ralf Donkers on 22/05/2012 1:01 AM

Edited by: Ralf Donkers on 22/05/2012 1:01 AM

On CloudPortal, may I know if I can use the "Restricted" state account for the following requirements? And please let me if there any concerns about the use of Restricted state.

- After running virtual machines, end-user would not like to have permissions on CloudPortal to manage VMs (such as start, stop, add, delete and so) and related resources (such as Volume, IP, network, snapshot).
- End-user would like to access VMs via SSH and RDP.
- All VMs need to keep on running after switching the account to Restricted state.
- Usage and billing need to be correctly recorded after switching the account to Restricted state.
- Only Service Provider can switch the account state back to Active when requested by End-user.

How does CPBM (1.3.3 and later) support the Basic Networking model in Cloudstack?
Do the launch vm screens follow the same sequence , i.e the security groups option is provided during launch?

An instance of CPBM 1.3.4 against CS 2.2.14, with Basic Networking fails in launch vm. The eror seems to point to a piece of code in the virtualmachinecreate.js

Does anyone know when cloudportal will be supporting cloudstack (cloudplatform) 3.0?

I'm testing CP 1.3.4 with CS 3.0.1 and saw that the FW option is not displayed under an account network options.

It is however visible thought CS, is this intentional ? configurable ?

thx,

-Oded

Folks

Do you know if we have any known issues when CS is running on CentOS 6.2 with MySQL 5.1 and CP is running CentOS 5.7 with MySQL 5.0 ?

The CP machine is unable to connect to CS DB, all ports and FW rules are wide open.

when I test it from CP to CS I get this error:

root@cp134 CloudPortal-1.3.4-1-centos# mysql cloud@192.168.30.11 -p
Enter password:
ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)
root@cp134 CloudPortal-1.3.4-1-centos#

locally on CS it works OK

Edited by: Oded Nahum on May 9, 2012 2:15 PM

Hello

1. How many tenants CloudPortal's server can manage? Are there any sizing information?
2. Can customer enable HA for CloudPortal's server?
3. Can administrator charge to create ticket in CloudPortal?
4. Is CloudPortal user data same as CloudStack user data? In other words, I think CloudPortal user data is stored in CloudPortal's mysql, not CloudStack's mysql and is it managed individually?
6. I know CloudPortal ticket service is tracked in web, is it notified by email as well?

Thanks
Kimi

I need help understanding the procedure for customizing the CPBM UI. Specifically, I am interested in the HTML title and tagl line?

On CPBM 1.3.x, is it possible to have an SSO integration with a 3rd party system – say, for example, a monitoring service? If so, how can this be achieved?

It seems the control panel has its own set of complexity requirements that do not adhere to the current settings in AD. What are the complexity requirements?

Would like to know:
a) Does CP supports Private Zone?
b) If yes, what is the behaviour when there are private zones?
c) Who can view these private zone?

A prospect had few questions on CPBM:
- When intgrating CPBM to LDAP via CAS, is there a way for the user to see any notifications for the LDAP/AD with regards to password change warning (for example: you password will expire in X days')?
- Is it possible to create multiple CP root accounts using a different usernames and passwords? if yes, how is this done in CPBM UI?
- It is possible to enforce password complexity and length for local CPBM accounts?

Hi,

I tried to install CPBM 1.3.4 on Centos 6.2 ...
got the tomcat-native error.

error: Failed dependencies:
tomcat-native is needed by cloud-portal-1.3.4-1.x86_64

When I do a rpm-qa|grep tomcat , I see the following
on the lab (6.2) system

rpm -qa|grep tomcat
tomcat6-el-1.0-api-6.0.33-2.jpp6.noarch
tomcat6-6.0.33-2.jpp6.noarch
tomcat6-servlet-2.5-api-6.0.33-2.jpp6.noarch
apache-commons-dbcp-tomcat5-1.3.0-0.r830852.4.jpp6.noarch
apache-commons-pool-tomcat5-1.5.3-6.jpp6.noarch
apache-commons-collections-tomcat5-3.2.1-6.jpp6.noarch
tomcat6-lib-6.0.33-2.jpp6.noarch
tomcat6-jsp-2.1-api-6.0.33-2.jpp6.noarch

I tried this command,
yum install tomcat6 tomcat-native ..and got this

yum install tomcat6 tomcat-native
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirror.nus.edu.sg
* extras: mirror.nus.edu.sg
* updates: mirror.nus.edu.sg
219 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
Setting up Install Process
Package tomcat6-6.0.33-2.jpp6.noarch already installed and latest version
No package tomcat-native available.
Nothing to do

I noticed the edocs mentioned LB configuration for CPBM but I could not find the steps needed top install CPBM in a cluster formation.

Where can I find the steps for setting up CPBM in a cluster mode (e.g. multi-node install).

Thanks!