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Ulteo OVD is configured by a web interface called Administration Console or just console. It is installed on and part of the Ulteo Session Manager.
This documentation describes the features available on the console from the main menu, page per page.
As you probably noticed at installation time, the console is available using a web browser by entering the following URL http://ip.or.host/sessionmanager/admin/ where ip.or.host is the name or IP address of the machine where you installed the Session Manager.
You can log in with the admin account. You can also log in with OVD users if you priorly authorized them, as we'll see later in that documentation.
Once logged in, you are redirected to the main page. This page is just a shortcut to some system information. Let's follow the menu.
This category is about Application Servers (ApS) management. It includes the Shared Folders page.
In the first page, you can see the list of Application Server that are plugged to your Session Manager and additional details.
By clicking the FQDN link or the Manage button, you enter a manage page that provides full details for a specific server.
Number of available sessions on this server: This value is not a limit for each Application Server. It's a value used by the load balancer, as we'll see later.
Redirection name of that server: this is used to launch sessions. When you launch a session, you are redirected to an Application Server using the redirection name as redirection. In some cases, the default redirection name (the FQDN you provided during the ApS installation) is not valid. For instance, if you setup a private IP address and want to connect from Internet.
Web port of this server: this is the port where the Application Server is listening for web services accesses from the Session Manager
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Important You shouldn't modify this value unless you are sure of what you are doing
The maintenance/production box is a status information. This status is used to keep some servers online and ready to use on maintenance to be sure that no sessions are going to be started. For instance, it's useful when perfoming a software upgrade.
For Linux application, it's possible to install additional applications directly from the console by entering a package name. It's also possible to ask for a global upgrade. It will perform an applications and Ulteo software upgrade for security and bugfixes.
An Application server is unregistered until an admin registers it by clicking the register button.
At the moment, it is only available for Linux servers. A task is a request to an Application Server to install or remove an application as we talked in the servers page.
This page is listing known tasks and their status.
Shared folders is a feature that allows members of same user groups to work together on a virtual drive.
First, create a new folder
Then click on it
And authorize some users groups to acces on it
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In order to enjoy that feature, you have to choose the "Internal webDAV" filesystem for user's data. In order to do that, click the "Enable Internal WebDAV filesystem" button in the Shared Folders page. Using shared folders on other filesystems is planned for future versions. |
This category is about users and the user groups.
Each user is shown with his login, his display name, his user ID (uid) and all other extra fields from the user database.
You can get more information about a User either by clicking the Manage button or by clicking the user login hyperlink.
On this page, you can modify each user attribute if the user database is writable. At the moment only the MySQL module is writable.
The list of user groups that contain this user and the list of active sessions for this user are already shown.
This page provides a list of user group with their name, their description and their status and corresponding action (Enable or Block). Also can you add and remove user groups.
The Manage page of a specific group lets you change status and description for that group. It's also possible to add or remove users from a specific group and view the list of publications for a specific group.
This page provides the list of applications that are (physically) installed on Application Servers.
Each application is shown with his name, his description and his type (Linux or Windows).
You can have more information about an application either by clicking the Manage button or by clicking on application name hyperlink.
In this part, managing applications means that you can either install/uninstall this application on online servers, or add/remove them from application groups.
This page provides a list of application groups with their name, their description and their status and corresponding action (Enable or Block). You can also add and remove application groups.
The manage page of a specific group lets you change their status and description. It's also possible to add or remove users from a specific group and view the list of publications for a specific group.
Static applications are applications that have not been detected automatically on an Application Server. It's set directly on the console. For instance, it could be a "Web application".
This page shows associations between user groups and application groups. A publication wizard is available to make the process more simple.
The publication wizard consists of 3 main steps:
selection of users
selection of applications
confirmations
If you choose users from the user list instead of an existing user group, the system is going to ask you for a user group name and description. It's the same for selecting applications.
At this page, you can configure your sesion manager.
Be careful when you change those settings: on some actions it can break active sessions.
On this page, it's possible to change settings for the MySQL database used by the OVD.
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Be careful if you change settings on this page: on some actions you can break your system, delete your users groups or other important settings. |
On this page, it's possible to customize the language used for the console. Here it's also possible to change the admin policy for OVD users.
By modifying the policy, you authorize each of your OVD users to perform some admin actions. This default policy can be overriden by customizing the policy for a specific user group.
For instance, if you select user admin panel, you allow each OVD users to log into the administration console.
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We advise to leave all fields of the default policy on "disabled". |
This page is about Application servers settings
The Ulteo OVD can be plugged to LDAP or Active Directory, or use its own local database.
This part is about the default configuration for sessions and what the user can force.
In this page, you can provide and email adress to receive and alert when an event occurs.
This page shows a list of active sessions with the following information:
Session: the session id
Server: the server where the session is running
User: the user who started the session
It's possible to end a session by clicking the Kill button.
You can have more information about a session by clicking on the corresponding session id.
This page shows the log on the Session Manager. The log level depends on the configuration set in the Configuration System settings page.
Ths summary page shows all links between user, user groups, applications, application groups and servers.
This page is very useful in the case you would be lost in publications or if you don't know why you can't start sessions.
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This page can take time to load if you have many users in your database. Use it carrefully. |