4.4. Installing and Configuring Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager Reports

Prerequisites:

Section 4.3, “Installing and Configuring the History Database”

Summary

The rhevm-reports package is optional. If you wish to use the reporting capabilities of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager then you must install and configure the rhevm-reports.

Procedure 4.2. Installing and Configuring Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager Reports

Use yum to install the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager Reports package, rhevm-reports, if you did not already do this when performing the datawarehouse installation. This package must be installed on the system that the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager is installed. You must be logged in as the root user.
```
# yum install rhevm-reports
```
You must run this command as the root user on the system hosting the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager.
```
# rhevm-reports-setup
```
For the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager Reports installation to take effect it is necessary to restart the ovirt-engine service. The rhevm-reports-setup command asks you:
```
In order to proceed the installer must stop the ovirt-engine service
Would you like to stop the ovirt-engine service? (yes|no):
```
Type yes and then press Enter to proceed. The command then performs a number of actions before prompting you to set the password for the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager Reports administrative users (ovirt-admin and superuser). Note that the reports system maintains its own set of credentials which are separate to those used for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager.
```
Please choose a password for the admin users (ovirt-admin and superuser):
```
You will be prompted to enter the password a second time to confirm it.

Result

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager Reports have been installed successfully. Access Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager Reports at http://demo.redhat.com/rhevm-reports, replacing demo.redhat.com with the fully qualified domain name of the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager. If during Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager installation you selected a non-default HTTP port then append :port to the URL, replacing port with the port that you chose.

Use the username ovirt-admin and the password you set during reports installation to log in for the first time. Note that the first time you log into Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager Reports a number of web pages are generated, as a result your initial attempt to login may take some time to complete.

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