3.9. Connecting to the Administration Portal

Summary
Access the Administration Portal using a web browser.

Procedure 3.7. Connecting to the Administration Portal

  1. Open a supported web browser on your client system.
  2. Navigate to https://your-manager-fqdn/ovirt-engine, replacing your-manager-fqdn with the fully qualified domain name that you provided during installation.
    The first time that you connect, you are prompted to trust the certificate being used to secure communications between your browser and the web server.
  3. The login screen is displayed. Enter your User Name and Password in the fields provided. If you are logging in for the first time, use the user name admin in conjunction with the administrator password that you specified during installation.
  4. Select the directory services domain to authenticate against from the Domain list provided. If you are logging in using the internal admin user name, then select the internal domain.
  5. The Administration Portal is available in multiple languages. The default selection will be chosen based on the locale settings of your web browser. If you would like to view the Administration Portal in a language other than that selected by default, select your preferred language from the list.
  6. Click Login to log in.
Result
You have now successfully logged into the Administration Portal.