1. Navigate to Infrastructure → Providers.
2. Click (Configuration), then click (Add a New Infrastructure Provider).
3. Enter the Name of the provider to add. The Name is how the device is labeled in the console.
4. Select Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager from the Type list.

5. Enter the Host Name or IP address(IPv4 or IPv6) of the provider.

   Important

   The Host Name must use a unique fully qualified domain name.

6. Enter the API Port if your provider uses a non-standard port for access.
7. Select the appropriate Zone for the provider. By default, the zone is set to default.

8. In the Credentials area, under Default, provide the login credentials required for the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager administrative user:

   • Enter the user name, admin@internal, in the Username field.
   • Enter the password in the Password field.
   • Confirm the password in the Confirm Password field.
   • Click Validate to confirm CloudForms Management Engine can connect to the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager.

9. Under C & U Database tab, provide the login credentials for the CloudForms user of the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Data Warehouse database:

   Note

   For the metrics collection to work properly, configure the CloudForms Management Engine to allow for all three Capacity & Utilization server roles which are available under Configure → Configuration → Server → Server Control. For more information on capacity and utilization collection, see Assigning the Capacity and Utilization Server Roles in the Deployment Planning Guide.

   To obtain historical Capacity and Utilization (C & U) data for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager, you must create a CloudForms Management Engine user in the already-configured Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Data Warehouse database. To create the user, see Data Collection for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.3 and 3.4 in the Deployment Planning Guide.

   For information on setting up the Data Warehouse service on the Manager, see the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Installation Guide.

   • Enter the database user name in the Username field.
   • Enter the user password in the Password field.
   • Confirm the user password in the Confirm Password field.
   • Click Validate to confirm CloudForms Management Engine can connect to the database.
10. Click Save.

1. Navigate to Infrastructure → Providers.
2. Click on a provider to display its summary screen.
3. On the summary screen, click Hosts in the Relationships information box to display the hosts on that provider.
4. Select the hosts to authenticate. You can select all hosts using the Check All option.
5. Click (Configuration).
6. Click (Edit this item).

7. In the Credentials area, enter credentials for the following, as required:

   1. Default: This field is mandatory. Users should have privileged access such as, root or administrator.
   2. Remote Login: Credentials for this field are required if SSH login is disabled for the Default account.
   3. Web Services: This tab is used for access to Web Services in Red Hat Enterprise Virtuaization Manager.
   4. IPMI: This tab is used for access to IPMI.
8. Click Validate.

9. If editing multiple hosts:

   1. Select a host from the Select Host to validate against list.
   2. If required, enter credentials for Remote Login, Web Services, and IPMI in their respective tabs; click Validate.
   3. Select another host to validate each of these credentials against.
10. Click Add.

1. Navigate to Infrastructure → Providers.
2. Click (Configuration), then click (Add a New Infrastructure Provider).
3. Enter the Name of the provider to add. The Name is how the device is labeled in the console.
4. Select OpenStack Platform Director from the Type list.

5. Enter the Host Name or IP address(IPv4 or IPv6) of the provider.

   Important

   The Host Name must use a unique fully qualified domain name.

6. Select the API Version of your Keystone service from the list. The default is Keystone v2.

   Important

   If the Keystone service is configured to use SSL, you must enter the SSL port for Keystone.

7. Select the appropriate Zone for the provider. By default, the zone is set to default.

8. In the Credentials area, under Default, provide the login credentials required for the OpenStack Infrastructure administrative user:

   • Enter the user name in the Username field.
   • Enter the password in the Password field.
   • Confirm the user password in the Confirm Password field.
   • Click Validate to confirm that the CloudForms Management Engine can connect to the OpenStack Infrastructure instance using the user name and password.

9. Under AMQP, provide the login credentials required for the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol messaging service:

   • Enter the administrative user name in the Username field.
   • Enter the user password in the Password field.
   • Confirm the user password in the Confirm Password field.
   • Click Validate to confirm CFME can connect to the messaging service.

10. Under RSA key pair, provide the user name and private key required to connect via SSH to all hosts in the provider:

    • Enter the administrative user name in the Username field.
    • Enter the private key from the machine on which OpenStack was deployed in the Private Key field.
11. Click Add.

1. Navigate to Infrastructure → Providers.
2. Click (Configuration), then click (Add a New Infrastructure Provider).
3. Enter the Name of the provider to add. The Name is how the device is labeled in the console.
4. Select VMware vCenter from the Type list.

5. Enter the Host Name or IP address(IPv4 or IPv6) of the provider.

   Important

   The Host Name must use a unique fully qualified domain name.

6. Select the appropriate Zone for the provider. By default, the zone is set to default.

7. In the Credentials area, under Default, provide the login credentials required for the VMware vCenter administrative user:

   • Enter the user name in the Username field.
   • Enter the password in the Password field.
   • Confirm the password in the Confirm Password field.
   • Click Validate to confirm CloudForms Management Engine can connect to the VMware vCenter.
8. Click Add.

1. Navigate to Infrastructure → Providers.
2. Click on a provider to display its summary screen.
3. On the summary screen, click Hosts in the Relationships information box to display the hosts on that provider.
4. Select the hosts to authenticate. You can select all hosts using the Check All option.
5. Click (Configuration)
6. Click (Edit Selected items).

7. In the Credentials area, under Default, provide the VMware ESXi login credentials:

   • Enter the user name in the Username field.
   • Enter the password in the Password field.
   • Confirm the password in the Confirm Password field.
   • Click Validate to confirm CFME can connect to the VMware vCenter host.
8. If editing multiple hosts, select a host from the Select Host to validate against list; provide the VMware ESXi login credentials and click Validate.
9. Click Save.

1. Log in to the Microsoft SCVMM server.

2. Enable WinRM for configuration.

   winrm quickconfig

3. Set the following options:

   winrm set winrm/config/client/auth @{Basic="true"}
   winrm set winrm/config/service/auth @{Basic="true"}
   winrm set winrm/config/service @{AllowUnencrypted="true"}

4. For Windows 2012 R2 with PowerShell 4.0, use the following syntax to set these options:

   winrm set winrm/config/client/auth '@{Basic="true"}'
   winrm set winrm/config/service/auth '@{Basic="true"}'
   winrm set winrm/config/service '@{AllowUnencrypted="true"}'

5. Enable remote script execution on the SCVMM server using the Set-ExecutionPolicy cmdlet.

   Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

   For more information on SCVMM remote script execution policies, see Using the Set-ExecutionPolicy Cmdlet.

1. Navigate to Infrastructure → Providers.
2. Click (Configuration), then click (Add a New Infrastructure Provider).
3. Enter the Name of the provider to add. The Name is how the device is labeled in the console.
4. Select Microsoft System Center VMM from the Type list.

5. Enter the Host Name or IP address(IPv4 or IPv6) of the provider.

   Important

   The Host Name must use a unique fully qualified domain name.

6. Select Kerberos or Basic (SSL) from the Security Protocol list.

   1. For Kerberos:

      1. Enter the user name and realm in the Username field.
      2. Enter the password in the Password field.
      3. Enter the password again in the Confirm Password field.

   2. For Basic (SSL):

      1. Enter the user name in the Username field.
      2. Enter the pasword in the Password field.
      3. Enter the password again in the Confirm Password field.
7. Click Validate to confirm that Red Hat CloudForms can connect to the Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager.
8. Click Add.

1. Edit /etc/heat/heat.conf, and specify the following options:

   notification_driver=glance.openstack.common.notifier.rpc_notifier
   notification_topics=notifications

2. Edit /etc/nova/nova.conf, and specify the following options:

   notification_driver=messaging
   notification_topics=notifications

3. Restart the Compute service and Orchestration services:

   # systemctl restart openstack-heat-api.service \
     openstack-heat-api-cfn.service \
     openstack-heat-engine.service \
     openstack-heat-api-cloudwatch.service
   # systemctl restart openstack-nova-compute.service

1. On the director node, edit undercloud.conf, and set store_events to true.

2. Create an environment file called ceilometer.yaml, and add the following contents:

   parameter_defaults:
     CeilometerStoreEvents: true

3. Add the environment file to the overcloud deploy command:

   # openstack overcloud deploy --templates -e ~/ceilometer.yaml

Working with the Containers Overview Page

1. Navigate to Containers → Overview.
2. Click the desired containers entity, or provider, if applicable, for viewing the summary with further information.

Viewing a Containers Provider Summary

1. Navigate to Containers → Providers.
2. Click the desired containers provider for viewing the provider summary.

Viewing a Container Nodes Summary

1. Navigate to Containers → Providers.
2. Click the desired containers provider for viewing the provider summary.
3. In the Relationships box on the right-hand side of the summary page, click Nodes.
4. Click the desired container node for viewing.
5. Alternatively, you can access the desired container node from Containers → Container Nodes.

Viewing a Containers Summary

1. Navigate to Containers → Providers.
2. Click the desired containers provider for viewing the provider summary.
3. In the Relationships box on the right-hand side of the summary page, click Containers.
4. Click the desired container for viewing.
5. Alternatively, you can access the desired container from Containers → Containers.

Viewing a Container Images Summary

1. Navigate to Containers → Providers.
2. Click the desired containers provider for viewing the provider summary.
3. In the Relationships box on the right-hand side of the summary page, click Images.
4. Click the desired image for viewing.
5. Alternatively, you can access the desired image from Containers → Container Images.

Viewing an Image Registries Summary

1. Navigate to Containers → Providers.
2. Click the desired containers provider for viewing the provider summary.
3. In the Relationships box on the right-hand side of the summary page, click Image Registries.
4. Click the desired image registry for viewing.
5. Alternatively, you can access the desired image registry from Containers → Image Registries.

Viewing a Pods Summary

1. Navigate to Containers → Providers.
2. Click the desired containers provider for viewing the provider summary.
3. In the Relationships box on the right-hand side of the summary page, click Pods.
4. Click the desired pod for viewing.
5. Alternatively, you can access the desired pod from Containers → Pods.

Viewing a Replicators Summary

1. Navigate to Containers → Providers.
2. Click the desired containers provider for viewing the provider summary.
3. In the Relationships box on the right-hand side of the summary page, click Replicators.
4. Click the desired replicator for viewing.
5. Alternatively, you can access the desired replicator from Containers → Replicators.

Viewing a Container Services Summary

1. Navigate to Containers → Providers.
2. Click the desired containers provider for viewing the provider summary.
3. In the Relationships box on the right-hand side of the summary page, click Services.
4. Click the desired service for viewing.
5. Alternatively, you can access the desired service from Containers → Container Services.

Viewing the Topology Widget

1. Navigate to Containers → Providers.
2. Click the desired containers provider for viewing the provider summary.
3. On the provider summary page, click Topology in the Overview box on the right-hand side of the page.

Running a SmartState Analysis

1. Navigate to Containers → Container Images.
2. Check the container image to analyze. You can check multiple images.

3. Click (Configuration), and then (Perform SmartState Analysis).

   The container image is scanned. The process will copy over any required files for the image. After reloading the image page, all new or updated packages are listed.

   To monitor the status of container image SmartState Analysis tasks, navigate to Configure → Tasks. The status of each task is displayed including time started, time ended, what part of the task is currently running, and any errors encountered.