openstack-manuals/doc/install-guide/section_dashboard-system-reqs.xml
Tom Fifield 7237f27df3 Fix install instructions for ubuntu, part 2
This patch continues from the previous patch, fixing
installation instructions for ubuntu 12.04 server

1) changes to image service install

2) changes to dashboard install

Change-Id: Ic573edfe0c938049671d5fac9226af7dcf300b33
2013-10-11 13:51:11 +11:00

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<section xml:id="dashboard-system-requirements"
xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0">
<title>System requirements</title>
<para>Before you install the OpenStack dashboard, you must meet
the following system requirements:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>OpenStack Compute installation. Enable the Identity
Service for user and project management.</para>
<para>Note the URLs of the Identity Service and Compute
endpoints.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Identity Service user with sudo privileges. Because
Apache does not serve content from a root user, users
must run the dashboard as an Identity Service user
with sudo privileges.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Python 2.6 or 2.7. The Python version must support
Django. The Python version should run on any
system, including Mac OS X. Installation prerequisites
might differ by platform.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>Then, install and configure the dashboard on a node that
can contact the Identity Service.</para>
<para>Provide users with the following information so that they
can access the dashboard through a web browser on their local
machine:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>The public IP address from which they can access the
dashboard</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The user name and password with which they can
access the dashboard</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>Your web browser, and that of your users,
must support HTML5 and have cookies and
JavaScript enabled.</para>
<note>
<para>To use the VNC client with the dashboard, the browser
must support HTML5 Canvas and HTML5 WebSockets.</para>
<para>For details about browsers that support noVNC, see <link
xlink:href="https://github.com/kanaka/noVNC/blob/master/README.md"
>https://github.com/kanaka/noVNC/blob/master/README.md</link>,
and <link
xlink:href="https://github.com/kanaka/noVNC/wiki/Browser-support"
>https://github.com/kanaka/noVNC/wiki/Browser-support</link>,
respectively.</para>
</note>
</section>