openstack-manuals/doc/common/section_dashboard-system-reqs.xml
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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><literal>git</literal>. Run the following command to
install <literal>git</literal>:</para>
<screen os="ubuntu" language="bash"><prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>sudo apt-get install git-core</userinput></screen>
<screen os="centos;rhel;fedora" language="bash"><prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>sudo yum install git</userinput></screen>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Python 2.6 or 2.7. The Python version must support
Django. These instructions have been tested with
Ubuntu 10.10. The Python version should run on any
system, including Mac OS X. Installation prerequisites
might differ by platform.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>Then, <link xlink:href="installing-openstack-dashboard"
>install and configure the dashboard</link> 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>Their web browser 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>