Providing access to the self-service portal

The self-service panel is a web-based control panel that allows end users to manage virtual objects, such as virtual machines, volumes, virtual networks, and other, in isolated administrative environments.

Limitations

• The default system administrator cannot log in to the self-service portal.

Prerequisites

• The compute cluster is created, as described in Creating the compute cluster.
• Self-service projects and users are created, as described in Configuring multitenancy.
• The needed compute images are shared between all projects or the permission to upload images is granted to self-service users.
• The compute cluster has at least one physical network.

To be able to access the self-service panel

Open TCP port 8800 on the management node by doing the following:

1. On the Infrastructure > Networks screen, click Edit.
2. Add the Self-service panel traffic type to your public network by selecting the corresponding check box.
3. Click Save to apply changes.

You can now access the self-service panel at http://<admin_panel_IP_address>:8800. Use the domain name and user credentials to log in. If high availability for the management node is enabled, log in into the self-service panel by using the virtual address for the admin panel: http://<admin_panel_virtual_IP_address>:8800. You can also use the link in the Self-service panel URL field on the Settings > Self-service screen.