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

Admin panel

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

On the Infrastructure > Networks screen, click Edit.
Add the Self-service panel traffic type to your public network by selecting the corresponding check box.
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 Panel URLs field on the Settings > System settings > Self-service portal screen.

Command-line interface

Open TCP port 8800 on the management node by adding the Self-service panel traffic type to your public network. For example, run:

# vinfra cluster network set Public --add-traffic-types "Self-service panel"