Getting Started With Manual Installation

Once you have installed ZStack on a Linux machine following instructions in Manual Installation, you are ready to configure and start the management node using zstack-ctl which is ZStack control tool installed on the machine that ZStack management node is installed.

zstack.properties

All configurations about ZStack management node such as database URL, database password, RabbitMQ server IP and so on are stored in zstack.properties that is a standard Java properties file. You can retrieve its path by:

zstack-ctl status

You can manually edit this file just as a normal text file, however, most zstack-ctl commands will update corresponding entries automatically, which you will see soon in following sections.

1. Deploy database

First of all, you need to deploy a fresh ZStack database:

zstack-ctl deploydb --host=ip_of_mysql_machine --root-password=root_password_of_mysql --zstack-password=password_for_mysql_user_zstack

Example: zstack-ctl deploydb --host=192.168.0.212 --root-password=abcd --zstack-password=1234

if the MySQL is installed by zstack-ctl install_db the default root password is empty, you can omit --root-password then:

zstack-ctl deploydb --host=ip_of_mysql_machine --zstack-password=password_for_mysql_user_zstack

Example: zstack-ctl deploydb --host=192.168.0.212 --zstack-password=1234

or you want to use empty password for user zstack in a POC environment, you can omit --zstack-password then:

zstack-ctl deploydb --host=ip_of_mysql_machine 

Example: zstack-ctl deploydb --host=192.168.0.212

2. Configure RabbitMQ

If you installed RabbitMQ message broker using command zstack-ctl install_rabbitmq, you don't have to do any configuration because the command has automatically updated entry CloudBus.serverIp.0 with the IP of RabbitMQ machine. If you installed RabbitMQ manually, please edit zstack.properties updating CloudBus.serverIp.0 to the IP of RabbitMQ machine.

3. Start management node

You can start the management node by:

zstack-ctl start_node

or use the service file in init.d/:

/etc/init.d/zstack-server start

4. Start web UI

If the UI is installed in localhost, you can start the web UI by:

zstack-ctl start_ui 

If the UI is installed on different host, you can start the web UI by:

zstack-ctl start_ui --host=ip_of_ui_host

the web UI will listen on port 5000, you can visit it with URL http://ip_of_ui_machine:5000.

Useful zstack-ctl commands

You can stop a management node by:

zstack-ctl stop_node

The log file of ZStack management node locates at /var/log/zstack/management-server.log, you can view it by:

zstack-ctl taillog

which essentially runs tail -f /var/log/zstack/management-server.log.

You can add or update a property in zstack.properties by:

zstack-ctl configure property_name=property_value

Example: zstack-ctl configure CloudBus.serverIp.0=192.168.0.225

Use Command Line Tool

You can launch ZStack command line tool by:

zstack-cli

Now your ZStack environment is ready, please visit Tutorials to create your first cloud deployment using either web UI or command line tool, or check out User Manual for a full reference.