Installing VCL 2.3 Install & Configure: I. Database II. Web Components III. Management Node Components IV. Adding LDAP authentication -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. Install & Configure the Database 1. Download & Extract the Apache VCL Source a. If you have not already done so, download and the Apache VCL source to the database server: wget http://www.apache.org/dist/vcl/apache-VCL-2.3.tar.bz2 b. Extract the files: tar -jxvf apache-VCL-2.3.tar.bz2 2. Install MySQL Server a. Install MySQL Server 5.x: yum install mysql-server -y b. Configure the MySQL daemon (mysqld) to start automatically: /sbin/chkconfig --level 345 mysqld on c. Start the MySQL daemon: /sbin/service mysqld start d. If the iptables firewall is being used and the web server and management nodes will be on different machines, port 3306 should be opend up Note the following rules are for Red Hat based distros. vi /etc/sysconfig/iptables Insert the following under the RH-Firewall-1-INPUT chain, changing and to match your configuration. -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -s -p tcp --dport 3306 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -s -p tcp --dport 3306 -j ACCEPT service iptables restart For more info on iptables: man iptables 3. Create the VCL Database a. Run the MySQL command-line client: mysql b. Create a database: CREATE DATABASE vcl; c. Create a user with SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, and CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES privileges on the database you just created: Replace vcluser and vcluserpassword in the SQL statement with that of the user you want to use to connect to the database. The GRANT command will automatically create the user if it doesn't already exist. GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE,CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES ON vcl.* TO 'vcluser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'vcluserpassword'; d. Exit the MySQL command-line client: exit e. Import the vcl.sql file into the database: mysql vcl < apache-VCL-2.3/mysql/vcl.sql The vcl.sql file is included in the mysql directory within the Apache VCL source code -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- II. Install & Configure the Web Components Prerequisites: The following instructions assume these tasks have previously been completed: * Apache VCL 2.3 has been downloaded * VCL database has been installed and configured Web Server: * Apache HTTP Server v1.3 or v2.x with SSL enabled * PHP 5.0 or later The VCL web frontend may run under other web server platforms capable of running PHP code, but has only been tested to work with Apache HTTP Server Required Linux Packages(See II.1 section below on installing) * httpd - Apache HTTP Server * mod_ssl - SSL/TLS module for the Apache HTTP server * php - The PHP HTML-embedded scripting language Required PHP Modules(See II.1 section below on installing): (Some of these may already be included with your PHP distribution) * php-gd * php-json (required if your PHP version is 5.2 or later) * php-mysql * php-openssl * php-sysvsem * php-xml * php-xmlrpc * php-ldap (if you will be using LDAP authentication) * php-process (for RHEL/CentOS 6) 1. Install the Required Linux Packages & PHP Modules a. If your web server is running a Red Hat-based OS, the required components can be installed with: For RHEL / CentOS 5 yum install httpd mod_ssl php-gd php-mcrypt php-mysql php-xml php-xmlrpc php-ldap -y For RHEL / CentOS 6 yum install httpd mod_ssl php-gd php-mcrypt php-mysql php-xml php-xmlrpc php-ldap php-process -y Note: You may need the optional server rpm repository for the php-process package to add this run the following command: rhn-channel --add --channel=rhel-x86_64-server-optional-6 b. Configure the web server daemon (httpd) to start automatically: /sbin/chkconfig --level 345 httpd on c. Start the web server daemon: /sbin/service httpd start d. If SELinux is enabled, run the following command to allow the web server to connect to the database: /usr/sbin/setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect=1 e. If the iptables firewall is being used, port 80 and 443 should be opened up: vi /etc/sysconfig/iptables Insert the following lines. -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -p tcp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT service iptables restart 2. Install the VCL Frontend Web Code a. Copy the web directory to a location under the web root of your web server and navigate to the destination .ht-inc subdirectory: cp -r apache-VCL-2.3/web/ /var/www/html/vcl cd /var/www/html/vcl/.ht-inc b. Copy secrets-default.php to secrets.php: cp secrets-default.php secrets.php c. Edit the secrets.php file: vi secrets.php * Set the following variables to match your database configuration: * $vclhost * $vcldb * $vclusername * $vclpassword * Create random passwords for the following variables: * $cryptkey * $pemkey * Save the secrets.php file d. Run the genkeys.sh script ./genkeys.sh e. Copy conf-default.php to conf.php: cp conf-default.php conf.php f. Modify conf.php to match your site vi conf.php Modify every entry under "Things in this section must be modified". Descriptions and pointers for each value are included within conf.php. * COOKIEDOMAIN - set this to the domain name your web server is using or leave it blank if you are only accessing the web server by its IP address g. Set the owner of the .ht-inc/maintenance directory to the web server user (normally 'apache'): chown apache maintenance h. Open the testsetup.php page in a web browser: * If you set up your site to be https://my.server.org/vcl/ open https://my.server.org/vcl/testsetup.php * Debug any issues reported by testsetup.php 3. Log In to the VCL Website a. Open the index.php page (https://my.server.org/vcl/index.php) * Select Local Account * Username: admin * Password: adminVc1passw0rd b. Set the admin user password (optional): * Click User Preferences * Enter the current password: adminVc1passw0rd * Enter a new password * Click Submit Changes 4. Add a Management Node to the Database a. Click the Management Nodes link * Click Add * Fill in these required fields: * Hostname - The name of the management node server. This value doesn't necessarily need to be a name registered in DNS nor does it need to be the value displayed by the Linux hostname command. For example, if you are installing all of the VCL components on the same machine you can set this value to localhost. * IP address - enter the IP address that matches the hostname you entered (if you entered localhost for hostname, use 127.0.0.1) * Owner - probably admin@Local * SysAdmin Email Address - error emails will be sent to this address (not required, but a really good idea to fill in) * Install Path - this is parent directory under which image files will be stored - only required if doing bare metal installs or using VMWare with local disks * End Node SSH Identity Key Files - probably just enter "/etc/vcl/vcl.key" * Optionally, fill in these fields: * Address for Shadow Emails - End users are sent various emails about the status of their reservations. If this field is configured, copies of all of those emails will be sent to this address. * Public NIC configuration method - this defaults to Dynamic DHCP - if DHCP is not available for the public interface of your nodes, you can set this to Static. Then, the IP configuration on the nodes will be manually set using Public Netmask, Public Gateway, Public DNS Server, and the IP address set for the computer under Manage Computers b. Click Confirm Management Node c. Click Submit d. Click the Management Nodes link * Select Edit Management Node Grouping * Click Submit * Select the checkbox for your management node * Click Submit Changes 5. Install & Configure phpMyAdmin (Optional): phpMyAdmin is a free and optional tool which allows MySQL to be administered using a web browser. It makes administering the VCL database easier. This tool can be installed on the VCL web server. To install phpMyAdmin, follow the instructions on: VCL 2.3 phpMyAdmin Installation & Configuration http://cwiki.apache.org/VCL/vcl-23-phpmyadmin-installation-configuration.html Further steps if using only VMWare If you will only be using bare metal provisioning, you can skip down to "Further steps if using xCAT". If you are using standalone VMware servers (i.e. ones that VCL did not deploy using xCAT), you first need to configure a VM Profile to match your setup. Next, add the VMWare servers. Then, you need to add the virtual machines. You can either add them individually (Adding Individual VMWare Servers/Virtual Machines), or if they have sequential hostnames and IP addresses, you can add them all at once (Adding Multiple VMWare Servers/Virtual Machines). Once you have added at least one computer, you can add more computers by going to Manage Computers->Edit Computer Information and clicking Add Single Computer or Add Multiple Computers. Configure VM Profile(s) 1. Click Virtual Hosts 2. Select the VM Host Profiles tab 3. Select a profile whose name matches your setup or click New Profile... a. If using an existing profile, click Configure Profile b. If creating a new profile: i. Enter the name of the profile ii. Click Create Profile 4. Configure the profile to match your setup. Hover over any ? icons to get further information about that field. More information is available on the VMware Configuration page: http://cwiki.apache.org/VCL/vmware-configuration.html NOTE: Just click on the text of any field you want to edit to change it. After changing it, click somewhere else to save the changed value for that field. Changes are immediate; there is no "save" button for this tab. Adding Individual VMware Servers 1. Click Manage Computers 2. Select the Add Single Computer radio button 3. Click Submit 4. Fill in the following: * Hostname * Type - blade * Public IP Address * Private IP Address (optional) * Public MAC Address (optional) * Private MAC Address (optional) * Provisioning Engine - "None" * State - vmhostinuse * VM Host Profile - use a default profile or one configured in the previous step * Owner - admin@Local * RAM * No. Cores * Processor Speed * Network Speed * Physical Location (optional) * Click the checkbox under allComputers 5. Click Confirm Computer 6. Click Submit * The computer you just added isn't listed after clicking Submit. This is not a problem. Adding Multiple VMWare Servers 1. Click Manage Computers 2. Select the Add Multiple Computers radio button 3. Click Submit 4. Fill in the following: * Hostname - the hostnames of all the computers must have a numerical part that is sequential, use a % as a placeholder where that part would be * Start value - the first number of the numerical part of the hostname * End value - the last number of the numerical part of the hostname * Type - blade * Start Public IP Address - if using static public addresses, the IP addresses must be sequential; enter the first address here; if using DHCP, just enter something like 1.1.1.1 * End Public IP address - the last IP address of the sequence; if using DHCP, you'll need to enter something that would work out to the last address relative to Start Public IP Address (i.e. if adding 3 computers, use 1.1.1.1 for start and 1.1.1.3 for end) * Start Private IP Address (optional) - the IP addresses must be sequential; enter the first private address here * End Private IP address (optional) - the last IP address of the sequence * Start MAC Address (optional) - if MAC addresses are sequential, with the first one being the private MAC address for the first computer, the second one being the public MAC address for the first computer, the third one being the private MAC address of the second computer, etc, you can enter the first one here and then have the option of downloading data to add to your dhcpd.conf file from the Computer Utilities page * Provisioning Engine - "None" * State - vmhostinuse * VM Host Profile - use a default profile or one configured in the previous step * Owner - admin@Local * RAM * No. Cores * Processor Speed * Network Speed * Physical Location (optional) * Click the checkbox under allComputers 5. Click Confirm Computers 6. Click Submit Adding Individual Virtual Machines 1. Click Manage Computers 2. Select Edit Computer Information 3. Click Submit 4. Click Add Single Computer 5. Fill in the following: * Hostname * Type - virtualmachine * Public IP Address * Private IP Address * Public MAC Address * Private MAC Address NOTE: For VMware virtual machines, the MAC addresses you choose must be in the range 00:50:56:00:00:00 - 00:50:56:3F:FF:FF. Pay special attention to the upper bound of this range. 00:50:56:40:00:00 - 00:50:56:FF:FF:FF are NOT valid VMware virtual machines. * Provisioning Engine - VMware * State - maintenance * Owner - admin@Local * RAM * No. Cores * Processor Speed * Network Speed * Check All VM Computers and newvmimages 6. Click Confirm Computer 7. Click Submit Adding Multiple Virtual Machines 1. Click Manage Computers 2. Select Edit Computer Information 3. Click Submit 4. Click Add Multiple Computers 5. Fill in the following: * Hostname - the hostnames of all the computers must have a numerical part that is sequential, use a % as a placeholder where that part would be * Start value - the first number of the numerical part of the hostname * End value - the last number of the numerical part of the hostname * Type - virtualmachine * Start Public IP Address - if using static public addresses, the IP addresses must be sequential; enter the first address here; if using DHCP, just enter something like 1.1.1.1 * End Public IP address - the last IP address of the sequence; if using DHCP, you'll need to enter something that would work out to the last address relative to Start Public IP Address (i.e. if adding 3 computers, use 1.1.1.1 for start and 1.1.1.3 for end) * Start Private IP Address - similar to Start IP Address, but for the private side * End Private IP Address - similar to the End IP Address but for the private side * Start MAC Address - if MAC addresses are sequential, with the first one being the private MAC address for the first computer, the second one being the public MAC address for the first computer, the third one being the private MAC address of the second computer, etc, you can enter the first one here and then have the option of downloading data to add to your dhcpd.conf file from the Computer Utilities page NOTE: For VMware virtual machines, the MAC addresses you choose must be in the range 00:50:56:00:00:00 - 00:50:56:3F:FF:FF. Pay special attention to the upper bound of this range. 00:50:56:40:00:00 - 00:50:56:FF:FF:FF are NOT valid VMware virtual machines. * Provisioning Engine - VMware * State - maintenance * Owner - admin@Local * RAM * No. Cores * Processor Speed * Network Speed * Check All VM Computers and newvmimages 6. Click Confirm Computers 7. Click Submit Assign Virtual Machine(s) to a Virtual Host 1. Click Virtual Hosts 2. On the VM Hosts tab, select the virtual host server added previously 3. Click Configure Host, You should see VM limit set to a number along with the vm profile, two columns of VMs assigned to host and Unassigned VMs 4. Adjust the VM limit to the desired number of vms you would like to run on this host Please consult your hypervisor documentation for the recommended number of virtual machines to run concurrently for your virtual server configuration. 5. Select the virtual machine nodes from the Unassigned VMs: column 6. Click Add Add entries to dhcpd.conf You need to add entries for your VMs to your dhcpd.conf file so that they will correctly be assigned their private addresses at boot. 1. Click Manage Computers 2. Select the All VM Computers group in the list at the top 3. Select the Computer Utilities radio button 4. Click Submit 5. Click the Check All link at the bottom of the table 6. Next to "For selected computers, generate computer data for", select "dhcpd" 7. Click Generate Data 8. Enter the private IP address for your management node 9. Click Generate Data 10. Copy/Paste the data for dhcpd.conf to the dhcpd.conf file on your management node (ignore the part for dhcpd.leases) 11. Restart dhcpd: service dhcpd restart 12. Scroll to the bottom and click Close Add entries to /etc/hosts You need to add entries for your VM hosts and VMs to /etc/hosts 1. Click Manage Computers 2. Select the All VM Computers and the allComputers groups in the list at the top 3. Select the Computer Utilities radio button 4. Click Submit 5. Click the Check All link at the bottom of the table 6. Next to "For selected computers, generate computer data for", select /etc/hosts 7. Click Generate Data 8. Copy/Paste the data to your /etc/hosts file 9. Click Close Further steps if using xCAT If you will not be doing bare metal provisioning, you can skip down to "III. Install & Configure the Management Node Components". Once you have added at least one computer, you can add more computers by going to Manage Computers->Edit Computer Information and clicking Add Single Computer or Add Multiple Computers". Adding Individual Computers 1. Click Manage Computers 2. Select the Add Single Computer radio button 3. Click Submit 4. Fill in the following: * Hostname * Type - blade * Public IP Address * Private IP Address (optional) * Public MAC Address (optional) * Private MAC Address (optional) * Provisioning Engine - xCAT 2.x * State - available (or maintenance if you do not want it to be immediately available) * Owner - admin@Local * RAM * No. Cores * Processor Speed * Network Speed * Physical Location (optional) * Click the checkboxs under allComputers and newimages 5. Click Confirm Computer 6. Click Submit NOTE: The computer you just added isn't listed after clicking Submit. This is not a problem. Adding Multiple Computers 1. click "Manage Computers" 2. select the "Add Multiple Computers" radio button 3. click Submit 4. fill in * Hostname - the hostnames of all the computers must have a numerical part that is sequential, use a % as a placeholder where that part would be * Start value - the first number of the numerical part of the hostname * End value - the last number of the numerical part of the hostname * Type - blade * Start Public IP Address - if using static public addresses, the IP addresses must be sequential; enter the first address here; if using DHCP, just enter something like 1.1.1.1 * End Public IP address - the last IP address of the sequence; if using DHCP, you'll need to enter something that would work out to the last address relative to Start IP Address (i.e. if adding 3 computers, use 1.1.1.1 for start and 1.1.1.3 for end) * Start Private IP Address (optional) - the IP addresses must be sequential; enter the first private address here * End Private IP Address (optional) - the last IP address of the sequence * Start MAC Address (optional) - if MAC addresses are sequential, with the first one being the private MAC address for the first computer, the second one being the public MAC address for the first computer, the third one being the private MAC address of the second computer, etc, you can enter the first one here and then have the option of downloading data to add to your dhcpd.conf file from the Computer Utilities page * Provisioning Engine - xCAT 2.x * State - available (or maintenance if you do not want them to be immediately available) * Owner - admin@Local * RAM * Processor Speed * Network Speed * Click the checkboxs under allComputers and newimages 5. Click Confirm Computers 6. Click Submit NOTE: The computer you just added isn't listed after clicking Submit. This is not a problem. Add entries to /etc/hosts You need to add entries for your nodes to /etc/hosts 1. Click Manage Computers 2. Select the allComputers group in the list at the top 3. Select the Computer Utilities radio button 4. Click Submit 5. Click the Check All link at the bottom of the table 6. Next to "For selected computers, generate computer data for", select /etc/hosts 7. Click Generate Data 8. Copy/Paste the data to your /etc/hosts file 9. Click Close -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- III. Install & Configure the Management Node Components Supported Operating Systems: The VCL management node daemon (vcld) has been developed to run on an operating system based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It has been tested on the following: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x * CentOS 5.x * CentOS 6.x Required Linux Packages: The VCL management node daemon (vcld) requires the following Linux packages and Perl modules in order to run (see step 2 below for installation instructions): * expat - A library for parsing XML * expat-devel - Libraries and include files to develop XML applications with expat * gcc - Various compilers (C, C++, Objective-C, Java, ...) * krb5-libs - The shared libraries used by Kerberos 5 * krb5-devel - Development files needed to compile Kerberos 5 programs * libxml2 - Library providing XML and HTML support * libxml2-devel - Libraries, includes, etc. to develop XML and HTML applications * mysql - MySQL client programs and shared libraries * nmap - Network exploration tool and security scanner * openssh - The OpenSSH implementation of SSH protocol versions 1 and 2 * openssl - The OpenSSL toolkit * openssl-devel - Files for development of applications which will use OpenSSL * perl - The Perl programming language * perl-DBD-MySQL - A MySQL interface for perl * xmlsec1-openssl - OpenSSL crypto plugin for XML Security Library Required Perl Modules: The VCL management node daemon (vcld) is written in Perl and has been tested on Perl 5.8.x. The following Perl modules available from CPAN are also required (see step 2 below for installation instructions): * DBI - Generic Database Interface * Digest::SHA1 - NIST SHA message digest algorithm * Mail::Mailer - Simple mail agent interface * Object::InsideOut - Comprehensive inside-out object support * RPC::XML - A set of classes for core data, message and XML handling * YAML - YAML Ain't Markup Language 1. Install the VCL Management Node Code - Perl Daemon Copy the managementnode directory to the location where you want it to reside (typically /usr/local): cp -r apache-VCL-2.3/managementnode /usr/local/vcl 2. Install the Required Linux Packages & Perl Modules Run the install_perl_libs.pl script: perl /usr/local/vcl/bin/install_perl_libs.pl The last line of the install_perl_libs.pl script output should be: COMPLETE: installed all components Note: The script will hang or terminate if it encounters a problem. If this occurs, you will need to troubleshoot the problem by looking at the output. The install_perl_libs.pl script included in the VCL distribution will attempt to download and install the required Linux packages and Perl modules. It uses the yum utility to install the required Linux packages. The required Perl modules are available from CPAN - The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network. The install_perl_libs.pl script attempts to download and install the required Perl modules by using the CPAN.pm module which is included with most Perl distributions. The yum utility should exist on any modern Red Hat-based Linux distribution (Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora, etc). If yum isn't available on your management node OS, you will need to download and install the required Linux packages manually or by using another package management utility. After installing the required Linux packages, attempt to run the install_perl_libs.pl script again. 3. Configure vcld.conf a. Create the /etc/vcl directory: mkdir /etc/vcl b. Copy the stock vcld.conf file to /etc/vcl: cp /usr/local/vcl/etc/vcl/vcld.conf /etc/vcl c. Edit /etc/vcl/vcld.conf: vi /etc/vcl/vcld.conf The following lines must be configured in order to start the VCL daemon (vcld) and allow it to check in to the database: * FQDN - the fully qualified name of the management node, this should match the name that was configured for the management node in the database * server - the IP address or FQDN of the database server * LockerWrtUser - database user account with write privileges * wrtPass - database user password * xmlrpc_pass - password for xmlrpc api from vcld to the web interface(can be long). This will be used later to sync the database vclsystem user account * xmlrpc_url - URL for xmlrpc api https://my.server.org/vcl/index.php?mode=xmlrpccall d. Save the vcld.conf file 4. Configure the SSH Client The SSH client on the management node should be configured to prevent SSH processes spawned by the root user to the computers it controls from hanging because of missing or different entries in the known_hosts file. Edit the ssh_config file: vi /etc/ssh/ssh_config Set the following parameters: UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null StrictHostKeyChecking no Note: If you do not want these settings applied universally on the management node the SSH configuration can also be configured to only apply these settings to certain hosts or only for the root user. Consult the SSH documentation for more information. 5. Install and Start the VCL Daemon (vcld) Service a. Copy the vcld service script to /etc/init.d and name it vcld: cp /usr/local/vcl/bin/S99vcld.linux /etc/init.d/vcld b. Add the vcld service using chkconfig: /sbin/chkconfig --add vcld c. Configure the vcld service to automatically run at runtime levels 3-5: /sbin/chkconfig --level 345 vcld on d. Start the vcld service: /sbin/service vcld start You should see output similar to the following: Starting vcld daemon: [ OK ] The vcld service can also be started by running the service script directly: /etc/init.d/vcld start e. Check the vcld service by monitoring the vcld.log file: tail -f /var/log/vcld.log You should see the following being added to the log file every few seconds if the management node is checking in with the database: 2012-05-15 13:23:45|25494|vcld:main(167)|lastcheckin time updated for management node 1: 2012-05-15 13:23:45 6. Set the vclsystem account password for xmlrpc api Using the vcld -setup tool, set the vclsystem account. This is needed to properly use the block allocation features. /usr/local/vcl/bin/vcld -setup Select 1. VCL Base Module Select 2. Set Local VCL User Account Password Select 2. vclsystem From the vcld.conf file, paste or type the password from xmlrpc_pass variable and hit enter. 7. Install & Configure the DHCP Service a. Install dhcp if it is not already installed: yum install dhcp -y b. Configure the dhcpd service to automatically start at runlevels 3-5: /sbin/chkconfig --level 345 dhcpd on c. Configure the dhcpd.conf file. vi /etc/dhcpd.conf Configure your dhcpd.conf file according to your network configuration. The contents of the dhcpd.conf file will vary based on how your network is configured. Below is an example of a basic dhcpd.conf file: ddns-update-style none; shared-network eth0 { subnet 10.100.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { ignore unknown-clients; } } You will add host definitions to the dhcpd.conf file after you add computers to VCL using the website. The website will display the dhcpd.conf host definitions after the computers have been added to VCL, which can be copied and pasted into the dhcpd.conf file. d. Start the dhcpd service: /sbin/service dhcpd start 8. Configure Windows Product Keys and/or KMS Server Addresses (Optional) If you will be deploying Windows environments your institution's Windows product key and/or KMS server addresses must be entered into the VCL database. This can be done by running the following command: /usr/local/vcl/bin/vcld -setup Select "Windows OS Module" and follow the prompts. 9. Download Windows Sysprep Utility (Optional) If you will be using VCL to deploy bare-metal Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 environments via xCAT, the appropriate versions of the Microsoft Sysprep utility must be downloaded to the management node. The following steps do not need to be completed if you only intend to deploy VMware virtual machines. The Sysprep utility is included in the Deployment Tools available for free from Microsoft. You do not need to download Sysprep for Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 because it is included in the operating system. The Sysprep files need to be downloaded, extracted, and then copied to the management node. The format of the file available for download is Microsoft's .cab format. It is easiest to extract the files on a Windows computer. Windows Explorer is able to open the .cab file and then the files contained within can be copied elsewhere. a. Windows XP * Download Sysprep for Windows XP: Windows XP Service Pack 3 Deployment Tools * Extract the Windows XP Sysprep Files * Copy the extracted Windows XP Sysprep files to the following directory the management node: /usr/local/vcl/tools/Windows_XP/Utilities/Sysprep b.Windows Server 2003 * Download Sysprep for Windows Server 2003: System Preparation tool for Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 Deployment * Extract the Windows Server 2003 Sysprep Files * Copy the extracted Windows Server 2003 Sysprep files to the following directory the management node: /usr/local/vcl/tools/Windows_Server_2003/Utilities/Sysprep 10. Download Windows Drivers (Optional) Drivers which aren't included with Windows must be downloaded and saved to the management node. The drivers required will vary greatly depending on the hardware. The only way to know what additional drivers you need is to install Windows on a computer and check for missing drivers. The drivers must be copied to the appropriate directory on the management node. The VCL image capture process copies the driver directories to the computer before an image is captured. Drivers from multiple directories will be copied based on the version of Windows being captured. There are driver directories under tools for each version of Windows (Windows XP, Windows 7) and for each version group of Windows (version 5, 6). This allows drivers which are common to multiple versions of Windows to be shared in the management node tools directory structure. Examples: If a chipset driver works for all versions of Windows it should be saved in: /var/lib/vcl/tools/Windows/Drivers/Chipset If Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 both use the same network driver it can be saved in: /var/lib/vcl/tools/Windows_Version_5/Drivers/Network If a storage driver only works for Windows XP it should be saved in: /var/lib/vcl/tools/Windows_XP/Drivers/Storage During the image capture process, each Windows version directory is copied to the computer under C:\Cygwin\home\root\VCL. The order in which the Windows version directories are copied goes from most general to most specific. In the example above, the order would be: /var/lib/vcl/tools/Windows/* /var/lib/vcl/tools/Windows_Version_5/* /var/lib/vcl/tools/Windows_XP/* The following list shows which driver files should be saved in the driver directories: /var/lib/vcl/tools/Windows/Drivers - drivers common to all versions of Windows /var/lib/vcl/tools/Windows_Version_5/Drivers - drivers used by Windows XP and Server 2003 /var/lib/vcl/tools/Windows_XP/Drivers - drivers only used by Windows XP /var/lib/vcl/tools/Windows_Server_2003/Drivers - drivers only used by Windows Server 2003 /var/lib/vcl/tools/Windows_Version_6/Drivers - drivers used by Windows Vista and Server 2008 /var/lib/vcl/tools/Windows_7/Drivers - drivers only used by Windows 7 /var/lib/vcl/tools/Windows_Server_2008/Drivers - drivers only used by Windows Server 2008 The directory structure under each Drivers directory does not matter. It is helpful to organize each directory by driver class, and each directory should be organized using the same theme. For example: /var/lib/vcl/tools/Windows_Version_XP/Drivers/Chipset /var/lib/vcl/tools/Windows_Version_XP/Drivers/Network /var/lib/vcl/tools/Windows_Version_XP/Drivers/Storage /var/lib/vcl/tools/Windows_Version_XP/Drivers/Video 11. Install & Configure Provisioning Engines and Hypervisors VCL supports the following, please see the related websites for installation and configuration instructions: a. xCAT - Extreme Cluster Administration Toolkit * Versions Supported: * 1.3 * 2.x * See the xCAT website for installation & configuration information: http://xcat.sourceforge.net b. VMware * See the VMware website for installation & configuration information: http://www.vmware.com * See the following page for additional VCL VMware configuration information: http://cwiki.apache.org/VCL/vmware-configuration.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IV. Configure Frontend Authentication Adding Local VCL Accounts Local VCL accounts are contained within the VCL database. The admin account is a local VCL account. Additional local accounts can be added via the backend management node code. After you have finished the backend management node installation, run: vcld -setup 1. Select VCL Base Module 2. Select Add Local VCL User Account 3. Enter the requested information Adding LDAP Authentication 1. Prerequisites for your LDAP server: * enable SSL on your LDAP server * Create an account that can look up a user's first and last names, user id, and email address (email address is optional) - this will be referred to as 'vcllookup' in this document. You can skip this step if anonymous binds are enabled on your LDAP server and an anonymous bind will be able to look up userids, names, and email addresses. * if your LDAP server is firewalled, you will need to allow your VCL web server to access tcp port 636 on your LDAP server 2. Prerequisites for your VCL web server: * php-ldap needs to be installed * If your LDAP server SSL certificate is self-signed, your VCL web server needs to have the root CA certificate that was used to sign the LDAP server certificate installed. The PEM formatted certificate needs to be added to the ca-bundle.crt file. On CentOS, the file is located at /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt The hostname in the certificate must match the hostname entered in the conf.php file further down. If your certificate does not have the correct hostname in it, you can put an entry in /etc/hosts for the hostname in the certificate. * After adding the certificate, restart httpd: service httpd restart * You can verify that the certificate is properly installed using this command: openssl s_client -showcerts -CAfile /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt \ -connect your.ldap.server.here:636 If you see "Verify return code: 0 (ok)" at the end of the output, then it is installed correctly. If you see a different return code, then you'll need to work through the problem. * You may need to add a line to /etc/openldap/ldap.conf to point to the ca-bundle.crt file. It is difficult to explain if you need it or not, but if you do, add the following: TLS_CACERT /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt 3. Adding LDAP Authentication to the Web Code * You will need to manually add an entry to the affiliation table in the VCL database. Choose a name for the affiliation. This will be appended to all userids for the affiliation to distinguish them from other affiliations you may configure later. Do not use the Global affiliation for this. Initials or a short name of your organization are a good idea. The affiliation name cannot contain spaces. Use the following to add the affiliation, replacing 'EXAMPLE' with the name you chose. Take note of the id from the 2nd SQL statement as you will need it later. It is the numerical id for this affiliation. mysql vcl INSERT INTO affiliation (name) VALUES ('EXAMPLE'); SELECT id FROM affiliation WHERE name = 'EXAMPLE'; exit * Edit conf.php and search for "EXAMPLE1 LDAP" * Uncomment the "EXAMPLE1 LDAP" section by removing the '/*' before it and the '*/' at the end of 'to use this login mechanism' * Change 'EXAMPLE1 LDAP' to something to match your location, for example at NCSU, it is 'NCSU LDAP'. This string is what users will see where they select the authentication mechanism to use when logging in. * Modify the following fields: * server - this is the hostname of your LDAP server - this must match the hostname in the certificate * binddn - typically, you'll want to use the base DN of your LDAP server; for Active Directory, this is usually dc= for each of your domain name components. For example, your your domain name was ad.example.org, it would be "dc=ad,dc=example,dc=org" * userid - this is a string that is added to the userid a user enters on the login page. Place a '%s' where the entered userid should go. Some examples are: * %s@example.org * %s@ad.example.org * uid=%s,ou=accounts,dc=example,dc=org' * unityid - this is the ldap field that contains a user's login id (for Active Directory, this is usually sAMAccountName) * firstname - this is the ldap field that contains a user's first name * lastname - this is the ldap field that contains a user's last name * email - this is the ldap field that contains a user's email address * defaultemail - if an email address is not provided by the ldap server, this will be appended to the end of the userid to create an email address. In this case, email notifications will be disabled by default * masterlogin - this is the vcllookup account referred to in the "Prerequisites for your LDAP server" section - comment out this line if using anonymous binds * masterpwd - password for the masterlogin account - comment out this line if using anonymous binds * affiliationid - this is the id from the SELECT statement in the first step * lookupuserbeforeauth - Some LDAP servers will only allow the full DN of a user to be used when authenticating. If this is the case, you will need to set this to 1 and set a value for lookupuserfield. You can probably start out with this set to 0. If your LDAP server has users in multiple containers, you will probably need to set this to 1. * lookupuserfield - If you need to set lookupuserbeforeauth to 1, set this to the attribute to use to search for the user in ldap. Typical values are 'cn', 'uid', and 'samaccountname'. * help - this is some text that will show up on the page where users select the authentication method explaining why they would select this option * uncomment the require_once line for ldapauth.php toward the bottom of the file