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HOWTO: Using the Wizard for first time connection

ibmcb edited this page Jan 17, 2013 · 3 revisions

After clicking "Wizard" on the front page, read the initial instructions on the page:

Take a quick read here, as it explains startup information about the toolkit.

Introduction

Then, click next and to go to "Choose Cloud":

Each parameter on this screen corresponds exactly to the way you would normally connect to your original cloud infrastructure. So, depending on the type of Cloud you have, the screen will update to reflect the parameters needed to connect to your cloud so that the toolkit can interact with it.

Choose Cloud

Next, "Configure Cloud":

This part of the wizard needs information from you on all the parameters necessary for creating virtual machines in your Cloud, which the toolkit must also do automatically:

Configure Cloud

Then, Do some Customization:

You probably won't want to change too many parameters unless you are using the toolkit as a more advanced user. Things like moving the Mongodb database to another location or the Redis database to another location or changing the way monitoring works and so forth can be controlled here. These things can also be done by editing the configuration file directly, but it helps to show you how they are organized here.

Configure Cloud

Finally, Connect!

Here, the wizard will allow you to connect immediately using the configuration you have just generated from the wizard. Just be sure to save the configuration to a local file so that you don't have to regenerate it again.

Configure Cloud

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