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== Horizon Dashboard ==
 
== Horizon Dashboard ==
  
Horizon is the dashboard for Openstack.  It provides a web based interface to manage other Open Stack services.
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Horizon is the web front end to the other openstack components.  It allows you to control most operations and function of you cloud, including launch instances, assinging IP address and setting access controls.
  
== Starting Horizon ==
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Horizon is not the only way to access and control the cloud, it is just a simple and easy way to do so. Everything that can be done through the dash board can also be done through the command lines tools.
  
Start the serive with the manage.py script, beofre pointing your browser at the IP of the system.
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In addition the APIs allow these control.s to be integrated into with other tools
 
 
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tools/with_venv.sh ./manage.py runserver
 
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Latest revision as of 10:41, 12 January 2015

Horizon Dashboard

Horizon is the web front end to the other openstack components. It allows you to control most operations and function of you cloud, including launch instances, assinging IP address and setting access controls.

Horizon is not the only way to access and control the cloud, it is just a simple and easy way to do so. Everything that can be done through the dash board can also be done through the command lines tools.

In addition the APIs allow these control.s to be integrated into with other tools