OpenNebula Self-Service requires working installation of OpenNebula OCCI server. Check the following pages for more information on setting up OpenNebula OCCI:

• OCCI Server Configuration: Specially the information provided in the requirements, configuration and usage sections.

OpenNebula SelfService supports Firefox (> 3.5) and Chrome browsers. Internet Explorer, Opera and others are not supported and may not work well.

OpenNebula Self-Service is a simplified UI, therefore it implements only most of the operations supported by OpenNebula OCCI. For more advanced controls of your OpenNebula cloud, please check OpenNebula Sunstone Cloud Operations Center

Start the OCCI server:

<xterm> occi-server start </xterm>

Point your browser to http://occi.server.url:port/ui. For example, by default you could access by pointing your browser to http://localhost:4567/ui.

You will be able to use your OpenNebula user credentials to login.

In the Compute tab, OpenNebula Self-Service will display a list of current compute resources and an indicator of their state (green for active, red for fail and yellow for the rest. You can see more information for each resource by clicking on them.

Users can create easily a new resource filling in the creation form, selecting the storage and network resources you would like to associate to it.

In the Storage tab, you will find a list of current storages defined. You can find more information by clicking on them.

Users can upload new images to OpenNebula at the time of creating a new storage resources. An upload progress bar will be shown. Take into account that large images can take a long time to upload.

In the Network tab, you will see a list of your current networks. You can see extended information clicking on them.

OpenNebula Self-Service (and OCCI) currently only supports the creation of ranged virtual networks.