[ovirt-users] seria consol setup

[Francesco Romani]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fabrice Bacchella" <fabrice.bacchella at orange.fr>
> To: "Francesco Romani" <fromani at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Yedidyah Bar David" <didi at redhat.com>, "users" <users at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2016 1:21:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] seria consol setup
> 
> 
> > Le 23 mars 2016 à 12:32, Francesco Romani <fromani at redhat.com> a écrit :
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Yedidyah Bar David" <didi at redhat.com>
> >> To: "Fabrice Bacchella" <fabrice.bacchella at orange.fr>, "Francesco Romani"
> >> <fromani at redhat.com>
> >> Cc: "users" <users at ovirt.org>
> >> Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2016 12:28:52 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] seria consol setup
> > 
> >>> I can always use puppet to modify just this line, it will be fine for me.
> >>> 
> >>> The point 4 in Automatic Setup is not very helpfull:
> >>> "       • once the setup succesfully run, and once ovirt-engine is
> >>> running,
> >>> you can log in and register a SSH key. (TODO: add picture)"
> >>> 
> >>> what does it mean ?
> > 
> > It just means that you need to add SSH public keys for the users which want
> > to use
> > the serial console.
> > 
> > E.g. log in user portal
> > in the top right corner there is the $user drop down menu, click on it
> > select "options"
> > paste public key here
> > 
> > HTH,
> 
> It tried that, I didn't work.

What didn't work? Adding the keys or -AFAIK- the full authentication?

> By digging in log and configuration, I think
> it's because I have an Apache server in front of ovirt-engine, using a
> specific SSO authentication module (using CAS), so the certificate-base
> authentication is failing, if my comprehension is good. So you should add a
> few line about that in the documentation.

Will improve in this regard

> Should I make the proxy helper
> talks directly to tomcat by playing with ENGINE_BASE_URL in
> /etc/ovirt-engine/ovirt-vmconsole-proxy-helper.conf.d ?

Yes, the proxy helper is supposed to talk directly with the Engine.

> There is also a small glitch in the documentation:
> su - ovirt-vmconsole -c 'ovirt-vmconsole-proxy-keys list'
> but it should be:
> su - ovirt-vmconsole -c '/usr/libexec/ovirt-vmconsole-proxy-keys list'

Thanks, will fix.

Bests,

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Francesco Romani
RedHat Engineering Virtualization R & D
Phone: 8261328
IRC: fromani