Servers on CloudBolt Documentation

Server views

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List view

The server list shows all servers for which a user has view permissions, as determined by their group and role memberships. You can filter the list by various facets (select Show Filters) or search it using the table’s search field. If labels are set on any servers, selecting a label filters the table on that label.

Column headers also have a menu to sort and filter that column. Depending on the column, you can pick from a list of values (such as Status, Environment, or Labels), search text in Hostname or Owner, or choose dates in Added. Active filters show as chips above the table. Remove a chip to clear that filter, or select Clear all when more than one is active.

Customize VMs during provisioning

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Extending disks

CMP supports extending the primary disk at provision time for VMs of all OS family types on the VMware and GCP resource handlers. Other resource handlers, including AWS and Azure, do not currently support primary disk extension.

Extending Linux disks

To configure an environment to extend the primary disk on provisioning for Linux servers only:

Add the Extend Primary Disk During Provisioning parameter (extend_root_disk) to the environment and set its value to True.
Include the Disk Size parameter (disk_size) either in a preconfiguration or as a parameter on the group or environment. This value represents the final size, in GB, of the primary disk.

On Linux servers, CMP extends the disk but does not extend partitions to fill the new space. Because of this, CMP does not need to interact with the OS to extend the disk. Extending partitions is the administrator’s responsibility after the server is provisioned.

Use Windows Sysprep with resource handlers

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Microsoft Windows System Preparation (Sysprep) prepares a Windows installation for imaging by removing system-specific data, allowing it to be deployed on other machines.

Sysprep can be used independently or with an Answer file (also known as an unattend file or unattend.xml). The Answer file instructs Sysprep how to configure the operating system during the next boot.

When using Sysprep with an Answer file that includes CMP resource handlers, note that the XML Answer file adheres to a strict schema. Sysprep fails if the Answer file contains malformed XML, misplaced values, or incorrectly structured elements.

Server expiration

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A server or resource is marked for expiration using the Expiration Date parameter.

Server expiration is a recurring job (Admin > Recurring Jobs > Expire Servers). By default, the job runs each day at midnight.

The job runs the Expire Servers action, which spawns a job and executes any enabled Expire actions.

How expiration works

To indicate that a server should expire on a particular date, it must have an Expiration Date value. This can be provided during provisioning, as described in Order Form Customization, or added to a server via the Parameters tab.

Preconfigurations

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A user selects a single named option that applies a combination of settings.

Create a preconfiguration

Go to Admin > Preconfigurations.
Select New preconfiguration.
Enter a Label and Name for the preconfiguration.
Select Include OS build, Include applications, or both, to offer those options as part of the preconfiguration.
From the Custom fields list, select the parameters to include, such as CPUs, Mem Size, and Disk Size. You can select more than one.
Select Create.

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Remote server access

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CMP offers three ways to reach a server remotely, without leaving the browser:

Console: direct hypervisor console access, available on console-capable resource handlers.
Remote Desktop (RDP): graphical access to Windows servers.
SSH: terminal access to servers that support SSH.

When the requirements for a method are met, a Console, Remote Desktop, or SSH button appears on the server’s details page. Select a button to open the connection in a new browser tab.

Snapshots

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A snapshot records the state of a server’s disk (but not its virtual memory) at the moment it is taken. Snapshots are useful during development: if something goes wrong, you can revert the server to the saved state.

CMP can create and revert snapshots on the following server types:

VMware vCenter
Nutanix Acropolis
Microsoft Azure
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
OpenStack
SCVMM
Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager (OLVM)
H3C CAS
OpenShift Virtualization (create only)

CMP manages one snapshot per server at a time. You can also install the Scheduled Snapshots extension to take snapshots automatically and retain several. See Schedule snapshots.

RDP/SSH troubleshooting

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See Remote server access for setup and requirements.

Cloud Management Platform (CMP) runs the remote terminal through two Guacamole services on the CMP server: the Guacamole daemon (guacd) and the Guacamole websocket service (guacg).

Remote connections cannot be established

Confirm the RDP/SSH requirements are met.
Check the CMP logs for error messages.
On the CMP server, confirm that the guacd and guacg services are running: systemctl status guacd guacg.
From the CMP server, confirm you can reach the target server’s port: telnet SERVER_IP 22 for SSH or telnet SERVER_IP 3389 for RDP. If telnet is not installed, use nc -vz SERVER_IP 22.
Check your browser’s JavaScript console for errors, warnings, or other diagnostic information.
Review /var/log/cloudbolt/guacd.log and /var/log/cloudbolt/guacg.log for error messages.

If none of these steps identify the problem, contact Support with your CMP logs and a screenshot of your browser showing the JavaScript console open and any errors.

Servers on CloudBolt Documentation

Server views

List view

Customize VMs during provisioning

Extending disks

Extending Linux disks

Use Windows Sysprep with resource handlers

Server expiration

How expiration works

Preconfigurations

Create a preconfiguration

Remote server access

Snapshots

Tags

Supported platforms

How to use tags

RDP/SSH troubleshooting

Remote connections cannot be established