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Administration Guide
This guide describes the basics of running and managing Nova.
Running the Cloud
The fastest way to get a test cloud running is by following the
directions in the ../quickstart.
Nova's cloud works via the interaction of a series of daemon
processes that reside persistently on the host machine(s). Fortunately,
the ../quickstart
process launches sample versions of all these daemons for you. Once you
are familiar with basic Nova usage, you can learn more about daemons by
reading ../service.architecture and binaries.
Administration Utilities
There are two main tools that a system administrator will find useful to manage their Nova cloud:
nova.manage euca2ools
nova-manage may only be run by users with admin priviledges.
euca2ools can be used by all users, though specific commands may be
restricted by Role Based Access Control. You can read more about
creating and managing users in managing.users
User and Resource Management
nova-manage and euca2ools provide the basic interface to perform a broad range of administration functions. In this section, you can read more about how to accomplish specific administration tasks.
For background on the core objects refenced in this section, see
../object.model
managing.users managing.projects managing.instances managing.images managing.volumes managing.networks
Deployment
talk about deployment scenarios
multi.node.install
Networking
multi.node.install
Advanced Topics
flags monitoring