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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
The nova-manage command may only be run by users with admin
priviledges. Commands for 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
The nova-manage and euca2ools commands 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 referenced 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 network.vlan.rst network.flat.rst
Advanced Topics
flags monitoring