Author: John Hardy

Example using Tagging for Displaying Pricing and Quota on Service Dialogs

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John Hardy, Senior Principal Product Manager, Red Hat

 

Introduction

This post explains a solution whereby Red Hat CloudForms is enabled to show back to the users their remaining tenant budget when ordering services via the service catalog. The implementation uses CloudForms taxonomy and custom methods to display service costs, quota, and a message on the Service Dialog screen.

Use-Case

As a user, I wish to be presented the cost of the service I am ordering, along with my current budget and remaining budget when the service is ordered. I would like my budget to be set and maintained at my tenant level.

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CMDB Integration Architecture Examples for CloudForms

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John Hardy, Senior Principal Product Manager, Red Hat

Introduction

This document is to position two different types of integration with a CMDB and Red Hat CloudForms.

We discuss the use of HP uCMDB because it supports both types of integration but also other CMDBs are available such as Service-Now.

The two types of integration are known as;

Pull – Where by the information/data is collected (Pulled) by the CMDB from the end points. CMDB Server initiated.

Push – Where by the information/data is sent (Pushed) to the CMDB server by the end point. Endpoint initiated.

Other CMDB servers may not support a PULL approach at which point you have only the PULL solution as the only option.

We shall now dive deep into each integration type.

 

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Accessing Guest RDP and SSH via Custom Buttons

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John Hardy, Senior Principal Product Manager, Red Hat

First let’s talk about Remote Session vs Remote Console, they are often confused.

 

  • Remote Session – Provides the user a server session on the remote host. Multiple sessions can be established with same or different credentials.
  • Remote Console (Also known as Remote Control) – Provides the actual console screen to the user, still a session but the systems local session. Only one console session can exist. Any credentials with rights to log on locally can obtain the system session. (Default in Windows is Deny)

 

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OpenStack Management with CloudForms

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John Hardy, Senior Principal Product Manager, Red Hat

Here are my slides from Red Hat Summit, its a repeat of the OpenStack Summit presentation with two important things!

  1. The videos are now all up individually on youtube.
  2. It now includes the Heat/Cloudformations orchestration demonstration.

Here are the slides, the videos can be found in links after each relevant slide. Enjoy!

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inspectXML – Dump objects as XML

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John Hardy, Senior Principal Product Manager, Red Hat

This is pretty simple but very useful. I have done a little research and whilst inspect is a way of seeing inside of an object its also hard to read and not very re-usable. Being somewhat old now (crazy thought) XML used to be the way we described things. Yes I know yaml, json etc have come to replace XML in languages such as Ruby, but I cannot get away from XML is far easier to read and self describing than the aforementioned.

If you have used InspectME that ships with the product then this is the same but in XML format, with a few advantages…

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