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CLOUDSTACK-1598: update global-config.xml doc to include new section "About Global Configuration Settings"
Signed-off-by: Joe Brockmeier <jz...@zonker.net>
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Commit: 301c683c099a568412f2db2ad24a9bb8441951ca
Parents: c6e226d
Author: David Grizzanti <dg...@gmail.com>
Authored: Mon Apr 8 16:53:11 2013 -0400
Committer: Joe Brockmeier <jz...@zonker.net>
Committed: Mon Apr 8 19:40:24 2013 -0500
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under the License.
-->
<chapter id="global-config">
+ <title>Global Configuration Parameters</title>
+ <section id="setting-global-config-parameters">
<title>Setting Global Configuration Parameters</title>
<para>&PRODUCT; provides parameters that you can set to control many aspects of the cloud. When
&PRODUCT; is first installed, and periodically thereafter, you might need to modify these
@@ -51,4 +53,81 @@
must click the name of the hypervisor first to display the editing screen.</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
+ </section>
+ <section id="about-global-config-parameters">
+ <title>About Global Configuration Parameters</title>
+ <para>&PRODUCT; provides a variety of settings you can use to set limits, configure features,
+ and enable or disable features in the cloud. Once your Management Server is running, you might
+ need to set some of these global configuration parameters, depending on what optional features
+ you are setting up.</para>
+ <para>To modify global configuration parameters, use the steps in "Setting Global Configuration
+ Parameters."</para>
+ <para>The documentation for each &PRODUCT; feature should direct you to the names of the applicable
+ parameters. Many of them are discussed in the &PRODUCT; Administration Guide. The following table
+ shows a few of the more useful parameters.</para>
+ <informaltable frame="all">
+ <tgroup cols="2" align="left" colsep="1" rowsep="1">
+ <colspec colnum="1" colname="c1" colwidth="2*"/>
+ <colspec colnum="2" colname="c2" colwidth="1*"/>
+ <thead>
+ <row>
+ <entry><para>Field</para></entry>
+ <entry><para>Value</para></entry>
+ </row>
+ </thead>
+ <tbody>
+ <row>
+ <entry><para>management.network.cidr</para></entry>
+ <entry><para>A CIDR that describes the network that the management CIDRs reside on. This
+ variable must be set for deployments that use vSphere. It is recommended to be set for
+ other deployments as well. Example: 192.168.3.0/24.</para></entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><para>xen.setup.multipath</para></entry>
+ <entry><para>For XenServer nodes, this is a true/false variable that instructs CloudStack to
+ enable iSCSI multipath on the XenServer Hosts when they are added. This defaults to false.
+ Set it to true if you would like CloudStack to enable multipath.</para>
+ <para>If this is true for a NFS-based deployment multipath will still be enabled on the
+ XenServer host. However, this does not impact NFS operation and is harmless.</para></entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><para>secstorage.allowed.internal.sites</para></entry>
+ <entry><para>This is used to protect your internal network from rogue attempts to download
+ arbitrary files using the template download feature. This is a comma-separated list of CIDRs.
+ If a requested URL matches any of these CIDRs the Secondary Storage VM will use the private
+ network interface to fetch the URL. Other URLs will go through the public interface.
+ We suggest you set this to 1 or 2 hardened internal machines where you keep your templates.
+ For example, set it to 192.168.1.66/32.</para></entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><para>use.local.storage</para></entry>
+ <entry><para>Determines whether CloudStack will use storage that is local to the Host for data
+ disks, templates, and snapshots. By default CloudStack will not use this storage. You should
+ change this to true if you want to use local storage and you understand the reliability and
+ feature drawbacks to choosing local storage.</para></entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><para>host</para></entry>
+ <entry><para>This is the IP address of the Management Server. If you are using multiple
+ Management Servers you should enter a load balanced IP address that is reachable via
+ the private network.</para></entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><para>default.page.size</para></entry>
+ <entry><para>Maximum number of items per page that can be returned by a CloudStack API command.
+ The limit applies at the cloud level and can vary from cloud to cloud. You can override this
+ with a lower value on a particular API call by using the page and pagesize API command parameters.
+ For more information, see the Developer's Guide. Default: 500.</para></entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><para>ha.tag</para></entry>
+ <entry><para>The label you want to use throughout the cloud to designate certain hosts as dedicated
+ HA hosts. These hosts will be used only for HA-enabled VMs that are restarting due to the failure
+ of another host. For example, you could set this to ha_host. Specify the ha.tag value as a host tag
+ when you add a new host to the cloud.</para></entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </informaltable>
+ </section>
</chapter>