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Dan Radez
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Dan Radez

Dan Radez joined the OpenStack community in 2012 in an operator role. His experience is focused on installing, maintaining, and integrating OpenStack clusters. He has been given the opportunity to internationally present OpenStack content to a range of audiences of varying expertise. In January 2015, Dan joined the OPNFV community and has been working to integrate RDO Manager with SDN controllers and the networking features necessary for NFV. Dan's experience includes web application programming, systems release engineering, and virtualization product development. Most of these roles have had an open source community focus to them. In his spare time, Dan enjoys spending time with his wife and three boys, training for and racing triathlons, and tinkering with electronics projects.
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Troubleshooting console access


The URL for console access is generated from a property that is set on each compute node. Look at the nova.conf file on one of your compute nodes for the novncproxy_base_url property:

novncproxy_base_url=http://control.example.com:6080/vnc_auto.html

This base URL is the address of the nova-novncproxy service that will be able to create a console connection to the instance. In the web interface, this URL is retrieved for you when you select the console tab for an instance. At the command line, you can use Nova's get-vnc-console and pass the novnc type to get the console URL:

$ nova console url show --novnc {instance-id}

This will return a URL that will include base_url from the compute node the instance is running on and an authentication token to access the console with. If you paste this URL into a web browser, there are a few steps that happen under the hood to connect you to the instance's console.

First, you need to be able to connect to nova-novncproxy. This...

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Dan Radez

Dan Radez joined the OpenStack community in 2012 in an operator role. His experience is focused on installing, maintaining, and integrating OpenStack clusters. He has been given the opportunity to internationally present OpenStack content to a range of audiences of varying expertise. In January 2015, Dan joined the OPNFV community and has been working to integrate RDO Manager with SDN controllers and the networking features necessary for NFV. Dan's experience includes web application programming, systems release engineering, and virtualization product development. Most of these roles have had an open source community focus to them. In his spare time, Dan enjoys spending time with his wife and three boys, training for and racing triathlons, and tinkering with electronics projects.
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