A Novell Cloud Manager zone consists of one PlateSpin Orchestrate Server and its managed VM hosts. You add a zone by defining a connection to the PlateSpin Orchestrate Server. Once you define the connection, the zone’s hosts and VM templates become available for use in Novell Cloud Manager.
In the Cloud Manager console, if the Zones page is not already displayed, click , then click .
Click to display the Add Zone dialog box.
Provide the following information:
Name: Provide a name for the zone. The name should be different than any other zone name. This name is displayed in Novell Cloud Manager to both administrators and users.
Description: If desired, add more information to further identify the zone. The description is displayed in Novell Cloud Manager to administrators only.
Server Address: Specify the DNS name or IP address of the PlateSpin Orchestrate Server.
Server Port: Specify the port used by the PlateSpin Orchestrate Server Web Service.
Username: Specify the Administrator username that enables login to the PlateSpin Orchestrate Server.
Password: Specify and confirm the password for the username you supplied.
Secure Connection: Select this option if the PlateSpin Orchestrate Server Web Service uses a secure connection.
IMPORTANT:After you define a PlateSpin Orchestrate Server as a zone, you are not allowed to modify the server address, server port, or connection type (secure or unsecure) for the zone definition. This means that if you change the address or port number of the Orchestrate Server, you must delete the zone, which requires removal of all business services, workload templates, service levels, and so forth associated with the zone, and then define the zone again with the new server address and port. For this reason, we strongly suggest that you not change the Orchestrate Server address and port after defining it as a zone.
Click to add the zone to the list.
When you have finished adding zones, click to close the System Configuration dialog box.