Installation and Getting Started

This section guides you through the necessary operating system preparation and the installation and configuration process of the openATTIC software.

The installation can be broken down into the following steps:

1. Base Operating System Installation
2. Basic Storage Configuration

3. openATTIC installation:

   • Installation on Debian Linux
   • Installation on Ubuntu Linux
   • Installation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (and Derivatives)
   • Installation on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and openSUSE Leap

4. Post-installation Configuration
5. Download Preconfigured Virtual Machine
6. Getting started

• System requirements
• Base Operating System Installation
  • Post-installation Operating System Configuration
• Basic Storage Configuration
  • Create an LVM Volume Group for openATTIC
  • Tag OS Volume Groups / Logical Volumes
  • Create a ZFS zpool
• Installation on Debian Linux
  • Importing the openATTIC Keyfile
  • Enabling the openATTIC Apt Package Repository
  • Package Installation
• Installation on Ubuntu Linux
  • Importing the openATTIC Keyfile
  • Enabling the openATTIC Apt Package Repository
  • Package Installation
• Installation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (and Derivatives)
  • Preliminary Preparations on RHEL 7
  • Disable SELinux
  • Yum Repository Configuration
  • Package Installation
  • Configure PNP4Nagios on EL7
• Installation on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and openSUSE Leap
  • Zypper Repository Configuration
  • Package Installation
• Post-installation Configuration
  • openATTIC Base Configuration
  • Changing the Default User Password
  • Installing additional openATTIC Modules
• Enabling Ceph Support in openATTIC
• DeepSea integration in openATTIC
  • Rados Gateway management features
• Download Preconfigured Virtual Machine
• Getting started
  • Accessing the Web UI
• Installing an openATTIC Multi-node System
  • Step 1 - Install Two openATTIC Hosts
  • Step 2 - Database Configuration on openattic01
  • Step 3 - Remote Database Configuration on openattic02
  • Step 4 - Execute oaconfig install on openattic02
• Configuring Authentication and Single Sign-On
  • Authentication
  • Authorization
  • Joining openATTIC to a Windows Active Directory Domain Using oaconfig
  • Configuring Domain Authentication and Single Sign-On
  • Troubleshooting Authentication Issues
• Hardware Recommendations
• Storage Recommendations
• Further Operating System Configuration Hints