Appliance Manager

An utility aimed at managing NBFS appliance using published NBFS REST APIs and Plugin Manager.

Table of Contents

• Appliance Manager
  • Setup Instructions
    • Instructions with custom options
  • Appliance Manager UI

Setup Instructions

Setting up Appliance Manager involves following steps:

1. Setup requirements to run appliance manager by running make setup.
2. Start appliance-manager server make start.
3. Open browser http://{{host}}:8081

Instructions with custom options

If you would like use your own built custom UI, or specify appliance manager to run on a specific port, refer to below instructions:

1. Get latest version of Plugin Manager v2, and check out v2 branch. Build by running make build inside plugin-manager to get pm binary.
2. Set PM_WEB environment variable to point to your UI/web directory.
3. Start Plugin Manager server: pm server -port <port-number>.
4. Appliance Manager can now be accessed via http://{{server}}:{{port-number}}/.

Appliance Manager UI

1. Select actions and specify parameters as shown below:
2. Click on View steps to see the tasks involved: