ARTESCA+ Veeam Post-Installation Guidelines¶

The following guidelines only apply to the ARTESCA+ Veeam unified software appliance.

At a high level, the following steps are recommended:

Change default operating system passwords.
Log In to the ARTESCA UI.
Activate the license.
Configure alerting notifications.
Set up identity management.
Set Up ARTESCA+ Veeam.

Change Default Operating System Passwords¶

Note

Proceed with the following if you have not already changed the default operating system passwords during the installation.

The ARTESCA OS provides two users with a respective default and insecure password:

An artesca-os user with the default password scality.
A root user with the default password scalityadmin.

Warning

To ensure the security of your ARTESCA OS, you must log in with these users at least once to update the password.

Refer to Change Password for more information on how to change your passwords.

Once ARTESCA is installed, you cannot SSH as the root user. To log in as the root user, connect directly to the server (physically or using an IPMI console). You must use the root user only on Scality support requests.

Log In to the ARTESCA UI¶

Using the console, retrieve the URL for the management UI.

[artesca-os@bootstrap ~]$

sudo salt-call metalk8s_network.get_control_plane_ingress_endpoint

local:
    <management ui url>

Copy the <management ui url> from the console.
Open your web browser and paste the <management ui url> into the address bar.

You are redirected to the following page.
Enter the default credentials (scality / password) to log in to the console.
Accept the License and Terms of use.
Update your password and click Submit.

You are successfully logged in to the management UI and can proceed with the different procedures.

Activate the ARTESCA License¶

After the initial ARTESCA installation, the system does not have a valid license.

Follow the Missing License procedure to request a valid license from your reseller or the Scality Sales Operations team. From the ARTESCA UI, you can view and manage your license plan by clicking your username on the top right, and selecting License. Once received, activate your product instance using the provided license key.

Configure Alerting Notifications¶

By default, the alerts generated by ARTESCA are displayed only in the ARTESCA UI. This means that you need to log in to the UI to see the alerts.

However, you can configure ARTESCA to send alerts to an email address.

For information on how to configure alert notifications by email, refer to Configuring Alert Notification.

Set Up Identity Management¶

During installation, the first ARTESCA user has been set up to enable you to start working with ARTESCA.

You can chose to manage your ARTESCA users locally or manage them through a federated identity provider from the list of identity providers available for ARTESCA. Currently, only LDAP is supported.

For more information on ARTESCA user roles and how to create them, refer to User Management.
If you want to manage your users through a federated identity provider, refer to LDAP Integration.

You can also chose to enable Multi-Factor Authentication for reinforced security. If this is the case, refer to Configure Multi-Factor Authentication.

Set Up ARTESCA+ Veeam¶

On first login to the ARTESCA+ Veeam UI, the following page displays.

Important

The Veeam license must be deployed before starting the configuration.

If Veeam Backup & Replication is already running, click Continue to assistant to launch the Veeam Backup & Replication startup assistant.

Refer to ARTESCA+ Veeam Integration with VBR for more information.

If you do not want to configure Veeam Backup & Replication at this time, click Skip. The startup assistant can be launched later from the Accounts page or the Data Browser page.

If you want to configure Veeam Backup & Replication manually, refer to Configure ARTESCA for Veeam Backup & Replication for more information.