CCI Private Cloud - Logging In to a Virtual Machine for the First Time
Portal - Login Information
- Select Resources > Deployments
- Select the Deployment that you'd like to access
- If the deployment you are looking for does not appear you may have to adjust the filter
- Locate the funnel icon next to Deployments at the top
- A filter menu should pop up on the left of your screen. You can set filters based on your Projects and Owner to narrow down to your particular Deployment/VM
- If the deployment you are looking for does not appear you may have to adjust the filter
- Select the Deployment that you'd like to access
- Open the Deployment
- Click on the VM icon and choose the Actions menu, select Connect to Remote Console
- You may need to allow pop-ups from *.cci.wisc.edu
- Enter appropriate username and the temporary administrator password provided at the time of the VM creation:
- Windows user: Administrator
- Linux user: root
- Reset the Administrator/root password immediately upon logging in if needed.
- Update the VM:
- Windows
- Run Windows Update
- Linux
- CentOS Linux:
- Versions prior to 8
- yum -y update
- Versions 8 or later
- dnf -y upgrade
- Versions prior to 8
- Oracle Linux:
- Versions prior to 8
- yum -y update
- Versions 8 or later
- sed -i 's/enabled=1/enabled=0/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/uek-ol8.repo
- dnf -y upgrade
- Versions prior to 8
- Scientific Linux:
- yum -y update
- Ubuntu Linux:
- apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
- apt autoremove -y (not on 14.04)
- CentOS Linux:
- Windows
- Install a vulnerability scanning product:
- Vulnerability scanning
- Install an endpoint protection product:
- Endpoint management
- Install a data discovery tool:
- Data discovery (Spirion)
- Some key combinations cannot be sent using the keyboard. The following key combinations have buttons as a replacement:
- Ctrl+Alt+Del
- Ctrl+C
- To release the cursor from the guest, press Ctrl+Alt