Starting the Charon Manager
To manage Charon-SSP and the emulated SPARC systems, you must connect to the Charon-SSP cloud instance with the Charon-SSP Manager. The Charon-SSP Manager is the main interface to all important functions of the Charon-SSP software. Prerequisites: Initial management password configuration: before connecting to the Charon-SSP host in the cloud with the Charon Manager for the first time after the initial installation you must set the management password. This can either be done via the command line (see SSH Command-Line Access) or via the Charon Manager as described below. To start the Charon-SSP Manager and to open the Charon Manager login window, log in on your Linux management system and use the following command: Step 1: the Charon Manager Login tab If the management password has not yet been set, perform the following steps: If the management password has already been set, perform the following steps: Step 2: the Charon Manager SSH tab If you use the integrated SSH tunnel, perform the following steps: The public key of the key-pair can copied from the Step 3: connecting to the Charon host system After entering all the required information, click on Connect to connect to the Charon-SSP instance. If the management password still needs to be set, you will receive a prompt to enter the new password:General Information
Starting the Charon Manager and Login to Charon Host
Starting the Charon Manager
$ /opt/charon-manager/ssp-manager/ssp-manager
The steps above will open the Charon Manager login window which has two tabs.
Entering Charon Manager Login Information and Connecting to Charon Host
.ssh/authorized_keys
file of the sshuser of the instance.
Problem if the agent on target system is not running or unreachable:
If you receive an error similar to the one displayed in the screenshot below, verify that the host specified in the IP address field is correct and that access is not blocked by a firewall or security group. If the problem persists, connect to your instance via SSH, become the root user and restart the Charon Agent (# systemctl restart ssp-agentd
).
Remember that the automatically assigned public IP address changes when the instance is restarted (this is different from a persistent Elastic IP address).
Charon-SSP Manager for AWS Overview
Charon Manager Main Functions Overview
The image below provides a first overview of the Charon Manager menus:
Other Options Provided by the Charon Manager
The Charon-SSP Manager virtual machine pane on the left has some additional functions applicable to all product variants:
- Double-clicking on Home sorts the virtual machines alphabetically. Repeating the action toggles between ascending and descending sort order.
- The position of a virtual machine in the list can be changed by manual drag-and-drop.
- A right-click in the pane when no virtual machine is selected opens a context menu to create or import a virtual machine.
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