Domains¶

Role access

Only administrators have access to all this features.

To go to the "Domains" section, press the button

And press the dropdown menu

Desktops¶

In this section you can see all the desktops that have been created from all categories.

If you click the icon, you can see more information about the desktop.

Hardware: as its name indicates, it is the hardware that has been assigned to that desktop
Template tree: a visual representation that shows the hierarchy of desktops and the template where this desktop derivates and its dependencies. This is useful to understand the origin of a particular desktop
Storage: indicates the UUID of the disk associated and its use
Media: indicates the media associtated with the desktop, if there is any

Global actions¶

On top of the table we have a dropdown with several actions. These actions will be applied to all selected desktops.

To select a desktop, simply click on the row in the table. The selected desktops will appear as checked in the checkbox at the end of the row. Even if you navigate to the next page, the selected desktops will remain checked.

Alternatively, if you don't select any desktops, you can use the filters above or below the table to filter them.

Warning

If you don't select any desktop or apply any filters, ALL desktops will be selected by default.

Once you have selected the desktops, choose an action from the dropdown to perform it.

Bulk edit desktops¶

You can select multiple desktops by clicking on the rows on the table. Alternatively you can filter the desktops without clicking on the rows and all the desktops seen on the table will count as selected.

If you click the button a modal will appear:

Desktops to edit: Indicates all the desktops that will be updated with the form data. If there are a lot of desktops you can scroll through the list.
Desktops viewers: If it's checked, a new section will appear. The desktops' viewers will be updated as selected.

If "Update RDP credentials" is checked, the username and password used for RDP sessions will be changed too.

Hardware: The data will be changed only on the fields where the value selected is other than "--"

If "Update network" is checked, a new section will appear. The desktops' interfaces will be updated as selected, using the CTRL key while clicking on the options to select more than one interface at once.

Bookable resources: The resources will be updated when the value selected is other than "--"

To apply all changes and update the selected desktops, click the button

Bulk Add Desktops¶

If you click on a modal will appear

This form allows you to create multiple desktops simultaneously. To create them, simply fill out the form by specifying a name for the new desktops and selecting the template that they will be based on.

In the "Allowed" section, you can select the users you wish to create the desktops for by choosing from roles, categories, groups or usernames. A separate desktop will be created for each user selected.

Templates¶

In this section you can see all the templates that have been created from all categories.

If you click on the icon, you can see more information about the template.

Hardware: as its name indicates, it is the hardware that has been assigned to that template
Allows: indicates who has been given permission to use the template

Enable¶

Enabling a template allows all users with whom the template is shared to view and use it for creating desktops.

To enable or disable a template, simply click on the checkbox in the "Enabled" column of the table and confirm your selection in the notification.

If you click on the button located in the top right corner, the templates that are not enabled (visible to the users it's shared with) will not be shown in the table. When clicking on the button again they will be displayed.

Duplicate¶

This option allows you to duplicate in database the template while keeping the original template disk.

Template duplication can be performed multiple times, and is useful for various scenarios, such as:

You want to share template within other categories. You can duplicate the template and assign it to another user in another category with separate sharing permissions for the new copy while maintaining the original version

Deleting a duplicated template will not affect the original template.

When duplicating a template, you can customize the new copy:

Name of the new template
Description of the new template
User assigned as the new owner of the template
Enable or disable visibility of the template to shared users
Select users to share the template with

Delete¶

This option will delete the domain and its disk.

When deleting a template, a modal window will appear displaying all desktops created from it and any templates duplicated. Deleting the template will result in the deletion of all associated domains and their disks.

However, if the template to delete is duplicated from another template, there is no need to delete them all unless the origin template is deleted as well.

Edit¶

If you click the button a modal will appear. In this modal you can edit the desktop's parameters.

XML¶

If you click the button a modal will appear where you can modify the KVM/QEMU XML configuration file of the virtual machine.

Media¶

In this section you can see all the media files that have been uploaded from all categories.

Resources¶

In this section you can see all the resources that the installation has, these will appear when creating a desktop/template.

Graphics¶

In this section you can add different types of viewers with which you can see a desktop.

To add a new viewer, click the button

And the fill out the form

Videos¶

In this section you can add different video formats.

To add a new format, press the button

And the fill out the form

(heads -> cuantos monitores quieres)

Interfaces¶

In this section you can add private networks to desktops.

To add a network, press the button

And the fill out the form

Type: Bridge , Network, OpenVSwitch, Personal

Bridge: It links with a bridge to a server network. On the server you can have interfaces that link, for example, with vlans to a backbone of your network, and you can map these interfaces in isard and connect them to the desktops.

In order to map the interface within the hypervisor, this line must be modified in the isardvdi.conf file:

# ------ Trunk port & vlans --------------------------------------------------
## Uncomment to map host interface name inside hypervisor container.
## If static vlans are commented then hypervisor will initiate an 
## auto-discovery process. The discovery process will last for 260
## seconds and this will delay the hypervisor from being available.
## So it is recommended to set also the static vlans.
## Note: It will create VlanXXX automatically on webapp. You need to
## assign who is allowed to use this VlanXXX interfaces.
#HYPERVISOR_HOST_TRUNK_INTERFACE=

## This environment variable depends on previous one. When setting
## vlans number comma separated it will disable auto-discovery and
## fix this as forced vlans inside hypervisor.
#HYPERVISOR_STATIC_VLANS=

Model: rtl8931, virtio, e1000
- It is more efficient to use virtio (which is a paravirtualized interface), while the e1000 or rtl are card simulations, and it is slower, although it is more compatible with older operating systems and it is not necessary to install drivers in the case of windows.
If you have a modern operating system, it works with virtio, but with the others that are interfaces. Old windows: rtl, e1000
QoS: limit up and down to 1 Mbps, unlimited

Boots¶

This section lists the different boot modes for a desktop.

If you do not have permissions, you cannot select a bootable iso and it is not allowed by default that users can map isos.

To give permissions, click on the icon

Network QoS¶

This section lists the limitations that can be placed on networks.

To add a limitation, click the button

And the fill out the form

Disk QoS¶

This section lists the limitations that can be placed on disks.

To add a disk limit, click the button

And the fill out the form

Remote VPNs¶

In this section you can add remote networks to desktops.

To add a remote network, press the button

And the fill out the form

Bookables¶

Priority¶

In this section you can create priorities depending on what is needed at that time. Here you can create rules with a certain maximum reservation time, number of desks, etc.

To add a new priority, press the button

And a dialog box will appear where you can fill in the fields, also allows you to share with other roles, categories, groups or users:

Name: The name that you want to give to the priority
Description: A short description to know a little more information about that priority
Rule: It is the rule that we assign to that priority, this is applied in the "Resources" section. It is important to note that if you want to apply more than one rule to a priority, you need to name them the same.
Priority: It is the priority given to the rule; the higher the number, the more priority it will have and the lower the number, the less it will have.
Forbid time: It is the time in advance that reservations cannot be made.
Max time: It is the maximum time of a reservation.
Max items: These are the maximum number of desks allowed to have this rule.