Setting up Appliance Web Interface

Applogic provides the ability for appliances to expose their own management interface that is accessible through the AppLogic Editor via the manage operation.

The Applogic editor looks for the appliance's management interface on a specific port number using the default interface of the appliance. The port number is configured by adding web:port to the console setting in the Virtualization Settings dialog. Currently, only port 80 can be used.

Within the appliance, the HTTP server must be configured to listen on the configured port (web:port) on the IP address of the default interface. This can be done through the Apache configuration file (e.g., Listen IP:port). The default interface IP address can be retrieved from one of the following files within the appliance depending upon the configuration mode that the appliance uses (as specified in the Virtualization Settings dialog):

• dhcp (APK): /var/run/applogic/appliance.sh
• volfix (older appliances from AppLogic 2.2 and prior): /etc/applogic.sh

At this time, for the mangement web GUI exposed by the appliance, all file references must be relative; absolute references to the document root will not work. In the next AppLogic release, this will be improved to allow absolute references.

-- Main.BeckyH - 02 May 2008