Chapter 17: InCenter Administration

This section describes the administration of the InCenter system itself. Instead of using the InCenter CLI, the shell of the host operating system will be used to perform most of the tasks in this section. However, as explained in the next section, file transfers can be performed under the control of InCenter or outside of it.

17.1. Host OS CLI Access

To perform administrative tasks via the host operating system, the system's CLI shell can be accessed using any of the following methods:

  • Via the hypervisor console for the virtual machine running the server.

  • By connecting a console to the console port of the virtual machine. A single console port is configured in the InCenter virtual machine image distribution.

  • Over a network connection using an SSH client. Connection is made to the same IP address used for InCenter access but using the port number 2222.

    By default, this SSH access is disabled. It can be enabled by entering the following Linux CLI commands, using either the local console or hypervisor console described above:

    $ sudo systemctl enable ssh 
    $ sudo systemctl start ssh

The Default Login Credentials

The default username and password credentials for host operating access are the following:

  • Username: administrator

  • Password: administrator

After logging in, the user will be in the default folder /home/administrator. All InCenter system files are contained in a subfolder to this called mgmtsystem (in other words, the path /home/administrator/mgmtsystem).