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Documentation Organization Goal

The goal for this documentation is to that we have a single source for each type of documentation that can be included in the releases, linked to from anywhere and easy to maintain. 

VCL Install Guide

  • Design Considerations, decisions to be made before starting a VCL install
  • Network diagram
  • Install procedures, dependences
  • Creating base environments
  • Setting up specific provisioning modules
    • xCAT
    • esx - uses vmware perl toolkit api to manage ESX and ESXi versions
    • vmware - uses vmware-cmd on host server to interact with VMWare Free server and ESX Standard Server
    • Lab - for standalone machines, only brokers access (does not support reloading or imaging)

VCL System Administration Guides

  • HowTo's
    • Web interface administrative tools
    • Add machines to computer table
  • Granting access through the Privilege tree
  • Group management 
  • Tying in web authentication - LDAP, shibboleth, etc
  • Creating web skins
  • How Image management works

VCL End-User Guides

 
VCL Developer Guidelines

  • Joining Apache VCL community
    • mailing lists
  • How to become a committer
  • Code Architecture
    • Web - php
    • Backend  - vcld perl
    • database schema - mysql
  • Creating additional modules for backend
    • Provisioning modules
    • OS modules
  • Web code structure - php
  • JIRA
    • Reporting bugs
    • Suggestions for improvements
  • Commits into apache vcl svn repository
    • Guidelines
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