How to reset account password for Xen Orchestra

This is a quick note on how to reset the password of user account on the open sourced Xen Orchestra. To reset the password of a user, of course, you’d need to know the user account, e.g. admin@admin.net. [root@xoa1 xo-server]# cd /opt/xo/xo-server [root@xoa1 xo-server]# ./dist/recover-account-cli.mjs --help xo-server-recover-account <user name or email> If the user does not exist, it is created, if it exists, updates its password, remove any configured OTP and resets its permission to Admin. [root@xoa1 xo-server]# ./dist/recover-account-cli.mjs admin@admin.net Password (leave empty for random): ******* user admin@admin.net has been successfully updated However, if you also forgot the account itself, you can create a new user with the same command. Here is an example to create a new account called admin: ...

February 8, 2025 · 1 min · 145 words · kenno

How to Deploy Xen Orchestra Appliance on XCP-ng

This is a quick note on how I got the Xen Orchestra Appliance (XOA) on a new XCP-ng server. I know there are many guides out there, and in fact this is not my original content, but I want to capture what I did to get it working. Here are the steps I performed on my server in order to install XOA: [14:16 xcpng ~]# bash -c "$(curl -sS http://xoa.io/deploy)" Welcome to the XOA auto-deploy script! Network settings: IP address? [dhcp] Your XOA will be started using DHCP xoa SSH account: Password? (disabled if empty) xoa account is disabled, to enable it later see https://xen-orchestra.com/docs/troubleshooting.html#set-or-recover-xoa-vm-password Importing XOA VM... Booting XOA VM... Waiting for your XOA to be ready… Your XOA is ready at https://192.168.1.207/ Default UI credentials: admin@admin.net/admin VM UUID: 19e56589-ed0d-5a24-c845-75b40b344f3b [14:24 xcpng ~]# Next, login to the XOA at https://192.168.1.207 using the default credential to connect the XCP-ng server this: ...

July 10, 2022 · 1 min · 211 words · kenno