Tips and Tricks
How to thoroughly remove/uninstall VERDE rpm's
Product Line: VERDE If you're using VERDE rpm's, instead of starting over from the server operating system, simply perform the following steps to uninstall and remove all traces of your previous VERDE install: yum remove VERDE-core.x86_64 rm -rf ...
What does Shutdown, Abort and Revert mean on the VERDE Management Console?
Product Line: VERDE The following article is specific to customers using the Verde platform and Verde Management Console to control VERDE virtual desktops. This is NOT for the user of the vSpace platform. You will find three buttons on the VERDE ...
VERDE Error Code Definitions
Product Line: VERDE Following are the defined error codes in VERDE. * Error codes should be smaller than 127. * Positive values below 10 are reserved for non-failure exits. * Some values are returned only by shell scripts. */ #define ...
Important Considerations When Using NETCFG Import
Product Line: VERDE The following are VERY important naming and usage conventions that must be adhered to when using NETCFG.CSV Import. When using Active Directory credentials, enter the Login ID in the netcfg using the format: ...
To Obtain a Picture of your VERDE Network Configuration
Product Line: VERDE To obtain a picture of your VERDE server's network configuration, perform the following commands: cd /usr/lib/verde/bin ./verde-dump-net-config # # NETWORK0 # devName = NETWORK0 devType = OVS BRIDGE vendorID = ...
Manually Mounting NFS Shared Storage... Customized Partitioning Is Required during Centos/RHEL Install
Product Line: VERDE Before starting, run the following on the home server as root (not the NAS/NFS): # yum -y install nfs-utils nfs-utils-lib After mounting NFS share and creating entry in /etc/fstab and installing VERDE, files are created on ...
How to Determine the CENTOS/RedHat version and Build/Release you're using
Product Line: VERDE A quick and easy way to determine what Version of Centos your using is... Access the command line via the Terminal and type cat /etc/centos-release as follows: [root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/centos-release CentOS release 6.9 ...
Is the VERDE, VDI Server VT-Enabled?
Product Line: VERDE To ensure your server is properly set to "VT-enabled" (required to run VERDE), run the command lscpu from the Linux command line as follows (see the value in red text): ~]# lscpu Architecture: x86_64 CPU op-mode(s): ...
Importing a CSV file (netcfg.csv) to Assign a Specific User to a Specific, Static IP (,,,)
Product Line: VERDE Following are details on how to implement Static IP addresses using a Text import file. (see attachment) NOTE: The 1st line of the CSV file is for documentation purposes and MUST NOT be included when you ‘Import’ the file into ...
Can I run Verde on ESX?
Product Line: VERDE VERDE uses the KVM hypervisor, which requires full access to the virtualization Technology (VT) feature of the server to run virtual desktops. VERDE cannot run on ESX. Notes: 1. You can run a VERDE Sever in Cluster Master and ...
The 10-Minute LDAP Tutorial - Automating System Administration with Perl
by David N. Blank-Edelman The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is the protocol[138] for accessing the preeminent directory services deployed in the world today. Over time, system administrators are likely to find themselves dealing with ...
How to turn off network level authentication (NLA) in Windows 8.1
Product Line: VERDE The Remote Desktop Protocol in Windows provides a graphical interface to the user, when he connects his or her computer to another computer over a network connection, using the Remote Desktop Connection client software. At the ...
Troubleshooting - VERDE Log files - Support Report
Product Line: VERDE To help troubleshoot system issues, each VERDE component logs information in its respective log file, there are log files for: The Host/Server activity The VERDE Management Console The VERDE Services The guest/virtual desktop ...
VERDE Menu is Unreadable from a Remote Terminal
Product Line: VERDE ISSUE: When accessing the VERDE menu from a remote terminal session, the menu is unreadable or badly formatted. This can be due to a bad setup of your remote terminal session, such as having TERM configuration set to VT100. An ...
VERDE Console Reporting - What does %Utilization mean?
Product Line: VERDE ISSUE: The purpose of this parameter available in the reporting section of the VERDE Management Console is to provide information about the system load. The %Utilization value is calculated with this formula. Utilization% = (L ...
Tomcat Startup Failure - Buffer Overflow Error - Specific to Non-Bare Metal - VERDE
Product Line: VERDE ISSUE: The VERDE User Console and the VERDE Management Console are not available. When investigating on the VERDE Server(s) it appears that Tomcat failed to start. When attempting to restart Tomcat, it fails to start with ...
Restarting Tomcat Services
Product Line: VERDE ISSUE: VERDE uses a web application server (Tomcat) to manage its web services and VERDE Management Console. The service is automatically started when VERDE starts or restarts, but there may be situations when the service ...
HTTP 500 status JAVA out of memory error - When Launching the VERDE Management Console
Product Line: VERDE ISSUE: The user receives an "HTTP 500 status JAVA out of memory error" JAVA out of memory error in the VERDE Management Console log. This situation may be caused because the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is reaching its limit. The ...
Secure VERDE Isolated Gateway install and configuration Instructions
Product Line: VERDE These instructions are for each VERDE Gateway host and each VERDE Cluster Master candidate. (Note: If 3 VERDE Gateway hosts and 2 VERDE Cluster Master candidates are being configured, 2 "authorized_keys" files will be required ...
Troubleshooting Installation Errors on VERDEOS Bare Metal
Product Line: VERDE ISSUE: When configuring a new VERDEOS installation, you might encounter the following error message when attempting to start VERDE services from the command line: ERROR: "verde-config -u -f /tmp/vmAnswerFile" failed with ...
How to Reset the mcadmin Password
Product Line: VERDE ISSUE: The mcadmin(1) password has been forgotten or overwritten prohibiting access to the VERDE Management Console. SOLUTION: Please perform the following.... Copy the attached script "reset-password-zilker.pl" to the ...
win4-sessions Status Codes
Product Line: VERDE VERDE features a CLI command that outputs all the sessions running in the server's environment. The command, win4-sessions, can found in the /usr/lib/verde/bin/ directory. The output containts PID, USER name, CONFIG name, Image ...
How to set WALLPAPER for all Domain Users
Produce Line: VERDE ISSUE: The VERDE Administrator wants to control the wallpaper that Domain users get in their virtual desktops SOLUTION: Best practice is to not change Default Domain Policy. Instead, you should create a new group policy (GPO) ...
Create customized default user settings for new local users
Product Line: VERDE ISSUE: Administrator wants to have his image configured so that all of his local users have a configured customized image set up for them when they log in for the first time. An example of this would be having Firefox ...
What is the Installed Version of VERDE - Non VERDEOS?
Product Line: VERDE To determine the version of the installed VERDE package, on a NON-bare metal installed server run: rpm-based distribution: rpm -q VERDE deb-based (Ubuntu) installation: dpkg -l |grep VERDE This will return a version, such as ...
VERDE - Basic Troubleshooting Guide
Product Line: VERDE This is a basic troubleshooting guide put together at the end of 2012. This lists the most common "mistakes" or issues that we see on new deployments. As the subject says, it is basic, but may still be useful for someone new to ...
What are the VERDE Installation Methods?
Product Line: VERDE VERDE provides two installation methods: Traditional installation (rpm and deb) Bare metal installation The traditional VERDE installation installs on an existing or new Linux installation. A bare metal installation installs a ...
How to find which version of VERDE you have installed
Product Line: VERDE How to determine which build and version of VERDE you are running. Bare-Metal installation: There are two ways to verify the installed version and build number of a VERDE Server: The top of the VERDE Menu displays the version and ...
In the Live Sessions Reporting page, what do RUI and SPI refer to?
Product Line: VERDE Resource Utilization Index (RUI) Overview The high level requirement is to aggregate virtual machine consumption rates for various areas such as CPU, memory (especially if ballooning is implemented), Virtual Network, Display ...