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[Anne Gentle <anne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Sina,
The doc we have is found at
http://docs.openstack.org/folsom/openstack-compute/admin/content/about-the-dashboard.html#Launching_Instances_using_Dashboard.
The source is in http://github.com/openstack/openstack-manuals/ if you'd
like to pull it out into a true "user guide" -- a doc that has been on the
wish list for a while now.

Agreed on the need for the details for users, though we also have discussed
embedded help on the dashboard UI itself would be useful.

Your perspective of supporting Dashboard users would be valuable to lend to
an expanded user doc. Feel free to write up notes, an outline, or filled in
outline in any format and perhaps we can make it a priority.
Anne

On Monday, November 26, 2012, Sina Sadeghi wrote:

>  Hi list,
>
> Is there a current user guide for the dashboard in existence or will I be
> writing my own tonight? All I could find was a screencast on vimeo with
> someone from Rackspace demoing a rather old version of the dashboard!
>
> To a user who hasn't been exposed to cloud before, the model of:
>
> Login,
> Create keypair
> Modify security group
> Launch VM with security group and keypair specified
>
> is quite unfamiliar and generally results in support requests such as "I
> can't ping or ssh my instance", "I can't ssh into my instance it says
> permission denied", "I don't know the username for my instance".
>
>
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>
> --
> *Sina Sadeghi*
> Lead Cloud Engineer
>
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