Manage VMware secrets¶
In F5 VNFM, click , click 
next to each of the
following secrets to edit the values for your project. Doing so enables your blueprint to access these values as needed,
during orchestration, without exposing the plain text values.
Important
To avoid deployment issues, verify that you enter these secrets correctly. For example, remove any extra spaces in the keystone secrets. Click 
to view the secret value (if you have the correct permissions).
| BIG-IP | Notes |
|---|---|
| agent_key_private | The private, PEM-encoded, SSH key for connecting to BIG-IP instances. Browse to the local copy of the private key using the Get secret value from file option. |
| vshpere_agent_key_public | The ssh key used to access the vSphere REST API. |
| bigip_admin_password | Set to the desired password for the default BIG-IP admin account. Default value is admin. |
| bigip_root_password | Set to the desired password for the default BIG-IP root account. Default value is default. |
| bigip_username | Default value is admin. |
| bigip_root_user | Root user name of the BIG-IP. You must add this bigip_root_user secret to your manager. |
| BIG-IQ | Notes |
|---|---|
| bigiq_password | Set to the password for the BIG-IQ system used for licensing BIG-IP VEs in the deployment. Default value is admin. |
| bigiq_username | Set to the user name for the BIG-IQ system used for licensing BIG-IP VEs in the deployment. Default value is admin. |
| Keystone | Notes |
|---|---|
| internal_ca_cert | An auto-generated, unique, CA certificate created by F5 VNF Manager, when you first launch your VNFM. |
| keystone_password | Set to the password for the account with access to the OpenStack tenant where you will deploy blueprint resources. |
| keystone_tenant_name | Set to the OpenStack tenant/project name where you will deploy blueprint resources. |
| keystone_url | Set to the v2 authentication URL of the OpenStack environment where you will deploy blueprint resources; for example, Tip Avoid adding any extra spaces at the beginning and at the end of this value. In OpenStack, find this URL in the row. |
| keystone_username | Set to the user name of the account with access to the OpenStack tenant where you will deploy blueprint resources. |
| VNF Manager | Notes |
|---|---|
| manager_rest_host | Set to the internal IP address of hostname of the VNF Manager. Recommended setting, 127.0.0.1. |
| manager_rest_password | Set to the password for the VNF Manager. Default value is admin. |
| manager_rest_username | Set to the user name of the VNF Manager. Default value is admin. |
| manager_rest_tenant | The VNFM tenant/project name. Default value is default_tenant. |
| Nagiorest | Notes |
|---|---|
| nagiosrest_pass | Set to the desired password for the Nagios monitoring instance. Default value is testpass. |
| nagiosrest_user | Set to the desired user name for the Nagios monitoring instance. Default value is testuser. |
| Region | Notes |
|---|---|
| Region | Set to the OpenStack region where you will deploy blueprint resources. Default value is nova. |
| VMware vSphere | Notes |
|---|---|
| vsphere_allow_insecure | Set to True to ignore self-signed certificates on the vSphere API. Set to False, if a valid CA-signed certificate is configured for the vSphere API. |
| vsphere_auto_placement | Enable this setting to specify whether to use vSphere’s auto-placement instead of the VNFM plugin. Set to true if you are using clusters. |
| vsphere_resource_pool_name | The name of the resource pool in your VMware vCenter Server. |
| vsphere_username | The username@domain.local used to log into the VMware vShpere Web client. |
| vsphere_vm_folder_name | Name of the folder where you store VMs and templates in your VMware vCenter Server. |
| vsphere_template_library_name | Name of the content library where templates are stored in your VMware vCenter Server. |
| vsphere_port | Port number you assigned the VMware vCenter Server (default value 443) |
| vsphere_password | The password used to log into the VMware vShpere API. |
| vsphere_host | The IP address of your VMware vCenter Server. |
| vsphere_host_name | The host name of your VMware vCenter Server. |
| vsphere_datacenter_name | Name of the VMware datacenter. |
| vsphere_datastore_name | Name of the data store cluster. |
For more information, see use the secret store topic.
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