QuickStartGuide

Thank you for choosing Diginode Networks. This guide is to help you through your initial activation of a Diginode server. If you encounter problems or discrepancies in this document, please do not hesistate in contacting us. We will do our best to correct the situation as soon as possible.

• You should have received a email containing the login information to our management system. Use the Client ID that we sent you and the password that you chose at the signup page to login.
• After a successful login, you should see a server list towards the middle of the page. Your new server should be in that list. The server is not installed at the moment, we need to go into the server edit page to start the installation. Click on the button "More Options".
• This is the server edit page. Here you can change the name and description of the server, plus a conduct a variety of administration tasks. RIght? now, we want to install a new operating system on the server. To do so, scroll down to towards the end of the page to the section named "Install server with new OS".
• Select the OS you want to install and press install. You will be presented with a confirmation box, click on "Confirm Install". You will see a dialog returning if the installation command was sent sucessfully or not. Click on the "Return'" button to go back to the server eidt page.
• Back at the server edit page, scroll down to the section named "Recent Server Actions and Network Status" which contains the status window in a embedded frame. The status window refreshes ever few seconds and tells you if the installation has been completed yet. Once the installation has been completed, we can proceed to start the server.
• To start the server, there is a section named "Server Options and Actions". Here, you will find the "Start/Restart" button. Click on it and confirm the server start.
• When you get back to the server edit page, scroll back to the status section. When the server has finished starting up, the "Network" and "SSH" sections will turn from red to green. When SSH is back up, you can now proceed to change the root or administrator password of the system.
• Scroll to the "Change root / administrator password" section of the server edit page. Enter the new root password twice and press the "Change Password" button. It will take a few seconds to complete your command. As usual, you can check the command status in the status window.
• Once the command has been successfully completed, you can now login to your server with your favorite SecureShell (SSH) Client.
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