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Accessing the Environment

From your local workstation, you will access a workshop Windows virtual machine from which you will perform the lab. This virtual machine is provided by the IBM Technology Zone service.

The directions for logging in to IBM Technology Zone and accessing your workshop virtual machine are given in the next section, but please read the following tips first:

From your local workstation

Your experience may vary, but in past workshops, the virtual machines seemed to work best in a Firefox browser on your local workstation. Running the virtual machines in Chrome sometimes resulted in an issue where your mouse pointer is not visible.

From within the workshop virtual machine

Regardless of which browser you use on your local workstation, within the virtual machine itself, Chrome has been set to the default browser. The lab works best in Chrome within the virtual machine.

Within your virtual machine, the workshop website has been set as your home page within Chrome. Once you are successfully logged in to your virtual machine, it is recommended for your convenience that you stop accessing this site from your local workstation but instead access this site from within your virtual machine.

Accessing your Virtual Machine

  1. Go here: https://techzone.ibm.com/my/workshops/student/67bde333ae3e9e263f4c586e

    Tip

    If it is more convenient for you, the above URL is represented by the following QR Code:

    qrcode_techzone.ibm.com

  2. If you are not currently logged in with your IBMid, you will be prompted to log in at a screen like below. If you do not already have an IBMid, the log in page should contain a link to allow you to create one. They are free and it only takes a few minutes to create it.

    IBMId-login

    Tip

    If the log in page does not have an obvious link for creating an IBMid, try here

  3. You should reach the workshop page. There will be a field where you are asked to enter the workshop password, as in this screen snippet:

    workshop-login

    Enter the workshop password provided by your instructor. For security reasons, this password is not listed here.

  4. Once you successfully enter the workshop password, you should be assigned an environment, as shown in the below screen snippet:

    environment-userid

    On this same page that shows the environment, near the bottom will be a large blue button, as shown below, which will allow you to access your workshop virtual machine within your browser.

    big-blue-button

    Important

    Take note of your environment number, as you should use that number as the last two digits of your userid for the lab. For example, if you were assigned environment 1, then you will use the userid user01 throughout the labs. If you were assigned environment 2, then you will use the userid user02 throught the labs. And so on.

  5. If prompted, log into the Windows virtual machine with username Administrator (which should already be set for you) and password: IBMDem0s (that's a zero). You may already be logged in when first accessing the VM.

Tip

These URLs are given within each lab section at the appropriate place. They are repeated here for your convenience. If you accidentally close your browser tab or window and lose your session, you can use the links here to easily resume your interrupted session.

If you cannot access the webpage for any of the platforms above, check that the Cisco Secure Client VPN is logged in on the Virtual Machine. If it is no longer logged in, please let the lab administrator know.

Please do not log off or reboot the Virtual Machine, as that will disconnect the VPN.

OpenShift, Instana, Turbonomic, and CP4AIOps credentials:

Usernames and passwords are the same for all of the platforms used in this tutorial.

second username for the Turbonomic lab

The Turbonomic lab uses two userids- the usernn listed below, plus a second userid usernn-actions, where 'nn' is your student number. The password for this second userid is the same as that used for usernn. The Turbonomic lab instructions will tell you when to use each of these two userids.

Environment ID NN Username Password
1 01 user01 p@ssw0rd
2 02 user02 p@ssw0rd
3 03 user03 p@ssw0rd
4 04 user04 p@ssw0rd
5 05 user05 p@ssw0rd
6 06 user06 p@ssw0rd
7 07 user07 p@ssw0rd
8 08 user08 p@ssw0rd
9 09 user09 p@ssw0rd
10 10 user10 p@ssw0rd
11 11 user11 p@ssw0rd
12 12 user12 p@ssw0rd
13 13 user13 p@ssw0rd
14 14 user14 p@ssw0rd
15 15 user15 p@ssw0rd
16 16 user16 p@ssw0rd
17 17 user17 p@ssw0rd
18 18 user18 p@ssw0rd
19 19 user19 p@ssw0rd
20 20 user20 p@ssw0rd