Application Management (For Application Images Only)

FlexusL instances provide various featured application images. An application image contains the underlying OS (Ubuntu 22.04), application software, initialization data, and runtime environment required by the application. You can use application images to quickly deploy applications without upload and installation operations.

After creating a cloud server using an application image, you can manage the applications on the dashboard and O&M page provided by the application image.

Dashboard: An application image provides a visualized dashboard where you can easily configure applications, such as managing software, plug-ins, and databases, after login.
O&M page: The O&M page for application images is used to store initial passwords of dashboards, upload files, and configure domain names to provide O&M support for application deployment.

The differences between the login modes, initial usernames, and passwords of FlexusL instances, dashboard, and O&M page are listed in the following table.

**Table 1** Differences between FlexusL instances, dashboard, and O&M page
Item	Login Mode	Initial Username and Password
FlexusL	Log in to the system through the console or other modes. For details, see Login Modes.	The default username of a Windows FlexusL instance is Administrator, and that of a Linux FlexusL instance is root. FlexusL instances do not have initial passwords. You need to reset the passwords on the FlexusL console.
Dashboard	Before logging in to an application dashboard for the first time, initialize the application preinstalled in the image. Then you can log in to the application dashboard on the FlexusL console.	The initial usernames and passwords of application dashboards vary depending on application images. For details, see Best Practices for FlexusL. The dashboards of some application images, such as the WordPress application image, do not have initial usernames and passwords. You can set them during application initialization. The dashboards of some application images, such as the Moodle application image, have initial usernames and passwords stored on the O&M page. To obtain the initial usernames and passwords of dashboards of some application images such as the BT Panel application image, you need to log in to servers and run specific commands.
O&M page	In the address bar of a local browser, enter http://EIP:9000 to log in to the application O&M page.	The username and password for logging in to the O&M page are the same as those for logging in to FlexusL instances.

Initializing an Application

During the initialization, you need to set the information about the application. Initialization operations vary depending on application images. Table 2 lists the application images and their initialization operations.

**Table 2** Application images and their initialization operations
Application Image	Initialization
BT panel	Initialize the BT Panel
WordPress	Initialize WordPress
Odoo	Initialize Odoo
Matomo	Initialize Matomo
Portainer	Initialize Portainer
GitLab	Initialize GitLab
Prestashop	Initialize Prestashop
Superset	Initialize Superset
Nextcloud	Initialize Nextcloud
SRS	Initialization not involved.

Logging In to the Application Dashboard

For the Prestashop application image, log in to the dashboard using the encrypted address generated when you log in to the dashboard for the first time. For details, see Initialize Prestashop.

For application images other than Prestashop, perform the following steps to log in to the application dashboard:

Log in to the FlexusL console and click a resource card to go to the instance details page.
On the Overview page, in the Image area, click Access to access the application image dashboard.
Figure 1 Accessing the dashboard

The initial username and password for an application dashboard vary depending on the application images. Different application images support different application management operations. For details, see Best Practices for FlexusL for the corresponding application images.
- The dashboards of some application images, such as the WordPress application image, do not have initial usernames and passwords. You can set them during application initialization.
- The dashboards of some application images, such as the Moodle application image, have initial usernames and passwords stored on the O&M page.
- To obtain the initial usernames and passwords of dashboards of some application images such as the BT Panel application image, you need to log in to servers and run specific commands.